Mason Michaels
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I think so,I was living somewhere else at the time.
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I think so,I was living somewhere else at the time.
They are native to the south/deep south but we now have them as an evasive species in Calif...
They can be real bad, worse than a blk widow.. Very aggressive..
Mason Michaels
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They can hitch a ride any where!
ThatOwlWoman
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They were all over Missouri too. I got bit by one on my foot that was apparently hiding in a shoe. It wasn't as bad as Mason's bite but it was pretty bad. Some ppl end up losing a lot of tissue and even a limb from the venom.
Mason Michaels
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I google it,there are two species of brown recluse in Ohio.
They say the ones here hitched a ride up in bananas from Nicaragua many years ago..... You goggle it you see lots of ugly, gangrene wounds.
Yea, you are lucky, some ppl don't get it as bad for some reason...
That is why I never leave my shoes outside anymore...
Mason Michaels
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I thought that was black widows
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And I'm the one that jaded you.
They aren't really native, more a traveled invasive species. With climate change they are getting worse, just like tick, mosquito, etc.
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There supposedly here but fortunately I've never run across one....
Mason Michaels
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There are two species in Ohio now!
Mason Michaels
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They hid in quiet dark places.
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I'm terrified of spiders, period.
Mason Michaels
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I wasn't till,I got that infected bite,since then I steer clear.
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I've been seeing a lot of snakes lately. I saw a corn snake and a black snake just the other day.
Mason Michaels
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I rarely see snakes up here,except garter snakes.
ThatOwlWoman
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I was real lucky. At the time we lived in a very old, creaky leaky house that had lots of creepy-crawlies. Guess one crawled into my shoe. The venom destroys tissue and you're right -- that causes sepsis and gangrene sometimes. Do you have scorpions there? I am really freaked out by those things.
ThatOwlWoman
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Tarantulas! Heheheheh.... my dad told me when I was little that a couple of times, he saw tarantulas hiding out in those huge bunches of bananas they used to have hanging in the markets back in the old days. My brothers were even worse... they told me that those black spots in the core of a banana were spider eggs. I couldn't eat bananas for years. lol
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