I live in a hundred-odd year-old house in Eastern Kansas, and I have them. Just was reading the wiki article on the little devils, and came across this sentence:
"In 2001, more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders were removed from a heavily infested home in Kansas, yet the four residents who had lived there for years were never harmed by the spiders, despite many encounters with them." I don't know whether to feel better or worse. I see them from time to time. Wonder how many I have? Ick. m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- From: MiguelRoig [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:07 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The "Real" Spiderman I have always been rather indifferent to spiders and would even become somewhat annoyed when my wife and kids would complain about the presence of a spider in the house (e.g., Daddly Long-legs or some other seemingly innocuous species) that needed to be killed or, as I would do, simply toss it out the house. I admit to have only been vaguely acquainted with the Brown Recluse, but after reading Ken's post I decided to look it up to see if they can be found up here (NJ) and ... damn!!!! I'm glad I did. There is an informative audio in this webpage, http://www.brown-recluse.com/index.html, though about midstream it becomes an infomertial about a remedy. There are also some nasty-looking pictures of spider bites that went bad and the rest of the site has some additional useful information. The Penn State site, http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/brown-recluse-spiders, is likely to contain more reliable information. But, all in all this stuff is downright scary. Thanks for posting about your experience, Ken. Miguel ________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by Baker University ("BU") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18637 or send a blank email to leave-18637-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
