Comments on: Brown Spider

By: hannah mullen

hannah mullen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:13:37 +0000

I had this same problem I got bit by this spider at tumbling it didn’t look bad but was affecting my whole leg it may have been a big spider and tiny bite but a remarkable pain that I will never forget.Please if u guys go to tumbling at five star in northern Kentucky please try to make sure they cleaned that pit and that if one of your friends say i just saw a big spider ya-hi big please trust them believe them.

By: Julz

Julz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:40:34 +0000

I’ve found several brown crab-like spiders in my house this week. they were all approximately 1inch in size and was semi slow and walked like a crab. one was crawling on my little boy and now im afraid to put him back in his bad. If i find another one i will take a pic. Im trying (unsuccessfully) to find info about it online. If you have any info, please contact me. thank you.
~Julz

By: Monice Sharay Dismuke

Monice Sharay Dismuke — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:06:41 +0000

i dont have a picture but i been bittin by the brown sprider i didnt feel the bite when it bite me i saw it one day and throught it was a a relgualer bug bite so i wasnt really worried but my leg started to hurt were i couldnt ever walk on it so i went to the doctor and they told me i came just in time before it had made it to the rest of my leg but it was horrible and i hope not to get bite by any sprider again but people there yall got to be careful no of days people dieing getting bit and stuff like that just be careful

By: julien gore

julien gore — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:11:19 +0000

I found a spider hiding in the recess of a sliding door to my backyard.

It is rather large, slightly bigger then a quarter, brown and lightly hairy, and has a violin shape on its abdomen(topside), not its back. I know the brown recluse has a violin, but was told its only on its back, not its abdomen.I was not bitten, but would like to educate myself for future encounters.
Anyone know what kind that is? or is it a different kind of recluse?

Any help is appreciated. I live in phoenix Arizona, It took nearly a dozen electric fly swatter hits to kill it, i wanted to preserve it for pictures. Will uplod some in a couple days.

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:12:55 +0000

my son came home from school with a blister on his eyebrow, 3 days later it is large and red and getting bigger i took him to the doctor and she tells me it is a skin infection but when i came home and moved his bed i found a spider that closely resembles a brown recluse he says it doesn’t hurt and it doesn’t bother him at all. the doctor said if it is even a spider bite they would treat it the same way . but i am still worried. i kept the spider (dead of course, got to love pledge!)

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:14:05 +0000

My father found a huge brown shaprly jointed legs, definate hairs, flat octagonshaped body, small abdomen, light brown on sides and hour glass shape inthe middle of it, turtle shape looking pattern to the flat body and thick with furry looking black things on his fangsnot bulbs like brown or hobo looking thiink with black furry tips on them mean and and transperant in th efirst joints of there legs pleas ereply we have no clue neve rseeen one like it. CJ

By: betty Muhlhauser

betty Muhlhauser — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:39:17 +0000

I have been fighting these little brown devils for several years now. They like woodpiles, porches, but don’t hesitate to move into the house. You get an itchy spot that looks like fang marks. 2 little dots and if you scratch it, watch out, the poison spreads and the sore just gets worse. I usually get 2 days of headache that won’t go away no matter what medication I take and 2 days of mild diarrhea. Getting the yard sprayed on a regular basis helps, but if you have houses around you that are vacant or not maintained they do and will come back. Just thought someone might benefit from this info. I’ve become an expert.

By: Deb

Deb — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:04:08 +0000

Hello,we live in Peoria,Il. county side, have six acres, we have these big black spiders, they get into the house, they also run and are able to stand atop the pool water,tried to hold them under the water, doesn’t phase them.They are fast, going to get exterminator out this year, they tend to come inside when it cools down outside.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:39:26 +0000

I was bitten tonight by a spider that looks like the picture on here of the recluse it was alot smaller than I expected it to be I felt it bite it stung and now itches there is no mark yet I tried to use the spider to compare but ended up squashing it cause it was still moving and they really creep me out I have noticed a lot of spiders lurking around my home which I moved into yesterday….YUCK!!!!

What symptoms should I look for and be worried about?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:40:37 +0000

My daughter was bitten before 9pm Aug 26th. Was a quarter sized red mark. I marked it in case it was a brown recluse. In the mornign i woke up and it grew half an inch at 9am. After looking up bites and talking to other bite victims I called the hospital and made a same day appt. well an hour after making the appt. i noticed the red area was swollen and buldging a bit. So i decided to hit the ER instead. While there it grew anouther half inch from the morning.

After waiting a few hours I was told it was a Brown spider bite,was given antibiotics for her and sent home to wait it out.

the red area is slowly growing slowly. So im gonna watch it even more. Its the size of my palm now, hot to touch and tender.

I have found a Grass or wolf spider, a small dark brownish redish spider and the brown recluse in my home so they are all suspects of who bit my 3 yr old girl.