Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/28/brown-recluse-spider-extracted.html
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That’s one social brown recluse. Most of the time, they live up to their name any time I encounter one they just nope the heck out of my way.
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Each female produces several egg sacs over a period of two to three months, from May to July, with approximately fifty eggs in each sac. The eggs hatch in about one month
Time will tell, how will fifty spiderlings react to being blocked in by cotton wool?
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Okayyyy I’ll be sleeping with ear plugs for the rest of my life.
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We get them here in Kansas. I usually check my shoes before putting them on. A couple months ago I woke up and threw on a pair of shorts that were (foolishly) left on the floor next to the bed. I went downstairs and suddenly felt something crawling on my thigh. I gave the shorts a quick shake and a brown recluse about the size of a quarter dropped on the floor. Seems like they always hide in pants. I have two friends that have been bitten; one guy on his pecker and a lady who got it on the backside.
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Given the photos I’ve seen of the necrosis that sets in even when treated quickly, how did the guy’s pecker end up?
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Guessing that it didn’t for some time.
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So… the spider crawled into a woman’s ear, but didn’t bite her?
That’s simultaneously horrifying and fortunate for the woman in question.
I already sleep with silicone ear plugs in because the walls are thin and my neighbors can be inconsiderate… but this story gives me a whole new practical reason.
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A cotton ball in the ears? That will just attract weevils!
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Edit: I laughed!
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Ack. Also, now that she’s protecting here ear holes, what’s to stop the next one from crawling in her nose? Breathing? Maybe.
Now I’m picturing the other brown recluse spiders mounting a rescue party, once they realize “Fred” hasn’t been seen lately.
“I swear he went in here, but now it’s blocked off. Let’s all head around this way. Come on guys!” tromp tromp tromp.
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Here you go, just wear this.
Nighty night!
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Brown recluses are notorious for not biting unless eating or being squashed.
Even picking them up and moving them they typically do not bite.
Spiders in general rarely bite humans, they are just not that in to us.
https://www.livescience.com/37974-he-surprising-cause-of-most-spider-bites.html
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