2012年4月15日 星期日

What to Do If You Get Bit by a Poisonous Spider?


The majority of spider bites are harmless and the symptoms are usually just a mild irritation.

POISONOUS SPIDERS:

The bites from the brown recluse and black widow spiders can cause a serious reaction and could even be life threatening.

PREVENTION:

When working in areas such as attics, crawl spaces, garages, wood piles or anywhere there is likely to be an infestation, dress accordingly. Long sleeves, pants, shoes and socks, gloves should be worn. When working with boxes, fabrics and anything that has been stored for long periods of time, be aware there could be spiders.

WHAT IS A BLACK WIDOW SPIDER?:

A black widow spider is black, small and shiny. They are button shaped with a red hour-glass mark on their stomachs. They can usually be found in warmer climates. Their bites can release a toxin that can damage the nervous system and require immediate medical attention.

BLACK WIDOW SPIDER BITE SYMPTOMS MAY INCLUDE:

Immediate burning pain, swelling and redness to the affected area (double-fang marks may be present).

Headache and dizziness.

Rash and itching.

Cramping pain in stomach, chest, back and shoulders.

Sweating.

Eyelid swelling.

Nausea and vomiting.

Tearing of the eyes.

Tremors, weakness, or paralysis (commonly in your legs).

These symptoms may resemble other conditions or medical problems, consult your doctor for a diagnosis.

WHAT IS A BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER?:

A brown recluse spider, also know as a violin spider, is approximately one inch long and has a mark the shape of a violin on its upper back. It is usually found in warm, dry climates and usually stays in undisturbed areas, such as closets, attics and basements. They are not aggressive spiders, but if trapped or held against the skin they can bite and release a poisonous

toxin.

BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER BITE SYMPTOMS:

Pain, burning, itching or redness at the affected area which usually is delayed and may develop hours or days later.

Around the affected area, a deep blue or purple color may appear surrounded by a white ring and larger outer red ring which can look like a "bulls eye".

Body aches and headache.

A blister or ulcer that turns black.

Rash.

Fever.

Nausea or vomiting.

These symptoms may resemble other conditions or medical problems, consult your doctor for a diagnosis.

TREATMENT FOR POISONOUS SPIDER BITES:

Wash the affected area well with soap and water.

Administer an Ice/pack to the affected area.

Apply an antibiotic or lotion or cream to protect against infection, (especially children).

Give a pain reliever for pain (consult with your doctor).

To help prevent swelling, elevate the affected area 12 inches, if it is an arm or leg.

Get immediate medical attention for further treatment to avoid most serious complications, especially in children.

Anti-venom may be used for black widow spider bites.

WHAT TO DO IF SOMEONE IS HAVING A SEVERE ALLERGIC REACTION?:

Call 9-1-1 or take the victim to the hospital immediately.

Check the victims breath, if they are not breathing, begin CPR for Adults. If the victim is an infant, begin CPR for Infants. If the victim is a child, begin CPR for Children.

Remove restrictive clothing and jewelry, in case of swelling.

If a EpiPen is available, check with your doctor before using it.

If the victim shows signs of shock, which may include these symptoms, bluish lips and fingernails, shallow breathing, sweating or a pale complexion, elevate both feet approximately 12 inches.

A tourniquet should not be used.

Do not give children aspirin or pain medications unless advised by a doctor.

If possible, bring the dead spider with you for the doctor to identify.




Paul Laris is an author and advisor on Emergency, Disaster and First Aid information. His website EmergencySuppliesInfo.com, will give you up to date information and videos on what to do before, during and after an Emergency.





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Warning! Spiders Invade Homes During Winter


During the cold winter months everyone needs a place to stay warm, including those nasty eight legged critters called spiders. They also need a place to find food as other critters move inside for winter and you can bet your house is the perfect place!

Though spiders are unpleasant looking and frightening, most are harmless. Even if they do bite the result is usually a minor irritation to the skin. However, some spiders can be extremely aggressive and their venom can be extremely dangerous. Here are two poisonous spiders that you'll want to look out for this:

Dangerous Spiders

Black Widow: the Black Widow is known for the red markings on its underbelly. Their venom is 15 times more deadly than a rattlesnake's, and can cause muscle aches, nausea, and a paralysis of the diaphragm that can make breathing difficult. Contrary to popular belief, these spider bites cause no serious damage to most people. However, bites can be particularly fatal to small children and the elderly. Fun fact: the Black Widow got its name because the female will often kill and eat their mate after courting.

Brown Recluse: if there is any other spider in the world that terrifies me, it's the Brown Recluse. If this statement confuses you, I suggest you research 'Brown Recluse' spider bite pictures online and then you'll know what I'm talking about. These spiders typically hide out in houses and bite when people are peacefully sleeping. Their bites can turn from a painful red bump to a massive annihilation of the skin that can get so severe that bone is exposed in seven to ten days. It's important to note that the majority of brown recluse spider bites do not result in any symptoms, but because these bites can get so severe its worth checking out pictures online to know what this spider looks like and if they dwell in your area.

How to Protect Your Home from Deadly Spiders

In order to adequately protect your family and even your pets don't wait for a large spider invasion or a painful bite to secure your home, especially if you're living in an area where either of these spiders hide out.




For all your Utah pest control needs contact a licensed technician.

Shannon Egan





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2012年4月14日 星期六

What Your Favorite Color Signifies


Psychoanalysts relate that the color a person most favors, reveals moods and mood swings. They suggest that the very colors themselves have a direct effect on our state of mind.

Beige:

A tannish grey color exhibits impartiality. Though you certainly are not of a boisterous nature, many have a difficulty in understanding just what exactly your nature is.

Black:

The color of night, this darkness betokens a lack of warmth and often clear mindedness, often being in a funeral disposition. Grieving for yourself and others because you are in a negative state of being, it is difficult for you to see the light. Analysts suggest a correlation between acute depression and the choice of the color black-as this is actually devoid of any color-life

Blue:

As serene as the sky and sea, your desire is to be at peace with yourself. The sky and the sea are mostly empty bodies, reflecting the person's desire to be unbothered by others.

Brown:

Signifying loss and hopelessness, it is difficult for you to break away from these gloomy feelings. Realism is associated with this color choice, as it reflects the color of the earth. Some anal eroticism may be present as this is the color of the feces.

Gold Or Silver:

These colors have always been associated with wealth, feeling up, owing to the metals that they mirror.

Gray:

Gray subconsciously denotes respect for elders and the wisdom that comes with it, it can nevertheless be associated with one's feeling washed up and exhausted.

Green:

Reflecting springtime, you are always in the mood to start anew. Although you can be down at times, it is very easy for you to spring back into action. The color most associated

with life and relaxation, is has been said that a room colored so has an emotionally calming affect.

Purple:

Even if you cannot draw a straight line, you see life as an artist. You'd be defined as an eccentric, sometimes even a recluse. You surely have made an impact.

Red:

The blood in your guts announces your excitement to all. You can be very up and very down and almost simultaneously. Your love of life is great, unless someone happens to get in the way. Associated with tension and fear, psychologists suggest that the color reflects the anxiety of getting hurt seeing blood.

White:

You feel and crave purity. Although your home may be in disarray, you certainly would prefer it to be tidy. The one who desires to be taintless-virtuous prefers this color.

Yellow:

Reflecting the color of the sun, its role of giving light and warmth from above, this signifies a deep spiritual though not necessarily religious nature. The stimulation that affects the intellect that is said to be associated with this bright color, may be due to the color's association with the sun-the heavenly body that is above us-enlightening everything.




Joel Engel is the author of "Handwriting Analysis Self-Taught" (Penguin Books) http://careertest.ws - http://www.learngraphology.com





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Tips on Keeping Away From Spiders


Most of the time, spiders do not bite human beings and they are very beneficial in killing different kinds of insects, some of which are harmful for humans. However, you may still be afraid of them for their ugly appearance and the small feet. And every time you see them, you will want to make them go away from your house. Then the following are some useful methods or suggestions for you.

Firstly, you should check out the food resource of the spiders. More often, the spiders live on different kinds of insects and they make a place as their home for the reason that there is enough food resource for them. And the number of the spiders depends on the amount of the food there. Therefore, you should check out the food resource first and then try to lessen them; as a result, the number of the spiders will decrease too. What is more, wipe your whole house and keep it clean will be a good way to get rid of small insects.

Secondly, you are required to make the place where they make nests less attractive to them. the most common type of spiders can be the brown recluse spiders. Their legs are long and they like to stay in the dark areas which cannot be so easy to be found. More often, they will move everywhere to hunt for food. It may really make people troublesome is that they often hide in the papers, bedding, corners and even in the clothing. Sometimes, you will be scared a lot when they suddenly appear in front of you. In order to keep this kind of spiders away, you should search in every corner of your house and try to make their favorite places less attractive to make any nests.

Most of the times, spiders will not bite you unless you make them feel that they are in great danger. Unfortunately, if you are bite by a brown recluse spider, you will feel very painful and it needs some time to heal. You do not need to worry too much about it because most of the bites are not fatal. However, if you are attacked by the poisonous spiders, you may need the help of the doctors.




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2012年4月13日 星期五

Where Did All These Brown Recluse Spiders Come From?


Recluse: "shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion."

That's what my dictionary says. I just checked.

So the brown recluse spider lives hidden away from everybody? I mean that word "recluse" is right there in the spider's name. I take that to mean it's a shy insect.

But you sure can't tell that based on my recent clean up activities.

Over the years I stacked stuff into my barn, and it just kept piling up in there, so I decided recently to launch a "cleanup and organize" effort. It's so bad that I discarded some of the stuff before I could even get into the door.

Ever done anything like that and got a big surprise (or scare) you weren't ready for?

I had a set of chrome wheels, two with old tires on them, stored out there for a number of years. Since they'd sat there so long I figured I'd never use them, and decided the time had come for them to go.

As I started taking the tire off one of them a whole herd of brown recluse spiders went scrambling, and sent me jumping backward away from that wheel.

My time as a pest control technician familiarized me so well with the way these pests look that I recognize them quickly.

Most people look at them and just see spiders. Brown recluse have distinctively long legs that I came to associate with the species, but I took a while of studying these spiders before I learned to identify them without looking for the fiddle outline on their backs.

Anyway, as I watched that wheel I saw a number of adult recluse spiders, and a whole swarm of babies, go scurrying.

I don't think I ever saw that many brown recluse spiders in one place before.

The first recluse spiders I saw as a newbie pest control technician were rather reclusive. That was over 10-years ago. As I walked up to the spot where they built their webs I'd catch a motion, and only get a quick glance at the spider.

Most every time the spider headed for cover as soon as it spotted me walking toward its home.

Back then, in my early days of pest control, I only suspected I'd found a recluse. Only further inspection verified the insect as a recluse spider, and often that closer inspection means you're too close if you're untrained and inexperienced in pest control techniques.

These days those spiders don't dart for hiding spots so fast anymore. Seems to me they get bolder all the time.

Maybe it's because there are so many of them around. In my early pest control days the company entomologist told me that people rarely seen brown recluse spiders in the Midwest. He said they didn't live here in very large numbers.

I found that claim was just not true. Once I learned to recognize the recluse I started seeing them too often for comfort, and now I see them every time I go into my barn. I've even found them in my house.

Probably the only reason I see so many is my trained ability to recognize them, and if I'd never worked as a pest control technician I wouldn't know that I have brown recluse. Might be I'd never have a problem with them, but sometimes I get awful close to these insects, and if I didn't know what they are I'd get even close enough to get bit.

That's a scary thought.

I suggest if you're planning a cleaning job of your own in an area that sat cluttered for a year or more you take some special precautions.

Study some pictures of brown recluse spiders to get used to what they look like, and make sure you wear gloves when you perform your cleaning task. They can't bite through a good thick glove.

Be careful of brown recluse spiders when you're cleaning items from collected piles. They have a real nasty bite.




Joseph Jackson is an experienced pest control technician and author of SPIDER RIDDANCE, a how to guide for performing do-it-yourself pest control for controlling spiders.

Find other pest control ebooks by Joe at http://www.bugsmiceratsnomore.com





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Two Different Types of Spiders and Information on Removal


No matter where in this country you live, spiders can be a serious problem. Most people don't realize that there are two distinct types of spiders, the first type of spiders are the web building spiders. These spiders like to spin webs in areas that are avoided by people, but where they might happened upon a nice, juicy, fly. Common places to find web building spiders are in the upper corner of neglected rooms, inside closets, under the eaves of homes and in storage sheds.

In addition to web building spiders there are also hunting spiders. These are spiders that leave the protection of their home to find and kill their own prey. Examples of hunting spiders are wolf spiders, brown recluse spiders and jumping spiders. These spiders spend most of their time hunting others of their kind, crickets, moths, flies, and cockroaches.

Hunting spiders don't usually travel very far from the place that they live, whether it be in a burrow, under the couch, under the refrigerator or in the garage. It is not uncommon for these species to find ways in between the walls of your home and spend most of their time there.

Among these two groups you will find various types that are considered poisonous enough to be a danger to small children and pets. Occasionally you will run into a species that can actually harm full grown adults such as Black Widows and Brown Recluses.

The most poisonous species in the United States is the Black Widow. This species has venom that has been compared to a cobra snake in regards to potency. However, the Black Widow is rarely involved bites that result in death because of the relatively small size of the spider. While a cobra, when it bites you, injects a large amount of venom, a Black Widow only injects a very small amount.

Nevertheless, it is highly recommend that if you, or anyone you know, is bitten by one of these that you should go to the hospital immediately. Some people believe that prior to the invention of Black Widow antivenin, that almost 5% of all bites resulted in death.

The Brown Recluse is the most poisonous hunting spider in the United States. While their bites are seldom, if ever, deadly, they do tend to kill the skin around the bite area. In addition to killing the skin a Brown Recluse bite can also be very painful and become extremely itchy.

It is not uncommon to hear people state that the presence of spiders in your home is a good thing because they act to limit the numbers of other insects, bugs and pests. This is untrue however. When comparing the various types of bugs and insects that can be inside your home, spiders are the last kind that you want. They hide in dark areas and commonly bite when threatened.

The best way to make your home free of spiders and other insects is through a regular maintenance spray of pesticide chemicals. You can either purchase diluted portions of chemical to spray yourself or you can hire a professional pest control provider.




There are companies that provide professional pest control in all 50 states. Before you choose to do-it-yourself with a more intensive type of extermination procedure, such as scorpion removal, it is highly recommended that you speak to a professional.





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