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That's a little out of the confirmed range for hobo spiders (Tegenaria agrestis) but there are reports of a few isolated colonies in Northern Colorado and the abdoman looks a little too narrow.
I'm leaning towards it maybe being a funnel web grass spider (Agelenopsis)
I know of a elderly lady who eventually passed away from having being bitten by a recluse.
She went to a doctor and the doctor dismissed the bite as a mosquito bite. The next few days she became very, very ill, and went to the emergency room for treatment.
They couldn't figure it out. Woman was a diabetic and had other health issues too.
She was hospitalized for almost two weeks where her bodily functions began to shut down, and she passed on.
The hospital did some toxicology test at a autopsy and determined it was indeed a recluse bite.
The woman's children searched their mother's bedroom where they found several of them clinging around a wooden bed frame.
This is a wolf spider. It is the most common spider misidentified as a brown recluse or hobo spider in Colorado. Even doctors get this wrong. [url=http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05607.html]Brown Recluse Spiders in Colorado: Recognition and Spiders of Similar Appearance[/url]
I know of a elderly lady who eventually passed away from having being bitten by a recluse.
She went to a doctor and the doctor dismissed the bite as a mosquito bite. The next few days she became very, very ill, and went to the emergency room for treatment.
They couldn't figure it out. Woman was a diabetic and had other health issues too.
She was hospitalized for almost two weeks where her bodily functions began to shut down, and she passed on.
The hospital did some toxicology test at a autopsy and determined it was indeed a recluse bite.
The woman's children searched their mother's bedroom where they found several of them clinging around a wooden bed frame.
Considering the ELISA test is new and almost never used clinically I am shocked they used it to determine death in a woman who had many other health issues.
I just killed a spider that looks like the one above with a fly swatter the other day. I was watching TV and I noticed it walking on the rug and then it disappeared under the couch. I moved the couch and there it was. It was about 2 inches long. SMASH! I've never seen one like that before. I find a few black widows in the garage from time to time. I'm in Southern California.
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Considering the ELISA test is new and almost never used clinically I am shocked they used it to determine death in a woman who had many other health issues.
What???? The ELISA method is not new and it is used in many clinical laboratory tests.
the terror re: brown recluse spiders is highly exaggerated, and i say this as someone who lived in a not-so-well-kept house [sue me, i was a college student ] for 4 years with dozens of them around, and never had any issues with them whatsoever.
I also agree with this. If you are bitten by a brown recluse, the most likely scenario to unfold is that the result of your envenomation will be about as significant as a bee or hornet sting.
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] for 4 years with dozens of them around, and never had any issues with them whatsoever.
