Deserts of the Southwest are not desolate expanses of sand as many personsbelieve. This photograph, showing vegetation in Organ Pipe Cactus NationalMonument, Arizona, is a typical illustration of the variety and density of plantgrowth in the Sonoran desert area of northwestern Mexico and southwesternArizona.

POISONOUS
DWELLERS
OF THE DESERT

by NATT N. DODGE

TWELFTH EDITION (revised), 1970

Published in co-operation with the National Park Service bythe Southwest Parks and Monuments Association in keepingwith one of its objectives, to provide accurate and authenticinformation about the Southwest.

Southwest Parks and Monuments AssociationGlobe, Arizona(formerly Southwestern Monuments Association)

Copyright, 1952, by the Southwestern Monuments Association
Box 1562, Gila Pueblo, Globe, Arizona 85501

Published October 21, 1947
Second printing, revised, October, 1948
Third printing, revised, December, 1948
Fourth printing, revised, January, 1952
Fifth printing, June, 1953
Sixth printing, March, 1955
Seventh printing, December, 1957
Eighth printing, revised, January, 1961
Ninth printing, revised, March, 1964
Tenth printing, June, 1966
Eleventh printing, August, 1968
Twelfth printing, revised, August, 1970

Printed in the United States of America
by PABSCO Printing and Business Supply Co.
Globe, Arizona

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS vi

EDITORIAL NOTE ABOUT INSECTICIDES vii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii

GIANT DESERT CENTIPEDE 3

SCORPIONS 4

Treatment of scorpion stings 6

Where scorpions live 7

BLACK WIDOW SPIDER 7

Where black widows live 8

Black widow bites 9

Treatment of black widow bites 9

Control of black widows 10

BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER 10

Where found 11

The brown recluse bite 11

Treatment for bite of the brown recluse spider 12

TARANTULAS 13

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