Last night while geting ready to put on my waders, I found a brown recluse spider IN my pickup truck..It had made a little web underneath my headrest and was just siting on the back of my headrest....:smash:
It was black and orange and had that violin pattern on its back just like the one described lurking in Salty's shop:(

Killed it, but now i'm scared to drive my truck... thre could be more:af:

Are you sure it was a brown recluse spider? I didn't think they were native in New England.

We all know it's stressful to become a father but that doesn't mean you have to get loose with your entomology :smash:

Sharpen up :laughs:

-spence

They might not be native, but they are around.
I knew a guy (CS knew him too, Bruce MacFarlane, used to own MacSquids) who lived in Orleans that got bit by one a few years back, not fun.

from what i've read...(and i don't like spiders)...they aren't native to this area...think about anything you've had in your truck....something taken up from the southeast? maybe it was a traveler....i don't remember the orange you talk about.....if it is one....fog the interior of the truck with a good fogger ( can be bought at a home center). only disadvantage is you have to clean the windows. then spray something fabreeze to get rid of the rest of the chemical odor....just an idea....good luck.....Jim

doubt that was a brown recluse Eben, they're not orange...brown :D

probably a garden spider?

Spiders suck!

not native here, but they have been reported here. remember the black widows in shaws grapes last year?

what ever it was it was nasty, big, and not like any spider I have ever deen around here.

friggen nasty 8 legged thing...:smash:

Its dead now:devil:

http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num2/special/recluse.html

bernzy that's one of the sites we found with the exact pic of the spiders we got.....

http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num2/special/vetter-3s.jpeg

When it dies which the first one did inside a coffee jar after 2 days, the big bulbous back of it shrivels up into this gooey glob of puss...and man does that thing SMELL inside the jar! The violin pattern was very well defined at first but alot of the colors have turned more brown since it died, almost like it's got dye in it that changed color.

freakin gross. I shiver every time I think of what could have happened with that thing...

I've got a buddy who lives in Nashville, TN and he removed a spider trap from behind his fridge last year when I was visiting there were 30-40 of them in it.

We have them here as well.

Nasty bastiges

Bernzy

Im afraid to go in my truck too . everytime I open the door I hear this real scary voice say "its cold in here close the door" ! So I do !
Ive never seen it but it does yell .

could this be one of them recluse spiders ?

spiders.....:spidey:

If that picture above is a recluse, that is the spider on my head rest :smash:

Eben we be blood brothers now :D

Back in the late '60s and early 70s we had spiders from freakin' Mars!!! Man, that was scary and weird!!:laughs:

If you can't use the spider for bait, it ain't good for nuthin :)

I hate.. hate... HATE.. spiders

Spiders and spider like things are the only things that scare the $%@%@# out of me... I get anxiety attacks sometimes..

I even get a little creeped out by big spider crabs..

Im like feeling it coming on just thinkign about it.