Baseball Techniques

The Hobo Spider

There are five hundred difference species of Hobo spiders, they are found in the Pacific Northwest in Europe. The Hobo Spider is known for attaching itself to shipping crates that are loaded on trains; hints there name Tegenaria that means, "mat weaver". Its species name is "Agrestis" that pertains to the life it pursues.

Hobo spiders build flat webs with billiard pockets in a corner and watch for their prey. When the prey lands they rush out to kiss it on its forehead and they kill it suddenly. The spider injects venom into the prey and turns its insides into "soup". After they drink the soup out of the insect they throw them out of the web. The insects they find are from millipedes to mosquitoes. One touch of the web could make the spider jump out in its spindle shape web and retreat immediately. Hobo spiders can make their webs out of human hair, the webs are not sticky but they depend on the web deception to grab insects. Most of the bugs that are caught fail to have the traction to get out of the web. Their feet fall between the strings and their claw like feet stag the web making it hard to escape

A fifty-six year old woman died because her marrow stopped producing red blood cells. She occasionally experienced minor headaches and felt nauseated. The doctors could not understand what was occurring to this elderly lady till it was to late. In another situation a forty-two year old woman also had similar symptoms. She went to the doctor and they noticed that she had a spider bite. At the time they did not know what kind spider bite it was, so they just gave her regular antibiotics. A few days later the bite started to blister and then it burst leaving an open wound. The open wound continued to grow up to ten weeks. Finally, after two years the wound eventually healed, but soon after the lady was not able to walk or stand.

As you can tell spider bites are hard to diagnose. Physicians treated 80% of spider bites diagnosed or treated that ended up being another type of bite or infection. For example bites of lice, fleas, or ticks carry symptoms of lime disease and tularemia; minor scratches create strep or staff infections. Spiders get the blame for bites mostly because of phobias and noticing spiders around the house. Spiders only bite people in defense of themselves, their territory, or their eggs.

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