Monday, October 6th, 2008
As University student Kandace Simmons got ready for work, she felt the sensation of a bee sting on her leg after she put her pants on straight out of the laundry basket.
“I felt the spider bite me. It looked like an ant bite – a little blister came up immediately,” Simmons said.
She said she smashed the tiny inhabitant of her jeans the moment she felt it bite and never saw what it looked like.
It would later be determined as the bite of a brown recluse spider.
Don W. Killebrew, chairman of the University’s biology department, is a well-known spider enthusiast.