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(#5) Brown Recluse Spiders Took Over A School
In July 2015, alarmed officials at Montgomery Elementary School in Mercersburg, PA, held an emergency meeting. They decided to shut down the building after discovering an infestation of Brown Recluse spiders in "isolated areas" of the school. Brown Recluses' bites are poisonous and can eat away at skin tissue surrounding the bite area.
The meeting included school officials, the superintendent, the school board, and the district's pest control company, and a plan was enacted to eradicate the creepy problem. The issue was apparently so bad that the pest control company proposed two extreme treatments to get rid of the spiders.
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(#2) An Infestation Of Over 4,500 Brown Recluses Forced A Family To Leave Home
In October 2014, a Missouri family was driven from their home after it was infested with between 4,500 and 6,000 Brown Recluse spiders. The family tried to solve the problem with pesticide treatments to no avail, so they packed up and abandoned their 2,400-square-foot home.
The Trost family purchased the home in 2007 for $450,000 and noticed a spider web during the first day in the house. Susan Trost said she attempted to clean the spiders away, but they kept coming back and forced the family to leave. They sued the previous homeowners for not disclosing the spider problem, and were awarded $472,000, although they never collected; the previous homeowners, the Gaults, had no way of paying.
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(#8) A Utah Family Found Hundreds Of Spiders Inside Their Deck
The Savage family in Midvale, UT, were terrified when they found hundreds of spiders outside their home in late 2015. Several different kinds of spiders were discovered, including Hobo, Grass, Wolf and Black Widow spiders. When they first noticed some of the arachnids, the family decided to investigate and ultimately uncovered hundreds of them inside their porch.
"The first day that we went out there and started actually hunting for them, we got 15 of them within an hour," Tami Savage said. The mother added there really wasn't much they could do to completely rid their deck of the horrifying problem.
"Unless we were to seal off all the way around the deck, getting rid of the railroad ties [on the deck] will only get rid of part of the problem," she said.
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(#11) A Couple Was Attacked By Venomous Hobo Spiders
In 2014, Bristol, UK resident Liam Forrester discovered a bite on his left arm that resulted in a deep, infected wound. After suffering the spider attack, Forrester found out the poisonous Hobo spiders had invaded his home. The arachnid epidemic was so bad that it prompted Forrester and his partner, Kirsty Garland, to consider moving out of their home and in with family.
"They are horrible, vile things. I found one in the bath last week, and when I put a pint glass over it, its long legs just filled up the whole glass," Garland said:
They don't seem to be scared to run at us either, they run towards us and seem very aggressive. When you corner them they rear up their legs. Their bodies are pretty much normal size but it's the legs – the front legs are the size of your hand. If we can't get rid of them I just want to move because we've got three children and I don't want them to be bitten.
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(#7) A Teenager Found A Massive Spider And Its Babies Hanging Out On Her Wall
A British teen joked that she wanted to burn her house down after she found a gigantic spider and its babies hanging out in a web on her bedroom wall. The Yorkshire, England, girl – named Lydia – posted photos of the terrifying scene on Twitter and said her "heart actually stopped beating" when she first happened upon the horrific spider family in August 2017.
While some Twitter users quipped the spiders should be paying rent to live in her room, others advised that she set her house on fire.
"The male spiders come out the woodwork during this time of year as it is breeding season and they are searching for female spiders," pest controller Steve McGrail said. "They are actually there in the home at other times of year but they are hidden away – under the floor, in the attic, in the basement. If you find them, it’s pretty much impossible to rid your house of them."
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(#9) A Man Caught Hundreds Of Spiders Crawling Out Of His Wall
A UK pest controller observed hundreds of spiders making a home inside of his wall and then crawling out of it – exposing their "glowing green" fangs.
Grant Wood said he first found the spiders a year before a video of the infestation went viral, and there were around 100 discovered. They quadrupled since then, with almost 400 spiders living in his wall by 2017.
"Most people's reaction to seeing them is, 'f*ck that,' everyone has been quite shocked by it," he said. "A lot of people can't believe they are actually a UK spider. They are like a mini-tarantula. The spiders aren't aggressive but other people have definitely been scared."
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Local people in Australia know that apart from poisonous snakes, there are many poisonous insects to guard against. Many people know that Australia is the world of spiders. According to media reports, all spiders in Australia can eat up the entire Australian population within a year, and the total amount of food they eat far exceeds human body weight. In fact, there are a lot of reports of spider infestation disasters around the world.
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