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It was interesting to read about the brown recluse in the current Yard &
Garden Line News. I have not seen one here in Minnesota, but we lived
in Kansas when were were first married. It seemed like there were bugs
all over the place there.
The first place we lived (an old hotel converted to small apartments) if
I woke up during the night, I would turn on the light, count to 5, and
then open my eyes. The counting to 5 was to give a chance for all the
bugs to run and hide. The exterminator came once a month, but I never
noticed fewer numbers of crawly things. We moved to a side by side
duplex, and the exterminator came once a month there, too.
One Saturday morning the exterminator. after spraying all the crevices
in the kitchen, came over to where I was sitting at the kitchen table
near several windows and asked me if he could have what he was pointing
at. It was a small spider soaked with insecticide, crawling drunk-like
out of the woodwork around one of the windows. I asked what it was and
what he wanted it for. He said it was a brown recluse, and he wanted it
for the display board he had in the front window of his extermination
business. ICK. I imagined for many months that I would lose some part
of my body due to an infected bite, or worse yet, be found dead some
morning--cause of death: brown recluse spider bite. That never
happened, of course, and the worst thing that happened to me related to
insects was the time I by mistake grabbed a can of bug spray and sprayed
my hair with it before I left for work.
Older and wiser Weezi
Dakota County MG
