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Student studies spiders
Mike Campbell Special to the Kansas
James Sandidge is researching the habits of the brown recluse
Jamel Sandidge wants to help you avoid brown recluse spiders. He also wants to know if you need to worry about avoiding them in the first place.
The Madison Heights, Virginia graduate student is part of a national research project investigating both the habits of the spiders and the overdiagnosis of their bites.
"There are about 8,000 brown recluse bites reported every year in the U.S." Sandige said, "but maybe as many as 60 to 80 percent of those supposed bites are actually symptoms of other problems."
One of Sandridge's goals is to find out the temperature, humidity and other conditions under which the spiders can live and reproduce. This information will tell scientists where in the country they might expect to find brown recluses.
Any bites reported outside these areas would then be good candidates to re-examine as possible misdiagnoses, according to Sandidge. He did caution that stray spiders could pop up almost anywhere.
"People carry recluses all over the place without meaning to. The spiders like people, and they are good at hiding in places like boxes, clothes, and even shipments of wood—that's why they're called recluses," he said.
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Sandridge is also curious about the spider's lifestyle and how it may help recluses live in homes.
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He discovered a quirk in the diet of brown recluses. Unlike most spiders, brown recluses eat dead bugs.
This means that fumigating may actually help brown recluses.
"Insecticides are meant for insects, which spiders are not. Most insecticides don't harm the spiders, but they do kill lots of insects, which the brown recluses are happy to eat," Sandidge said.
He also suspects that the spiders may be up to some reproductive tricks. Most animals that mate with close relatives run a large risk of having offspring with serious birth defects.
However, some insects and spiders can inbreed with few consequences. Sandidge wants to know if brown recluses belong to this privileged, and much harder to eradicate, group.
"If they can't inbreed, you would only have to treat outside your house to control the spiders. Your only worry would be new spiders coming in and adding to the breeding stock. On the other hand, if they can inbreed, you would have to treat everywhere, inside and out," he said.
Sandiidge has collected over 100,000 spiders from houses throughout the south-central U.S. to look for evidence of inbreeding. He collects the spiders on sticky-traps made of
cardboard coated with glue.
Most houses only yield a few spiders, but another researcher on the project collected 2,000 at a single house.
If you have brown recluses in your house, they are most likely to be in the attic, according to Sandidge. The spiders like the warm, dry conditions they can find up there.
Wherever they live, these spiders can be hard to get rid of. Sandidge said brown recluses can live six months without air or water and perhaps a year without food.
Brown recluses have small bodies, about the diameter of a pencil eraser, with legs that can sprawl to twice the diameter of a quarter, Sandidge said. He also said that they typically sit in a hunched position, with their long legs curled near their body.
Sandidge also recommended that people not rely for identification on the violin-shaped mark that some brown recluses have on their back. Many recluses lack some or all of this mark, he said.
Sandidge is working with Rick Vetter, a staff research associate at the University of California-Riverside. Vetter has found that misdiagnosis of brown recluse bites is very common in California, where the spider does not live.
Among the problems misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites, Vetter has found chemical burns, herpes sores, diabetic ulcers, and syphilis sores.
Contact Campbell at shamsoup@hotmail.com
Grateful Dead members plan fall tour
By Carrie Antlfinger Associated Press Writer
licist and biographer.
McNally said Aug. 5 he didn't know when tickets would go on sale for the 15-show tour in November and December.
EAST TROY, Wis. (AP) — Since things went so well during the Aug. 3 weekend reunion of the Grateful Dead's surviving members, the band has decided to go ahead with a fall tour.
"All I can say is that the fall tour was set and approved contingent on a good weekend and since it was a far better than good weekend I am certainly confident the shows will go," said Dennis McNally, the band's pub-
Thousands of Deadheads converged on East Troy (pop. 2,600) — a small city tucked between farm fields 40 miles southwest of Milwaukee — to see the remaining members of the Grateful Dead, now known as The Other Ones.
Aug. 3 was the first time Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phill Lesh and
Bob Weir joined forces for a major concert since founder and lead singer Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack in 1995
The show suffered a setback in June, when Walworth County officials denied a permit, fearing authorities couldn't handle the estimated 200,000 people it might draw for a venue that could only hold about 35,000.
The promoter, Clear Channel Entertainment, submitted a new plan with tighter security and emergency procedures and officials changed their minds.
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