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Lord have Mercy! And to think you will actually go under those homes intentionally and willingly. Thank God for people like you because I'm afraid if I had to do your job you may as well just take a shovel with you and bury me right there. Sometimes it is quite embarassing being a middle aged man that is arachnophobic, claustrophobic and achluophobic. We have a night light in every room of the house.
That made me laugh! Believe me, I am not a fan of crawling around under homes and hate spiders too! I have my own house sprayed every 3 months without fail. If I didn't enjoy looking at different houses everyday and checking them out I would definitely be inside an office somewhere without spiders and bugs!
I see harmless Agelenidae spiders in Boise houses a few times per year. Apparently they can be mistaken for a hobo, but these guys always run away and I know of no one that has ever been bitten.
Maybe it's because none of the people who have been bitten have never lived to tell about it.
Maybe it's because none of the people who have been bitten have never lived to tell about it.
I didn't need that thought put in my mind. Theres not enough in there to keep this from floating around. Your not allowed to play here anymore. Go to your room until we say you can come out, and no TV.
We're moving to Boise this summer as well and while the thought of a hobo spider crawling onto our bed doesn't sound very appealing............................
.....and then there's the problem of where do you find a tiny pair of 8 legged pajamas for it?
Maybe it's because none of the people who have been bitten have never lived to tell about it.
Hobo spider bite "victim" here...I don't live in Idaho, but I do live in the Northwest where these nasty things indeed run pretty rampant during certain times of the year. It's usually the July-October time period when they come out, but, as of now, May 3rd, I've trapped probably seven or eight hatchlings indoors and have seen at least a dozen rather "mature" looking ones running around outdoors (you see them most often at night). This definitely would seem to be a bit early for them to be venturing about (and evidently mating already)...I have to wonder what the situation will be by July.
As for the bite, well, it was pretty frigging nasty and fairly painful--slightly larger than a quarter, darkish red and very hard to the touch prior to the draining of infection (in fact, it left quite a nice little scar on my abdomen that's still quite prominent after six years). Just google some of the images of Hobo spider bites and see how gross they can be. I kinda wish I would have photographed mine.
Get some medical assessment if you end up with a Hobo bite, as rare as such inflictions actually are. Although I didn't seek any medical attention (I just applied some antibiotic ointment), I really should have, at least for some proper antibiotics as a precaution. I guess some people have gotten pretty ill after being injected with the venom (which I didn't, thankfully).
Wow! Sorry to hear about your encounter with these nasty little creatures. Unfortunately, it sounds as though they are every bit as bad as the Brown Recluse. I guess you should consider yourself lucky that you didn't end up in the hospital from the bite or even worse. Seems I will need to do some serious reading up on these nasty little boogers. Thanks for sharing your information.
Wow! Sorry to hear about your encounter with these nasty little creatures. Unfortunately, it sounds as though they are every bit as bad as the Brown Recluse. I guess you should consider yourself lucky that you didn't end up in the hospital from the bite or even worse. Seems I will need to do some serious reading up on these nasty little boogers. Thanks for sharing your information.
From what I've heard, a bite from a Recluse spider has the potential to be much more damaging than a bite from a Hobo--if anything, I consider myself lucky that I really don't have to worry about Brown Recluses crawling in my sheets (although I've heard of extremely rare instances where people in this area have had encounters with them). You must be excited to leave those behind!
But you're right, I was pretty lucky in the aftermath of my run-in, especially since I really didn't know that I had been bitten by a Hobo until a friend noticed it as a Hobo bite when it was in an early healing stage.
Also, what's freaky about Hobos is that they're supposedly impossible to chemically exterminate in any efficient way; rather, you have to rely on the large presence of a competitor insect that hunts the same prey in order to reduce their presence (I've actually been told that Daddy longlegs are viable competitors). By chemically exterminating against the Hobos, you're more likely to simply exterminate its competitors.
Just something to consider (and I could be mistaken, I suppose).
Wow! Sorry to hear about your encounter with these nasty little creatures. Unfortunately, it sounds as though they are every bit as bad as the Brown Recluse. I guess you should consider yourself lucky that you didn't end up in the hospital from the bite or even worse. Seems I will need to do some serious reading up on these nasty little boogers. Thanks for sharing your information.
Seeing you are from Missouri, it reminds me of an incident that happened to me when visiting my brother and sister-in-law in Springfield 4 years ago. Several hours after getting out of bed in their guest bedroom one morning, I noticed a bite of some kind on my chest, but nothing else other than a slight itch, that's all.
So maybe 2 days later after I'd returned home the bite began to fester and itch quite a bit more, so went to see the doctor. The doctor didn't know what the hell it was, but gave me some medication vs possible infection. That's about it, but to this day, which is 4 years later, I've got a scar and yet have no idea what kind of insect bite I experienced ?
Seeing you are from Missouri, it reminds me of an incident that happened to me when visiting my brother and sister-in-law in Springfield 4 years ago. Several hours after getting out of bed in their guest bedroom one morning, I noticed a bite of some kind on my chest, but nothing else other than a slight itch, that's all.
So maybe 2 days later after I'd returned home the bite began to fester and itch quite a bit more, so went to see the doctor. The doctor didn't know what the hell it was, but gave me some medication vs possible infection. That's about it, but to this day, which is 4 years later, I've got a scar and yet have no idea what kind of insect bite I experienced ?
I imagine it's possible it could have been a recluse that bit you. Not all bites are deadly. This is why I always pull the sheets down and do a inspection before I crawl into bed. Hopefully no surprises.
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Also, what's freaky about Hobos is that they're supposedly impossible to chemically exterminate in any efficient way; rather, you have to rely on the large presence of a competitor insect that hunts the same prey in order to reduce their presence (I've actually been told that Daddy longlegs are viable competitors). By chemically exterminating against the Hobos, you're more likely to simply exterminate its competitors.
I have heard this about the Brown Recluse also and the Daddy Long Legs. Supposedly the Daddy Long Leg is one of the most poison spiders there is but are not harmful to humans because their mouth is to small to bite us.
Supposedly the Daddy Long Leg is one of the most poison spiders there is but are not harmful to humans because their mouth is to small to bite us.
That's a myth...
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Believe me, I am not a fan of crawling around under homes and hate spiders too! I have my own house sprayed every 3 months without fail. If I didn't enjoy looking at different houses everyday and checking them out I would definitely be inside an office somewhere without spiders and bugs! 
