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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] My Inconvenient Truth
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:28:19 -0800

You, as in Georgia, have several spiders that could be a problem.

The yellow sac spider: sting similar in feeling to a bee or wasp; localized redness and burning lasting up to an hour, with rash and blistering occuring during the next 1-10 hours. Sometimes an alcerated lesion develops at the site of the bite.

Trachelas tranquillus: records of severe secondary infection associated with the bite.

You do know that field ants bite and that they inject some type of secretion into the bite that can be painful and in a very allergic person could cause other problems??

Blister beetles?

I don't think the squash bugs bite but the assassin bugs do bite and the bites can be painful and cause allergic reactions and become infected.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>; <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] My Inconvenient Truth




bob ford wrote:
Do you have any idea what kind of spider bit you. Are BR indigenous
or only BW. ?

Sorry you aren't feeling well, too......................bobford

I don't know. It might not have even been a spider since I did not see
it. I did feel something crawling in the neck/chest area of my hoodie,
and I grabbed at it and then looked, but I never saw anything. However,
it was a few hours later that I noticed the bite. Black widow bites are
very painful and a neurotoxin, so we can rule that out. I see brown
recluse spiders very often, they are definitely around, but what I felt
was more like a bug than a spider. I think BR bites act more like a
flesh eating bacteria, don't they? I have no clue, really, but I know
it is not the first time I've been bitten. I'm kind of wondering if
maybe it is some kind of squash bug or assassin bug. I've heard they
bite, and I have bunches of them in the mulch in the garden. I've been
fighting them for a few years now, and winning, I might add. But just
yesterday to my great surprise I found one in my greenhouse, surviving
even the low temps of a 16 degree morning inside the greenhouse, so they
seem to be everywhere. Maybe they are biting me and I'm having a
reaction to that??? I don't know.

B


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hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
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