- #PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRANSLUCENT SPIDER HOW TO#
- #PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRANSLUCENT SPIDER UPDATE#
It will likely make reliable identification more difficult. Please don’t indiscriminately KILL a spider though and ask me to ID it. I will help you coordinate a drop off point for collection. You may contact me, Cynthia Brast-Bormann at submit live or deceased specimens for identification. Try and get a shot of the dorsal (top) of the spider, and if you’re able, one of its face – showing eye pattern. If you have a spider you’d like identified, it helps to have a couple of clear photos to submit. These folks generously volunteer their time and knowledge, so keep that in mind and please refrain if you feel inclined to INSIST they are wrong and there are INDEED Brown Recluse Spiders living in your house in San Juan County. There are several group “experts” with experience identifying spiders. If you read something written by either Rod Crawford (Seattle Burke Museum curator of the arachnid collection) or by Rick Vetter (UC Riverside Department of Entomology), you can be assured it is correct.Īs a local resource, you can also check out the Facebook Bug Group (Bugs of the San Juan Islands). They are valuable resources with information from highly credentialed experts in all things arachnid-related. The first two are the ones you should look at first. Where else can I find reliable information on Spiders? If it’s not a brown recluse or hobo spider bite, what is it? Causes of necrotic wounds that aren’t from spider bites.
#PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRANSLUCENT SPIDER HOW TO#
How to identify and MIS-identify a Brown Recluse Spider –. Map showing distribution of Brown Recluse spiders (Please note that San Juan County is NOT found on this map) – Map of Brown Recluse Spider distribution – UC Riverside If you don’t like them, just catch in a cup and take it to a sheltered area outside – preferably another structure where it might have a chance to survive. If you see a large brown spider in your house – especially on the ceiling, it is most likely (99.99%) going to be a Giant House Spider ( Eratigena duellica). It’s possible, BUT – they have not been able to survive and breed here. Caveat: this is not to say that if you move here from an area where there ARE established populations, one might be found hitching on your moving boxes. Brown Recluse spiders do not live in the San Juan Islands. Information that comes from a verified, reputable source – from an actual expert. In the attached links below, you will find links to information about the Brown Recluse Spider. How to identify and misidentify a Hobo Spider – īrown Recluse Spiders (Loxoceles sp) – NO! I repeat “NO, none, nada!” established populations in our area. Foradori, Laura Corley Lavine, Misdiagnosis of Spider Bites: Bacterial Associates, Mechanical Pathogen Transfer, and Hemolytic Potential of Venom From the Hobo Spider, Tegenaria agrestis (Araneae: Agelenidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 2, 1 March 2011, Pages 382–388, Erroneous attribution of dermonecrotic lesions to brown recluse or hobo spider bites in Canada. Hobo Spiders (Tegenaria agrestis) ****Medically insignificant YOU have to do the reading! These are scientifically based, accurate studies with information related to spider bites. These stories are sensationalized and inaccurate. Don’t listen to someone’s tall tale of horror. Let’s end all the misinformation and our arachnophobia. #PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRANSLUCENT SPIDER UPDATE#
Scared of Spiders? Here’s a go-to info-sheet (that I plan to update as time allows) with links to verifiable, research-backed Spider Information/Literature.
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