# Questions about Spiders
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-spiders/662679
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 5, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-spiders/662679 "2013-07-05T00:55:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@slowlearner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowlearner)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-spiders/662679/21 "2013-07-06T00:55:33Z")
I have lived in my house completely free of pesticides, chemical or organic, for 12 years. I don’t have roaches or fleas (0 roaches or fleas ever because I don’t have close neighbors or dogs) but do have lots of spiders. Wolf spiders are a hoot, I can’t believe a wolfie would ever bite anyone, I scoop them into an empty water glass and pitch them out into the garden when I can corner them. Other spiders, sadly, get the vacuum treatment. Little doodlebugs and humus eating beetles from the garden wander thru the house from time to time and I can always tell when I’ve got a brown recluse because it starts to look like a little slaughter house under their messy web structures. A friend of mine who does use bug spray got a brown recluse bite and the Doctors had to carve away most of one buttock. I asked her if she still thought if we lived in the best of all possible worlds but, typical illiterate American, she didn’t get it.
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### Author:  [@theinscrutabledoctorknow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theinscrutabledoctorknow)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-spiders/662679/22 "2013-07-06T08:55:24Z")
Spider bite can leave 2 puncture marks.
Spiders put in digestive juices in when they bite so spider bites kinda never wanna heal.
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### Author:  [@genuinejon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/genuinejon)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2013, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-spiders/662679/23 "2013-07-06T09:47:28Z")
Lying on my back in bed I felt something in the middle of my back poking me. I thought it was a muscle spasm, but it repeated in rhythmic bursts, and it was too localized. I sat up and turned on the light. I probably rolled over on the spider–some quarter-sized house spider–and was quite impressed with his strength in trying to lift me off him. I’m sure he tells all his spider buddies about the time he lifted a whole human.
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### Author:  [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-spiders/662679/24 "2013-07-06T20:10:52Z")
Well, just like that: [Relevant article on spider bites](http://news.yahoo.com/surprising-cause-most-spider-bites-163944651.html).
Hmm, let’s see, what other topics can I make emerge in the news?
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