NOT RECLUSE with Dr. Rick Vetter
Join Dan (@drusyniak) &Howard (@heshiegreshie) as they speak with Dr. Rick Vetter about all things brown recluse, why you should always inspect your packages very, very carefully, and why Howard will never move to Kansas.
Delicious Links
- The USPS should be known as “The Fearless” . . . Arachnids submitted as suspected brown recluse spiders. . . And brown recluse spiders live where they do.
- How to Identify and Misidentify a Brown Recluse Spider. Step #1 – Check the Map. . . Step #999999 – if you can count the eyes, YOU ARE TOO CLOSE.
- A reason for this family to play the lottery . . . An infestation of 2,055 brown recluse spiders and no envenomations in a Kansas home. . .
- The Myth of the Brown Recluse – Fact, Fear, and Loathing by Dr. Vetter
- Don’t forget that systemic symptoms can occur as well. Hemolytic anemia following a presumptive brown recluse spider bite.
- NOT RECLUSE – a mnemonic device to avoid false diagnoses of brown recluse spider bites.
- Dan is happy to remind NYC of mistakes we’ve made . . . Cutaneous Anthrax Infection initially diagnosed as a brown recluse spider bite.
- Maratus volans, or the peacock spider, is a species in the jumping spider family with a very interesting mating dance. . .
- To be an Explorer. A special meal with tempura tarantula in ponzu sauce.
- “Eight legs. Two fangs. And an attitude.”
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Just FYI – the recluse map range linked above under the anchor “Check the map” leads to a broken site. Here is a map on a live site showing the distribution of Loxosceles sp. in the United States: https://usaspiders.com/loxosceles-reclusa-brown-recluse/#Map_of_other_Loxosceles_species_in_the_United_States