normal skin flora

[Structo]

I had no idea that there was not really a medical treatment of the recluse bite.

That would be scary getting bit on an important part of the male anatomy.
Even a finger!

I heard that they didn't used to be in my area but in the mid to late 80's they started appearing.

I'm not sure which spider web was used but they used to use a type of spider silk for the cross hairs on rifle scopes.
It was said it was many times stronger than steel in that regard.

The thing I see about the Brown Recluse, is it looks like just about any other spider around here.

Here's praying that the only contact anybody has with them is on the bottom of our shoes.

[drhulsey]

... Here's praying that the only contact anybody has with them is on the bottom of our shoes...

Careful It might become an endangered species and require protrection

but with the weather changing.....

Don't worry. One of the leading climate change advocates admitted that it hasn't been warming significantly in the last 8 years; another one said the Himalayan glaciers aren't melting, after all; and another admitted that the Medieval Warming Period may have been significantly warmer than we are predicted to be in the near future.
You may be safe... for now

[CapnCrunch]

Whoa......

Careful there Doc, if you keep spouting "blasphemy" like that about the religion of "climate change", you might just get burned at the stake......wait I'm thinking of the dark ages when the unscrupulous used fear, torture and baseless superstition to subjugate the masses. Nevermind, carry on!

[Andy Le Blanc]

I'm surprised that its so hard for so many to accepted even the possibility
of even barest thread of responsibility for the species .

[Structo]

Andy did they turn the morphine drip up a bit?

[Andy Le Blanc]

all the way.....

[drhulsey]

... if you keep spouting "blasphemy" like that...

I'm only repeating what the UN's own IPCC people are saying, now

I'm surprised that its so hard for so many to accepted even the possibility of even barest thread of responsibility for the species .

I'm an animal and nature lover. I don't hunt. Hell, I don't even kill the Black Widow spiders we have in abundance around our house. I also a have a degree in biology and have never understood the insistence on thinking man's prevention of extinction was more natural that causing it