r/mildlydangerous • u/Colonel_FuzzyCarrot • Jul 04 '18
Brown Recluse. 3rd time this week one of these bastards has fallen into my lap while watching tv.
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Jul 04 '18
This is a little more than mildly dangerous. We have them all over S. Indiana, I just killed one in my basement 2 days ago. At least I can recognize the threat and stomp them, my dog might not be so lucky.
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u/TrOuBLeDbOyXD Jul 06 '18
Damn bro, I'm guessing these are poisonous? I've had an incident where I failed to kill a scary looking spider. Probably not poisonous since I live in Canada but needless to say I spent the night at a hotel that night.
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u/Colonel_FuzzyCarrot Jul 07 '18
The bite will cause serious injury or even death. There's no antivenom available. It typically goes un-noticed at first, as it's pretty painless. After that, buckle up.
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u/drforrester-tvsfrank Jul 19 '18
90% percent of bites heal on there own, only 3% require skin grafts, and there has never been a brown recluse fatality.
That being said, the bites are horrificly painful, heal slowly, leave a large, oozing open wound that is susceptible to infections and leave a large and potentially disfiguring scar. So it won’t kill you but it’ll make you wish it had.
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u/thelvegod Jul 16 '18
I've been bitten by these a few times. They don't itch or hurt, they start off looking like a pimple with a white head. You ignore it and all of a sudden you have a gaping, oozing hole in your leg. Mine was about a fingers thickness and deep as your second knuckle.
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u/Encree Jul 04 '18
where it other legs at