Last night I received an estatic call from my mother asking me to come home right away. She said she found a big spider and needed me to take care of it. She is really afraid of spiders and usually a big spider to her is about .25" long. After a few minutes of her begging and pleading, I went home. What do I find? A huge brown recluse spider. For those that don't know, it is a poisonous spider and CAN kill you. The area of the bite gets real big and sore, like 3-4" diameter bump. The venom kills the tissue, and if not treated, gang-green sets in and can spread throughout the body.
My mom had trapped the spider in an upside-down salsa dish. I had to carefully place a piece of paper underneath, and wrapped it around the dish. Now I'm a little squeemish around spiders, especially big, poinsonous ones. So I was decided to be careful and wrapped the paper and dish with saran wrap a few times so I could transport it to the street for a good stomping.
A few neighbors came out because they heard the commotion of my mom screaming and rasiing her voice and I was threatening to release the spider on her (jokingly) if she didn't reduce my rent.
All of them were scared at the site of the spider, and none of them wanted to help kill it. Here is what's left:
