Brown Recluse
Showing Up Around Fences
The poisonous spider population is growing quickly in the Pacific
Northwest.
KOIN 6 News
reports that brown recluse spiders, also known as hobo spiders,
are turning up in large numbers in Eugene.
The spiders,
which have a violin-shaped marking behind their eyes, live along
fences and in house foundations. They spin webs to catch bugs.
"This
year I've run into a lot more than normal. Must be the warm winter
we had. But in the Pacific Northwest, they're finding these everywhere,
and the bite is the same as a brown recluse or a fiddleback from
back east," property inspector Jake Geier tells KOIN.
The bites,
which are not usually fatal, start small but can grow to look
like a large cigarette burn as the tissue dies.
Antibiotics
are usually necessary to treat bites, the television station reports.
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