(09-04-2013, 07:18 PM)L Verge Wrote: I also gave one of the spiders the wrong name. Instead of hermit spiders, they are brown recluse. They especially love to hide under leaves, pine needles, piles of wood, etc. We took one of my Sunday School classes on a camping trip many long years ago, and one of the chaperones got bitten on the finger by a recluse. The ER doctor ended up having to cut the man's wedding ring off because his hand swelled so badly..
Don't lose sleep over a Brown recluse spider. In a fascinating 2002 entomology journal article, over 2,000 of them were found in a Kansas home where a family of four was living. No one got bit. If you're ever in the area, you could probably visit the house: 8415 Clare Rd, Lenexa, KS.
