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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 158863" data-attributes="member: 12827">The only spider I really fear is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider" target="_blank">Brown Recluse</a>. They are fairly common in this part of the country. I always check my sleeping bag before I get in it whenver I am in the woods. I have been bitten by a Red (not Black) Widow and it hurt like hell for a couple of hours but that was it. The bite of the Brown Recluse, on the other hand, causes widespread tissue necrosis and often requires skin grafts to heal. Whenever I see one of them I stomp them into dust. Every other spider I leave alone. Now if you want to see creepy, look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae" target="_blank">Camel Spider.</a> We saw a lot of these in Iraq. They are mean little bastids and I watched one chase down, kill and eat a mouse. They WOULD crawl into your sleeping bad and inflict a nasty bite. For that reason we were prohibited from sleeping on the ground. Most times I slept on the hood or roof of my HMMWV. We were all issued cots but I couldn't bring myself to sleep on one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 158863, member: 12827"] The only spider I really fear is a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider"]Brown Recluse[/URL]. They are fairly common in this part of the country. I always check my sleeping bag before I get in it whenver I am in the woods. I have been bitten by a Red (not Black) Widow and it hurt like hell for a couple of hours but that was it. The bite of the Brown Recluse, on the other hand, causes widespread tissue necrosis and often requires skin grafts to heal. Whenever I see one of them I stomp them into dust. Every other spider I leave alone. Now if you want to see creepy, look at the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae"]Camel Spider.[/URL] We saw a lot of these in Iraq. They are [I]mean little bastids [/I]and I watched one chase down, kill and eat a mouse. They WOULD crawl into your sleeping bad and inflict a nasty bite. For that reason we were prohibited from sleeping on the ground. Most times I slept on the hood or roof of my HMMWV. We were all issued cots but I couldn't bring myself to sleep on one. [/QUOTE]

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