I have a little story to share with you.
The past couple nights I've been dealing with mosquito bites that just won't quit itching. I thought my legs were going to be torn to shreds the past couple mornings because I scratched them all night long. It's been making me crazy! Normally a mosquito bite is a bit irritating, no big deal. But I have 17 bites on one leg, 9 on the other and 2 on my left arm. I even complained to my husband about them, which I normally wouldn't do. Anti-itch cream hasn't helped a bit. So....
This morning I made my bed as usual. A while later I went in there and noticed that the sheet was hanging down below the comforter, so I lifted it up to tuck the sheet in better. I was talking to my husband on the phone at the time, and I started screaming. There was a huge, dark, thick legged, nasty, ugly, creepy, disgusting, wolf spider there on the sheet. Dan about freaked out not knowing why I was screaming. Ben, Noah and the daycare kids came running in and all I could do was point at the evil thing on my bed!
I was finally able to blubber out to Dan that there was a horrid spider in our bed and that thing had been crawling on me at night, biting me, making me itch. The kids thought it was a great, amusing display of emotion and started laughing, screaming and running up and down the hallway yelling, "Spider! Spider!" I got off the phone with Dan, grabbed a bottle of RAID and sprayed half a can on the filthy beast. Then we grabbed a book and took care of it for good. One of my brave daycare girls volunteered to pick the remains with a tissue and flush it.
I continued to squeal, wiggle and freak for another 15 minutes or so. I've continued to let out a squeal here and there as the memory enters my mind today. And I keep feeling spiders on me. So much for telling the kids about how good spiders are for eating mosquitoes for us!!! My actions, I'm sure, removed every positive word I'd ever uttered about them. Cara called at the tail end of it and was able to witness (by audio) the remaining minutes of my reaction to our uninvited bed guest. EEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!! It was HORRID!
I can hardly stand to look at these, but I thought I'd share:
Info on Wolf Spiders:
Hogna is the genus with the largest of the wolf spiders. Among the Hogna species in the U.S., the nearly solid dark brown H. carolinensis is the largest, with a body that can be more than one inch long. It is sometimes confused with H. helluo (pictured below), which is somewhat smaller and entirely different in coloration.
Some members of the Lycosidae, such as H. carolinensis (called the Carolina wolf spider despite the fact that its range covers much of the U.S.) make deep tubular burrows in and around which they lurk much of the time. Others, such as H. helluo, seek shelter under convenient rocks and other such shelters as nature may provide. They may wander from place to place, and are therefore more likely to be the ones attracted into human habitation when the weather starts to turn colder in autumn
Wolf spiders are not aggressive but will inject venom freely if continually provoked. Symptoms of their venomous bite include swelling, mild pain and itching. Though usually considered harmless to humans, the bite of some species may be painful.
Final Note: Dan didn't get one bite. I'm assuming it's because I use a honey lemon body lotion after showering, and he, of course doesn't.
.... I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight.
FREAKED Out!
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