quote:Kingwood is where I'll be staying, that's where my family lives.
Hey, I used to live in Kingwood, and I went to Kingwood High School for ninth and tenth grade. It was a long time ago, but I still have friends who live in Kingwood. Do you know any Jensens? There are 11 kids in the family, and the youngest would be about your age. They live in Kingwood.
I used to live in Forest Cove. Do you know where that is? My aunt still lives there.
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quote:Originally posted by Alcon: Ok, color is useless in identifying spiders, we need more detail. More description. Size, number of eyes and organization, hair, apparent weight.
I don't exactly sit around and have tea with these things. Size? The body alone, or the body with the legs? Maybe the size of a dime, or a tad smaller. Number of eyes? I have no clue. It didn't have hair. And if one of those things ever crawls on my bathroom scale, my bathroom scale is going out the window.
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My co-worker is at the Hospital, even as we type, while her son has surgery on two brown recluse bites that he suffered last Thursday. They didn't take him to the doctor until Monday. Here at work, we have 1 or 2 industrial injury claims a year from recluse bites. The critters are not native to this area, but have come inside of shipping containers from around the world. (they are not the only transplants in the valley) And have been established over the years. In any case, if a brown recluse bite is likely, you really need to get medical attention as quickly as possible. Unfourtunatly you are usually not sure. They are very shy, and most bites, in our experience, come from picking up items, like clothing, in which they have hidden. You almost never see the spider, and the bite is not immidiately painful. The Kid in the first sentence was using the common teen-age practice of storing his clothing on the floor of his bedroom.
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quote:Kingwood is where I'll be staying, that's where my family lives.
Hey, I used to live in Kingwood, and I went to Kingwood High School for ninth and tenth grade. It was a long time ago, but I still have friends who live in Kingwood. Do you know any Jensens? There are 11 kids in the family, and the youngest would be about your age. They live in Kingwood.
I used to live in Forest Cove. Do you know where that is? My aunt still lives there.
I don't know any Jensens personally, but I did know there were some there during my time at KHS. That doesn't necessarily mean they were the same family though.
As for Forest Cove, I know where that is. I have at least one friend that lives in that area. My family lives in Greentree, sort of towards the back of Kingwood.
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quote:Originally posted by pH: Speaking of poisonous creatures JT, do you know when Creepy Spikey Evil Caterpiller of Doom Season starts?
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Hmm. Excellent question. I usually like to discover that it's stinging caterpillar season by stepping on one. Barefoot.
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quote:Originally posted by pH: Speaking of poisonous creatures JT, do you know when Creepy Spikey Evil Caterpiller of Doom Season starts?
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Hmm. Excellent question. I usually like to discover that it's stinging caterpillar season by stepping on one. Barefoot.
That's what I did. And then my leg swelled up. I know it has to be coming up soon...those things are evil. A couple of them got into my friend's room and stung him while he was sleeping. Of course, he woke up from the pain and discovered them then.
Dad did notice fewer spiders in his living area after bombing the place. We never opened the door again until this spring...to toss down another can of poison.
I think this particular poison is good for controlling spiders, but I don't have its details.
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My garage is a breeding ground for just the sort of spiders that give me the shivering-wossnames...
Go figure, I'm 190 pounds of raw manflesh with and I own various powertools too, but those eight legged thingamies do for me. What a wuss!
Fortunatley, up here on Mount Maven, the number of poisonous things is limited. Although I saw an Adder here in the street (Vipera berus) last summer. The poor thing looked lost.
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quote:Kingwood is where I'll be staying, that's where my family lives.
Hey, I used to live in Kingwood, and I went to Kingwood High School for ninth and tenth grade. It was a long time ago, but I still have friends who live in Kingwood. Do you know any Jensens? There are 11 kids in the family, and the youngest would be about your age. They live in Kingwood.
I used to live in Forest Cove. Do you know where that is? My aunt still lives there.
I don't know any Jensens personally, but I did know there were some there during my time at KHS. That doesn't necessarily mean they were the same family though.
As for Forest Cove, I know where that is. I have at least one friend that lives in that area. My family lives in Greentree, sort of towards the back of Kingwood.
I honestly don't know Kingwood THAT well, I'm only there twice a year or so. I can ask my family there if they know some Jensens, and what part of the city they live in.
All my cousins went to Kingwood High School, my oldest cousin is, I think 28? So she would have graduated like 10 years ago. My middle cousin is my age, so she graduated four years ago, and my youngest cousin is in 12th grade there now.
My aunt also teaches at KHS, and has for the last few years at least. When did you guys graduate there?
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I graduated from KHS in 2004, so only 3 years ago. I'm curious as to who your aunt is Lyrhawn, as I know quite a few teachers at KHS.
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quote:Originally posted by Artemisia Tridentata: My co-worker is at the Hospital, even as we type, while her son has surgery on two brown recluse bites that he suffered last Thursday. They didn't take him to the doctor until Monday. Here at work, we have 1 or 2 industrial injury claims a year from recluse bites. The critters are not native to this area, but have come inside of shipping containers from around the world. (they are not the only transplants in the valley) And have been established over the years. In any case, if a brown recluse bite is likely, you really need to get medical attention as quickly as possible. Unfourtunatly you are usually not sure. They are very shy, and most bites, in our experience, come from picking up items, like clothing, in which they have hidden. You almost never see the spider, and the bite is not immidiately painful. The Kid in the first sentence was using the common teen-age practice of storing his clothing on the floor of his bedroom.
Huh? Where are they supposed to go?
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Dad did notice fewer spiders in his living area after bombing the place. We never opened the door again until this spring...to toss down another can of poison.
Interesting! My information about their resistance came from various universities' entymology departments a few years ago (wow--actually now that I think about it it was probably 5 years ago) when I was having to deal with a brown recluse infestation, rather than by personal experimentation. If you happen to find out what kind of poison it was at some point let me know. I probably wouldn't use it myself, simply because I'm leery of pesticides and herbicides in general, but I'd love to read about it.
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quote:Originally posted by MightyCow: Flesh-eating spiders AND deadly caterpillars? Sounds like you live in Dante's Inferno.
Indeed. Caterpillars that sting? That just creeps me out.
I thought it was funny when we found a black widow in our apartment; Jeff was freaking out. I usually freak out at the sight of a harmless house spider, but I got so used to dealing with black widows growing up (we lived in three houses in a row that had positive infestations in the backyard/garage/shed areas) that I was completely calm. I just trapped it in a jar, slid cardboard under it, got some nice thick leather shoes on, took it outside, cautiously pulled the jar off, and stomped it as it ran. He was freaked out all day, it didn't bother me, whereas a harmless house or wolf spider will send me screaming for hours. Go figure!
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kq, the stingy caterpillar leaves weird marks on your skin too, like stitches. Oh, death to the stingy caterpillars. They don't even turn into anything pretty; they turn into brown moths.
I'm telling you. Caterpillars, you have a date with the soles of my boots.
quote:I have no idea what it was. But when I pinched the bite, to try and get whatever was in there out, so I could properly clean it, the little thing just popped out, literally you could hear the pop (and I certainly felt it) and it was like a tiny pebble about the size of the bite, which was maybe pimple sized.
On a more serious note, the young man, previously referred to, had one bite erupt. The expelled mass was almost as large as a pingpong ball. The surgery was to debride and suture this cavity. The Doctor is worried as the second bite has not erupted. If it dosen't soon, they will probably lance it. Again, brown recluse bites are not to be trifled with. If you have one you need to go to the doctor quickly.
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I'll second that. A friend of mine back in highschool ended up with a (more or less) baseball sized chunk of her thigh rot away because of a brown recluse bite. They aren't to be trifled with.
Of course, they aren't all that serious either. Mine bascially just looked like a I had third nipple with a really puffy areola. Maybe the spider had expended most of its venom on something else before it got to me. Or maybe my body decided to give a third nipple a whirl before deciding it was too painful and reconsidering, and the smashed brown recluse was just a red herring.
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quote:I have no idea what it was. But when I pinched the bite, to try and get whatever was in there out, so I could properly clean it, the little thing just popped out, literally you could hear the pop (and I certainly felt it) and it was like a tiny pebble about the size of the bite, which was maybe pimple sized.
On a more serious note, the young man, previously referred to, had one bite erupt. The expelled mass was almost as large as a pingpong ball. The surgery was to debride and suture this cavity. The Doctor is worried as the second bite has not erupted. If it dosen't soon, they will probably lance it. Again, brown recluse bites are not to be trifled with. If you have one you need to go to the doctor quickly.
But what IS the stuff that's coming out of his bite? *shudder*
quote:Or maybe my body decided to give a third nipple a whirl before deciding it was too painful and reconsidering, and the smashed brown recluse was just a red herring.
quote:But what IS the stuff that's coming out of his bite? *shudder*
Pus and stuff as the immune system attacks the venom and tries to isolate the necrosis? Totally guessing.
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Pus and stuff! But, also actual dead tissue. If unsutured, it really can leave a cavity that does not fill in. Ive never seen a baseball sized one. But, I have seen a handball sized hole.
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quote:Originally posted by pfresh85: I graduated from KHS in 2004, so only 3 years ago. I'm curious as to who your aunt is Lyrhawn, as I know quite a few teachers at KHS.
My cousins graduated in 2002 and 2007, so you might know them too, Karen and Neal Daleiden.
My aunt is Kathy Daleiden. I think she teaches 9th grade something or other.
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Ah, you hit in the gap where I don't know people. I know people from 2003 until 2006. Sorry to say I don't recognize the last name. Of course if your aunt teaches at the 9th grade center, there's less chance I'd know her anyways.
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Size? The body alone, or the body with the legs? Maybe the size of a dime, or a tad smaller. Number of eyes? I have no clue. It didn't have hair. And if one of those things ever crawls on my bathroom scale, my bathroom scale is going out the window.![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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