bug bite leads to ER

[azasadny]

Originally posted by Drdogface
I have been told by MANY pest control guys and an entomologist or two that the Brown Recluse Spider does not exist in Calif. I had a bite a few years ago and was told it was the BR but later told it was an Assassin Bug. Nasty bite for sure.

I was bitten by a Brown Recluse spider on Camp Pendleton, CA while I was in the USN in 1989. We found the spider's nest in the window frame of the building I worked in and we took a few specimens to the authorities to show them and they accused us of bringing them from somewhere else. I was lucky and only ended up with a hole in my back, down to the muscle but a field worker in Fallbrook, CA lost an arm and almost died, so there are Brown Recluse spiders in southern CA.

[kach22i]

I'll take Michigan's snow and ice over those creepy crawlies any day.

[Rondinone]

Originally posted by Racerbvd
Didn't end up liike this did it??

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b466093a94

That's the stuff of nightmares.