What ticks me off (no pun intended) is the knee jerk reaction of the so called bug experts around here. Twice I've taken dead spiders into the offices of these specialists and asked if this was perhaps a "brown recluse" spider. Each time, without even looking at the critter, they both responded with ... "There ain't no brown recluse in western Washington."

I've actually known five men here that have been bitten by brown recluse. Two of them were Safeway produce men who got bitten as they were unpacking fruit from Eastern Washington. And as I said before, two others died.

And as Brucie pointed out in the posting just above, the hobo spider is one of the deadlist kinds.

Just like a lady I knew a hundred years ago ... the smallest can sometimes be the deadliest!!!! Bob