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Cigar
10-10-2014, 05:02 PM
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A family was driven from their suburban St. Louis home by thousands of venomous spiders that fell from the ceiling and oozed from the walls.

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Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club in Weldon Spring in October 2007 and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/ZToLma) reported . Once when showering, Susan Trost dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.


She told St. Louis television station KMOV-TV in 2012 the spiders "started bleeding out of the walls," and at least two pest control companies were unable to eradicate the infestation.


The couple filed a claim in 2008 with their insurance company, State Farm, and a lawsuit against the home's previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem.
At a civil trial in St. Charles County in October 2011, University of Kansas biology professor Jamel Sandidge — considered one of the nation's leading brown recluse researchers — estimated there were between 4,500 and 6,000 spiders in the home. Making matters worse, he said, those calculations were made in the winter when the spiders are least active.


The jury awarded the couple slightly more than $472,000, but the former owners declared bankruptcy, the insurance company still didn't pay anything and the couple moved out two years ago.


The home, now owned by the Federal National Mortgage Association, was covered with nine tarps this week and workers filled it with a gas that permeated the walls to kill the spiders and their eggs.


"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.



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I'd Blow The MotherSucker Up

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sachem
10-10-2014, 05:23 PM
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momsapplepie
10-10-2014, 06:30 PM
YIKES! I'd be tenting that sucker again in about 6 weeks just to make sure!

Redrose
10-10-2014, 06:37 PM
We had a home in Florida for 12 years on a golf course. We had a scorpion problem and snakes. The scorpions came from all the pine trees lining the course, we were told they lay eggs in the bark. The snakes were driven off the course into the yards by all the chemicals used. We never did control either problem completely. The new owners didn't seem to be worried, they wanted golf course in Florida.

Green Arrow
10-10-2014, 06:50 PM
I'd burn it down!

Redrose
10-10-2014, 09:32 PM
Ever step on a spider and thousands of baby spiders come crawling out?

I hate spiders. I have two nasty spider bites on my arm right now. One may be brown recluse, so we're keeping a close eye on the wound.

Matty
10-10-2014, 10:09 PM
Ever step on a spider and thousands of baby spiders come crawling out?

I hate spiders. I have two nasty spider bites on my arm right now. One may be brown recluse, so we're keeping a close eye on the wound.
Heebie jeebies!

Redrose
10-10-2014, 10:15 PM
Matalese

one bite is every color of the rainbow, itches like crazy, very swollen, size of a small grape. The other is a true bullseye, pale in the center with a bite mark in the center. The curcumference is a blue/black and expanding. Today it's about 2" in diameter. I called my doctor and they said just watch it. ????? That one doesn't itch or hurt.

Peter1469
10-11-2014, 08:07 AM
Even in the army people bite with that spider went to the hospital. That and black widows. I wouldn't mess around with it. I am the last person to go to a doc.

Private Pickle
10-11-2014, 09:00 AM
They got screwed.

Polecat
10-11-2014, 09:23 AM
I heard of a place out west that was built on top of a scorpion nesting/mating area that could not be recovered. Like salmon returning to the stream they hatched from. If the spiders do this kind of thing too the house is doomed.