Spider Bite

[Lox]

Necrotic Cock sounds like a death metal song.

[Tronic]

Or a sport climb in Calico.

[Cardboard_Dog]

I had a very similar bite in my ear after a trad climb in the Gunks a few years ago. since there are no recorded brown recluse bites in the NE but quite a few that looked like BR bites I did some research and found this http://entomology.wsu.edu/insectoftheweek/archive/yellowsacspider.html

it turned purple and black and somewhat necrotic but healed fully and never left a scar. You should be alright if its a sac spider. If it's recluse could get alot worse.

[automated]

so does Inward Helmet of Nails. wait...what are we talking about?...

Necrotic Cock sounds like a death metal song.

[AlwaysLimping]

I had a very similar bite in my ear after a trad climb in the Gunks a few years ago. since there are no recorded brown recluse bites in the NE but quite a few that looked like BR bites I did some research and found this http://entomology.wsu.edu/insectoftheweek/archive/yellowsacspider.html

it turned purple and black and somewhat necrotic but healed fully and never left a scar. You should be alright if its a sac spider. If it's recluse could get alot worse.

had a yellow sac bite on my foot a couple months ago...couldnt believe how bad it got. Took my sock off after work and a bunch of skin came off with it. I felt like goldblum in the Fly.

[Cardboard_Dog]

I had a very similar bite in my ear after a trad climb in the Gunks a few years ago. since there are no recorded brown recluse bites in the NE but quite a few that looked like BR bites I did some research and found this http://entomology.wsu.edu/insectoftheweek/archive/yellowsacspider.html

it turned purple and black and somewhat necrotic but healed fully and never left a scar. You should be alright if its a sac spider. If it's recluse could get alot worse.

had a yellow sac bite on my foot a couple months ago...couldnt believe how bad it got. Took my sock off after work and a bunch of skin came off with it. I felt like goldblum in the Fly.

They are no joke. Most of the bites north of Virginia that are associated with BR are most likely the sac spider. I couldnt believe how bad it got either. I thought I was going to lose half my ear. On a positive note, the spider bite forced me to stop wearing bandanas while climbing which, was a turning point for me personally. Really, there are only two kinds of people who wear bandanas ..