Nasty spider bite

[Cam Sykes]

Came across this, very nasty... So if you ever need to draw/paint a victim of spider bite here is good reference :P

http://thecontaminated.com/spider-bite-problem/

[Rist]

Looks fake!

[DanielC]

not fake !

[Duq]

Actually its from a Brown Recluse spider, have seen pictures of these bites before. They dont always turn out like this though. Some turn out far far worse.

[ChristianWeeks]

Yeah i immidiately thought brown recluse when i saw that too. Them and black widows are the only poisonous spiders (I think) that live in the south east U.S. (or atleast north and south carolina). There must be several different species taht have similar venom.

Between the two I see black widows a lot more often. I think ive only seen a brown recluse once.

[Peter Coene]

Between the two I see black widows a lot more often. I think ive only seen a brown recluse once.

That's why its called a brown recluse, they like to stay away from people and will usually show up in places that are dry and have been abandoned for a while. Black widows on the other hand will live in closer proximity to humans and their bites are not as bad. They are also a bit safer because everyone knows how to identify them: black spider with red hourglass shape on the belly.

[Rist]

You could come live in merry ol' england. I think the only dangerous animal is the 'chav' culture.

[Peter Coene]

You could come live in merry ol' england. I think the only dangerous animal is the 'chav' culture.

But you can take them out with a cricket bat to the head like in "Shawn of the Dead," right?

You guys also have those pretty red mushrooms, don't you?

[ArtZealot]

yeah my late grandmother got bit by one of those about 10 years ago. she survived it but it made a massive bruise that swallowed up about half the leg it bit her on and took about a month to heal. those spiders are no joke.

Poison dart frogs have more killing power though. I think it's called a golden poison dart frog, just a drop of their venom is enough to kill about 10 people.

[GNL]

Yeah, Recluse spider venom can cause necrosis.

[ArtZealot]

Yeah, Recluse spider venom can cause necrosis.

woah cool! isn't that where you come back to life?

[Rist]

But you can take them out with a cricket bat to the head like in "Shawn of the Dead," right?

You guys also have those pretty red mushrooms, don't you?

You could, but if a cop saw you on the street with a baseball bat they would probably arrest you. If you did avoid those you would probably be up against a gang of 20 so you could take out five, but the rest would probably stab you to near death. If you survived that, the cops would arrest you for assaulting five youths.

Amazing, eh?

Never heard of red mushrooms... might be somewhere...

[Peter Coene]

You could, but if a cop saw you on the street with a baseball bat they would probably arrest you.
sheesh, arrest me for a baseball bat and NOT for a cricket bat? I call discrimination on that one... fricken' Limeys :P

If you did avoid those you would probably be up against a gang of 20
So it IS like Shawn of the Dead!

[Elwell]

Never heard of red mushrooms... might be somewhere...
Amanita muscaria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria) or fly agaric, common throughout the Northern hemisphere. The archetypal "toadstool," it is hallucinogenic in small doses, fatal in large ones.
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[sin-d]

I got bit by a Brown Recluse in January. Mine was not nearly as bad as this poor guy with the thumb bite. The doctor told me the severity was determined by how much venom they get in you. The venom basically rots your flesh until it runs its course. The amount of venom in my bite was about the size of a half dollor on my stomach. It pretty much put a hole there and took almost 2 months to close back up. I have a big, purple welt-like scar there now. It was no fun. But I did take pictures as it went along so I could gross my friends out.
I am all better now...just thought I would share. :)

[Stoat]

I've got sixty acres in middle Tennessee CHOCK FULL of brown recluses. Anybody buying?

[arttorney]

Itches like fury, but hurts too much to scratch.

[dark eagle]

My step-brother got bit by a venomos spider whilst in austallia and he got to treat it himself. He's a medical student(well he was 2 years ago when he got bitten) and of all places he got bitten at the place he was studying spider bites. How ironic.

@ stoat. I'll give you 50 sterling for that. Makes hundred in the dollar for.

[Burtzum]

A couple days ago we found our third black widow within the past year on our property (2 in garage, one in my room). No brown recluses yet thank goodness.

[Robert.B]

we get 3 species of brown reclues down here ^_^

[Stoat]

There's something I don't get about this. When I was a kid, my memory is that recluse and black widow sightings were very rare. I remember they found a recluse in the bathroom at the Nashville fairground, and it made the TV news that night. Now they seem to be everywhere.

Speaking of which, I don't remember that we had coyotes back then, either.

Hmmm.

[VulgarDragon]

When I was a kid, my mom made me clean out the tool shed. It was full of brown recluse spiders and black widows...some big as a marble. Now spiders creep me out. I haven't been bitten by any except for wolf spiders-- not venomous but they hurt like hell.

Black widows won't cause necrosis, but they can make you very ill or even kill. People who have been bitten describe the experience as being very painful--excruciating muscle cramps all over the body for days. Not something you would want to experience.

Glad I don't live in Australia, where there are several venomous species of spiders and insects...we only have two to four types here.

[Barts]

yepp everything here wants to eat you, always get white tail spiders in my bedroom, never been bitten but i hate them so much

[Peter Coene]

yepp everything here wants to eat you, always get white tail spiders in my bedroom, never been bitten but i hate them so much

croikey!

[Black Spot]

yepp everything here wants to eat you, always get white tail spiders in my bedroom, never been bitten but i hate them so much

That reminds me of the story in Malaysia. Due to the numerous variety of snakes (greatest in the world), where only one of some species had ever been found, if you were bitten and didn’t know what it was, you were supposed to run after it, catch it and take it to hospital and say, “I was bitten by this snake”. In school we learnt the different puncture marks, how to do a tourniquet, cut ¼ of a inch between the puncture wounds and let bleed freely – I understand the technique is different these days. In the five years I spent there, I only ever saw four snakes and they ran away.

[Rist]

Amanita muscaria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria) or fly agaric, common throughout the Northern hemisphere. The archetypal "toadstool," it is hallucinogenic in small doses, fatal in large ones.
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They look pretty! I need to keep my eye open and eat one... I mean draw it.

[Stoat]

I was out hiking in the woods in Connecticut yesterday, and I ran across some mushroom hunters. They showed me their haul.

They had some black trumpety fungus that looked SO inedible. And some orange ones that looked pretty, but likewise inedible. But I was chuffed to learn that those gorgeous orange shelf-like fungi you see growing off the sides of trees around here are, in fact, edible. In fact, they call them 'chicken mushrooms' because they taste like...guess what. Though apparently they'll give you the trots the first time you eat them.

I don't think I'd dare eat anything I gathered on a hike, but they sure are purty.

[alesoun]

Noooo! Rist! Don't mess with the fairytale toadstools!

My husband and I sometimes gather and cook mushrooms. If they need checked in a book,- I make HIM taste them first!

(Well, you can't be too careful, can you?);)

[AsaB]

As an arachnephobic, this picture'll probably take hours of good sleep from me tonight. Why did I click it? Why? Even better, why do disgusting things like this exist in the first place? Thankfully the biggest spiders up here are the size of a nut. Well, fairly big nut, but still!

Aw, I love that mushroom. We call it berserk mushrooms :D No idea why, though.

[Elwell]

Aw, I love that mushroom. We call it berserk mushrooms :D No idea why, though.

Because there was a theory (pretty much abandoned now) that the vikings used then to go into their berserk state.

[alesoun]

Stoat hard to say without seeing them, but you might be talking about Honey Fungus. I'm told it tastes peppery, but I've never tried them....

[AsaB]

Because there was a theory (pretty much abandoned now) that the vikings used then to go into their berserk state.
Oh, is that so? Thanks for the heads up :) Fun theory, although I do kind of doubt it!