Poisionous spiders in Virginia

[XxVIRTUExX]

Originally Posted by Count Arioch the 28th

I find that very hard to believe, considering that they can't survive in Virginia for very long, and the fact that brown recluse bites have an extremely low fatality rate even when untreated. Bees kill a higher percentage of people than brown recluse spiders.

But if you can show me a news story where someone was bitten, the offending spider caught, and the spider was verified by an arachnologist to be a Loxosceles reclusa, then I will believe it. Until then, I'm going to agree with the scientists over two vague personal accounts from some random person on the internet.

Actually Count Arioch....your only partially right....they are somewhat of a rarity, BUT the Brown Recluse DOES live in VA....proof you say? Here, courtesy of University of Virginia.

THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK WIDOWS AND BROWN RECLUSES IN RELEVANCE TO VA.

[url=http://uvahealth.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/12/spiders-fact-vs-fiction/]Spiders: Fact vs. Fiction | UVA Health System Blog[/url]

And

Rick Vetter of the University of California challenged people to send him spiders they believed were brown recluses. Of 1,779 arachnids submitted from 49 states, only 4 brown recluse spiders came from outside its known range. One was found in a California home; the owners had just moved from Missouri. The remaining three spiders were found in a shed in coastal Virginia. Attempts to find more brown recluses in the area came up empty, suggesting an isolated population of unknown origin.

[iss8709]

Spiders are not poisonous they are venomous. Wolf spiders are venomous also as are the st. Cross spider, grass spider, all I have seen outside my house in Virginia. Normally they are no serious threat to humans. The major ones are the Femal black widows (the males pose no harm) an the brown recluse. Will everyone who doesn't know the real facts on spiders stop trying to educate others on them. Please.