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There is a large brown recluse spider in our kitchen of our small apartment....we have two cats and Litara is in a wheelchair...so we need to be extra careful, as recluse are known to attack/stalk for no reason.

Does anyone know a safe and effective way to get rid of them? It is about 4 cm in length and a beautiful maroonish brown/shiny color, with small sacks on its leg joints, which I believe are a poison sack. I am positive this is a male brown recluse spider. I would love any feedback--asap!

He is right now, behind the oven. We put a bottle near his last resting place, hoping he will go in and we could throw him out!!! Ideas, please? :eek::confused::eek:

Can you or someone spray some pesticide or bug spray behind the stove? Be careful, though, since you have cats....you don't want to make them sick. But, you don't want them to get bitten, either! Is there someone who can move the stove and kill the spider? Maybe the apartment management could find someone who'd do it for you?

Brown recluse has a characteristic shape on the back of his body....and typically is not large. Most people never see this spider, when they get bitten!

Yours might be a wolf spider.

http://www.brownreclusespider.org/

http://www.brownreclusespider.org/br...tification.htm

This is the wolf spider...and they can get really BIG:

http://www.brownreclusespider.org/ga...olf-spider.htm

I had one jump out at me once from between two rocks in the garden. I almost fainted away!

I had a horrible spider bite on my ankle, on vacation one year. It bit me while was sitting on the dock watching shooting stars. It was painful and nasty and took 3 months and 3 drugs to heal up. I never saw it or felt it... til the next day.

I don't think most sprays work on spiders.

I hate that site, Mrs D! Yikes, creepy spiders crawling around. Gives me the willies.

:eek:

Okay, see if you can tell me what this one is. I took this pic in Florida. It had a leg span, as it sits here, about 3 inches across.

Note the yellow web.

And that guy was nothing, after seeing the fishing spiders along the coast. I was too scared to get the camera. There must have been thousands of them that day, all along the tops of the trees. Big as my hand, at least. You could see their silhouettes, driving by in the car. Big, and thick. Meaty.

I was like *Roll the windows up!!! Do NOT stop this truck!!!*

:o

There are some nasty ones in Florida. I sat in a plane next to a gal and her hubby from Ohio....he was bitten in a hotel bed.

He was sooooo sick. They cut their vacation short so he could come home. (after 3 days in the hospital there!)

Then there was a guy I had as a customer, who was bitten on the arm in his RV in Florida. Nasty nasty. I listened to his story for a long time! He was getting irrigating solution and antibiotics from me.

I really don't know what is in Florida. Maybe someone can help us out there?

Florida Spiders
 

I am surprised I haven't had a nightmare yet!

I did have one nasty one a month ago about spiders... cringe!

Not my favorite beasties.

It took me YEARS to get used to them on vacation. I'll tell you there is a spider for every rock up there. They like to hide in the bed too. :yikes:

Still I can cohabit with them now, but I don't like them any more than before!

I recall when my son was about 8 yrs old and he found a huge toad.
We put the toad in our 5 gal aquarium I keep up there, to watch beasties.
Hubby decided to feed the toad, and he caught a big orb weaver under the eave using a broom. We fed that to the toad, and it was one gross moment, cherished by my son.... but not cherished by ME!

We had 2 praying mantis's in that aquarium once, a male and female.
Watching them eat the flies we caught for them was tame compared to the toad eating the huge spider! LOL (we let the mantis's go eventually and watched them run up the trees to the top!)

I am now scratching Florida off of the list of possible vacation destinations....

gross! i HATE insects. and i'm moving to FL in 8 wks. yikes!
i'd call a professional exterminator.

my feeling is where there is one there is 2 etc.
i don't trust insects. ewwwwww.

Great news people--after the information you all gave me, it definitely is not a brown recluse (it doesn't have the "fiddle" shape on his head....)

Turns out it isn't poisonous, either--at least, not lethally! I sprayed near it's "home" the other day and haven't seen it since. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the information!! I knew I could count on you guys! :grouphug:

Thanks! It's a Golden silk spider.

Ingwaz - glad it's not dangerous. Hope you get him. I'm scared to death of spiders. I took this pic because even tho I'm scared, it was really a cool thing. It was SO big, it's web was like a grandma's shawl, 5' wide! And the colors on its legs were pretty in a weird way, in the sun.

Judy - from what I heard, everybody down there has their place sprayed regularly. Don't worry too much though ... the lizzards eat a lot of the bugs and the scorpions kill a lot of spiders.

:D

C'mon, whats all the fuss here. I love all these creepy crawlers and we dont have anymore bugs than other states. One spider we do have alot of is brown widows, you can tell easy by the egg sacs they have.

The sacs look like a tiny spiny ball. The spider also has the hour glass on its abdomen. Brown recluses are extremely rare here in Florida. Lowes or Home depot carries a spray called spider killer, its very effective if you chose to kill them.

Okay tough guy, you're in charge of varmint killin'.

I'll be surprised if I don't have nightmares just from reading this thread. What am I THINKING?? If I click on one of those links, somebody better have a defibrillator.

Should of been at my house about 3 weeks ago. I spotted a spider on patio belly up and sure enough it was a brown widow. So I pick it up with my fingers and put it on the table to take pics. Well no sooner than did I lay it down it started to crawl away.

Guess the cold made it semi dormant but that would make you jump. I will have to post some pics the next time, I had no idea that there are so many people here that like these critters like me.

OK Mrs. D,
Here's my toad story. DS was having a pool party, DH ran down little hill to filter and lifted high a black snake with a big lump halfway in him for all the boys to see. They loved it! Then that snake heaved up dead that HUGE toad he'd eaten. Boys loved it.

Gotta love boys!

Okay my story... A couple years ago we did the family reunion in florida. All the little (an not so little) boys were catching lizzards and frogs. so of course, decide to scare us old ladies with the. Worked for most of 'em.

I am not crazy about spiders and snakes, but I like those tiny anoles - had one as a pet for years. When those boys saw that I could catch and hold a lizzard, OMG, how cool was I.

:cool:

As long as they stayed outta my drink, it's all good. I don't share my margaritas.

One time, my nephew *Ant* brought me a big ol frog and I made him dance the *Michigan Rag* - we still bust up about that one.