Brown Recluse

ascott

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I'm making him an enclosure. Lol

He would appreciate it I am sure...they don't have but a year or two life span...so go for it.

I have some daddy long legs that I let live in the house in a few select areas (they are masters of keeping the corners in check) and one funnel spider even made it into the house into the window box and has been there for over a year, awesome (but dusty) web---my son and I believe he has lived out his year and has passed, but we are going to wait a couple weeks to be sure before we clear out his corner,....the only spiders here that meet the "bottom of the shoe" fate are black and brown widows and once in awhile a wind scorpion....the rest kinda do their thing and we do ours...if one finds its way in the doorway when we are not looking and we come across it later, it usually gets a ride back out the door in a cup and the "fling" from the cup sets them on their way...
 

sunshine_hugs

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I don't kill spiders either, but it would have freaked me out it it was a brown recluse (my friends nephew was bitten on his scalp by one, and has a huge pit on his head...it's creepy, but he's fine)! We don't have any venomous spiders where I live, so we happily coexist (even inside the house).
 

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I can't believe what I'm reading. I have to show this thread to my husband. He always told his friends I was eccentric because I never kill spiders. Now none of my kids kill them either. Our's are just old NY spiders, nothing as pretty as yours, but we never have flies in our house.
 

ShellyTurtlesCats

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I ended up letting Funnel go. The kids begged me to get them something else in his place and I did.

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~ Shelly ~ now Free
 

T33's Torts

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OMG!! It GIGANTIC!! Where are you!? If I saw a spider like that, I'd burn my house down!!
 

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