This is a picture of a brown recluse. They are everywhere in Missouri. Frank and Dianne have lots living in their attic, and Frank captured this one so that Chris Garrison could photograph it. You can see the characteristic violin shape on its back that has also caused it to be called the fiddle spider.
Last week when Ed was in hospital, his roommate had a baffling skin ulcer. The flesh was being eaten away, and doctors did not know why. Ed suggested that it might be a brown recluse bite, even though Brooklyn is well out of the spider's range. The doctors treated it as such, and the man, a construction worker, was released the next day.
Told you there were up north. Told you. Ed saves the day. Again.
ReplyDeleteDidn't you hear the story about the mail man(woman I think) who got bitten while reaching into a mail box...somewhere up north? almost died in hospital... definitely Brown Recluse ....so when I reach into my mail box ,...I watch out...oh yeah there WAS a spider ( that looked like a brown crab) in amongst the letters just yesterday YUK!!!!
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