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Subject: Re: Pineapple cheese refrigerator pie recipe
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:43:28 -0400
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On 11/2/2024 1:16 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2024-11-02 10:06 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 11/2/2024 9:55 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2024-11-02 9:17 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> One night he was headed home from an afternoon shift and popped in 
>>> the ER where we was treated by a doctor who had interned in an area 
>>> where brown recluse spiders live. He had surgery for it the next day. 
>>> They had to scoop out the flesh and then pull his wound closed. The 
>>> massive scar tissue required massage for months. It's all healed up 
>>> now but he has a very large and very ugly scar there now.
>>>
>>>
>> As your son found out, a bite from a spider is not something to be 
>> ignored.  I don't let spiders hang out in my house.  There are a few 
>> little harmless garden spiders that find their way in; I pick them up 
>> and toss them outside.  But sorry (songbird) I'll spray pesticides all 
>> over the exterior to keep them from coming inside my house.
> 
> Spider bites are the sort of thing we worry about here. Most spiders are 
> harmless and those that do bite are so mild they are little more than a 
> distraction. That's why my son didn't worry about it at the time. By the 
> time he got him it was like a small blister. He popped it and cleaned it 
> out but it just kept getting wider and deeper. By the time he went to 
> the hospital it was about the diameter of a quarter and about 1/8th inch 
> deep. Apparently those things have a necrotizing venom that eats away at 
> the flesh on top and just keeps working its way down.
> 
> One advantage to having (non venomous) spiders in the house is that they 
> trap and eat annoying insects like flies, mosquitoes and moths.
>
> I wish they were big enough to deal with the more invasive stink bugs 
> that have been thriving here for the past few years.
> 
I don't recall if I posted the pic of the banana spider I had in the 
bushes out front a few months ago.  I didn't keep the photo.  They are 
non-venomous but if you try to grab one they will bite.  They get pretty 
big:

https://hgic.clemson.edu/banana-spiders/

Don't want one inside the house!

Jill