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Old 07-19-2018, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Tampa
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I just saw a huge brown recluse spider in my room and decided to take a picture before trying to kill. This was stupid because when I tried to kill it with flip flop I missed. And it want inder a heavy dresser.

I read spiders do not bite unless provoked can this spider remember I provoked it and come and get me in my sleep?
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Old 07-19-2018, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Ocean Shores, WA
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I read spiders do not bite unless provoked can this spider remember I provoked it and come and get me in my sleep?
Yes it will.

If you kill it before it gets you, his mate will come after you.

If you kill her, all 600 of her babies will be waiting for you.
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Old 07-19-2018, 10:04 PM
 
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I guess I am not sleeping tonight
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Old 07-19-2018, 10:31 PM
 
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I guess I am not sleeping tonight

Haha! Why dont you just get a "bug cup" and put it outside? Ever see the movie "Charlotte's Web"?
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Old 07-20-2018, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Boonies of N. Alabama
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I just saw a huge brown recluse spider in my room and decided to take a picture before trying to kill. This was stupid because when I tried to kill it with flip flop I missed. And it want inder a heavy dresser.

I read spiders do not bite unless provoked can this spider remember I provoked it and come and get me in my sleep?

I get bit in my sleep by spiders regularly. Part and parcel with living in a forest. No matter how much I vacuum, can't get them all. About 2 weeks ago I pulled back the covers to get into bed and a spider scurried for cover. I had just changed the sheets 2 days prior. I got him tho. At least that time.
And don't watch Arachnophobia for a while.
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Old 07-20-2018, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Tampa
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I get bit in my sleep by spiders regularly. Part and parcel with living in a forest. No matter how much I vacuum, can't get them all. About 2 weeks ago I pulled back the covers to get into bed and a spider scurried for cover. I had just changed the sheets 2 days prior. I got him tho. At least that time.
And don't watch Arachnophobia for a while.
Yes but did you see brown recluse they are highly poisonous
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Old 07-20-2018, 07:51 AM
 
Location: NC
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If they had the kind of memory you are writing about the the spider would "remember" to avoid the area where you tried to kill it, NOT decide to take vengeance on you. So just continue watching out for them accidentally getting in your space, while they are looking for food, water, or a place to hang out.
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Old 07-20-2018, 08:37 AM
 
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If they had the kind of memory you are writing about the the spider would "remember" to avoid the area where you tried to kill it, NOT decide to take vengeance on you. So just continue watching out for them accidentally getting in your space, while they are looking for food, water, or a place to hang out.
What is their food? Am I their food?
I got bit on the neck, I thought it was a strand of hair falling out of place, but it was a spider crawling on my neck and it bit me.
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Old 07-20-2018, 08:51 AM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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I saw a black widow in my basement one day but I didn't get bit. She was still mourning the loss of her husband that she killed. I also had a brown recluse living in my garage but he pretty much kept to himself, seldom went outside.
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Old 07-20-2018, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Nantahala National Forest, NC
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I got bit on the neck, I thought it was a strand of hair falling out of place, but it was a spider crawling on my neck and it bit me.

Well you must have done something to anger the little guy...
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