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fact vs fiction.
- Source :
- Pest Management Professional; Feb2011, Vol. 79 Issue 2, p43-43, 2/3p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The article offers facts and fiction related to spiders. It states that spiders do not bite humans for feeding and nursery purposes. It considers the ability of an average person to swallow eight spiders in a lifetime as a mythical belief. It mentions that 90 percent of incidents involving the bite of brown recluses spiders can be healed with no severe injury or skin damage despite the danger and that spider bite is rare.
- Subjects :
- SPIDER bites
BROWN recluse spider
SPIDER anatomy
SKIN diseases
MYTH
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19399227
- Volume :
- 79
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Pest Management Professional
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 58663872