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ANN ARBOR, Michigan – Staff at a University of Michigan library temporarily closed the building after three poisonous spiders found themselves in a storage area in the basement.
Mediterranean recluse spiders were found in late January in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on the school’s Ann Arbor campus. The library reopened on Tuesday after being closed on Sunday and treated Monday for spiders.
The spiders were not in any public space, university spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen said, and staff closed the building due to misunderstanding and extreme caution.
Spider bites can cause problems ranging from minor skin irritation to tissue death, according to Anne Danielson-Francois, a professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, who identified an adult male spider that was caught in a glue trap in the library.
“You are unlikely to be in any danger unless you are in close contact,” she told the Detroit Free Press. “But if you’re the plumber crawling through a crawl space that’s got a lot of these spiders, then you might get bitten, and that would be worrying.” But just wandering around the library piles is a very, very low risk. “
The Mediterranean recluse has been hitchhiking with people around the world and has been found in 22 states, Danielson-Francois told WJBK-TV.
They love caves and can be found in basements and boiler rooms.
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