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Originally Posted by 911pcars
"...Not a lot of brown recluse spiders in Cali...."
If I can believe a friend who volunteers as a guide in the insect dept. at the LA County Museum of Natural History, he reports the only brown recluse in CA is in a display case at the museum, and it's dead, demised, past on, no more, ceased to be, it's expired and gone to meet it's maker, this is a stiff, berift of life, it rests in peace. It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex....., (oops, sorry. This sequed into Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" skit).
Jeff. Whatever caused the bite shouldn't be as serious as a recluse or even a widow (from others' comments). Hope you feel better soon.
craigster59. Groucho Marx nose/glasses. LOL. No mercy. That was cruel.
Sherwood
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They do exist here. They are hard to find, but don't crawl under a house and put you hand up on a girder in a dark place, or you might find one. Phone company guys get into it with these rascals more than they want. A BR is probably not what walked up on your bed and took a sample of your nose. In fact, it my not have been a spider at all.
Recently, there has been a bad outbreak of bedbugs. Now, bedbugs have always been thought of as bugs from a dirty, unkempt household. That is not necessarily the whole picture. If you have been traveling recently, you may have brought one or two home. They don't always live in the bedding either. They will take up residence in that picture on your nightstand or behind the baseboard. They are not as small as you might think; about 1/5th of an inch. They are easily spotted when they are out on the prowl. Their bite can be just as you describe.