Topic about Spiders, ever been bitten, how bad was it?

LadyEmeraude

LadyEmeraude

Washington State, USA
I hate spiders! I react with anxiety, and if they are within my reach
I will smash them dead best I can, quick as possible. This morning,
I looked over to the left of me and on the wall there sits one just
ready to come over and crawl on me. That is how I perceived it.
So, I rolled up a newspaper and killed it. Forgot to get a pic, but
that thing was not small...

Any spider stories welcomed, or your feelings about spiders.
 

Years ago and after a bite from a larger spider, I got sick with nausea
and pain at the bite site. Swelled up fast and my neighbor decided to
drive me to the Emergency room at the Hospital. Of course, I did not
know what type spider had bitten me, but from the looks of the bite
I was given a cocktail of some meds to treat it. The spider had a larger
body and long black legs. Darn I hate them..
 
Spiders dropped of my list of nice when I was bitten on each leg by brown reclose spiders. That was many years ago when we lived in Pennsylvania. I should have gotten medical attention but didn't realize how the bites would turn out to be.

I don't want to describe in detail since they both looked pretty gruesome. I tried various salves & creams no luck. Out of pure wanting to ease the pain & disgusting discharge I dabbed both with pure bleach. Instant relief. Within 3 days the swelling had subsided the discharge gone. I still have scars where those bites were.
 
I like spiders as long as they don't scare me. Yesterday I had sad regrets because the little spider above my kitchen sink (under the cabinet) had died, presumably of starvation, so I am sorry I hadn't caught and released it.

One that I didn't like was a small jumping type that was in my car several years ago, I don't know what became of him but if he'd come out more conveniently I would have killed him because he had popped out and sat on the emergency brake, and then unexpectedly he hopped over onto my pants. Made getting in the car scary for a week or so until I figured he had died.

Once a very leggy one was in my house and I wanted to catch it in a little Tupperware to release it outside and it ran so fast, then it scrunched itself up in the corner trying (I guess) to look small. Most spiders were easy to catch but that one was a real challenge. I finally got it when it went into the tub and I dangled down a length of toilet paper. Wound up releasing a bit of toilet paper with it!

I don't like the spiders that look like scorpions. There were a pair of them in my horse's feed bucket and I caught them in a jar but before I got them out of the barn to release them, one had already killed the other!

The only time I suspect I was bitten was reaching blindly under the bed pulling out a sock or something, and I had a sudden pain on my finger, but maybe it was just a baby spider because there was no redness or any remaining pain.
 
Some years ago, during the summer months, I was driving home
from a picnic, and saw a spider crawl down my car window inside,
then directly over and starting up my pants leg while my car was
in motion. It was not a huge spider, nor did it appear to be a small
one. I immediately pulled over to a convenient area, jumped out,
slid down my pants, and there that darn spider was sitting on my
knee, seemed to be clinging on to my skin. Killed it straight away
and then had anxiety...
 
Seems that there are appromately 200 spider species in Hawaii.
When I lived there, we always had the widows open, with no screens.
Lots of 'things' would visit, including spiders.

You just learned to live with them and hoped our 'house lizards' would take care of business.
(had a small lizard that loved to hid behind a picture framed above the TV.
It would run out, grab an insect and head back behind the picture. Drove my mom crazy when it happened.)

Noticed that when they would burn the sugar cane fields, we would see more spiders in the house.
 
My son was bitten by a black widow once. Apparently, it crawled into his sleeping bag. It bit him on his lower abdomen. The bite looked like a small boil after a few days and was gone in about 10 days, I'd say. He didn't get sick or anything, and I think he told me it didn't itch (it was a long time ago) but it annoyed him to no end because the "bump" was right above the waistband of his briefs.
 
Walking through some high grass in Dallas years with an ex-girlfriend years ago, with tennis shoes on something bit me. Don't remember even knowing I got bit, or stung, at the time, but the top of my foot looked absolutely horrible for about two weeks. Moral of the story is, don't follow women on their little "adventures".
 
DS was bitten on the butt as he slept. It began swelling so he went to the ER. The Dr there put him on an antibiotic , unfortunately the swelling continued, the swelling and redness reached around to his front. Then he saw his regular Dr who put him on a much stronger antibiotic and lanced the area of the bite.It took months before it was finally healed. Terrible thing, he wouldn't have wished on his worst enemy.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Nope, no biting spiders, lots of small black ones. And they have great eyesight, because they're hard to swat. They can crawl into any tiny crack. I've often wondered what they eat- my home isn't crawling with tiny bugs????
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I've read someplace that if you have spiders, you have bugs. Otherwise there wouldn't be any spiders in your house. I've seen centipedes in my basement; they always startle me into yelling, but they do a good job of eating bugs so I leave them alone. When they appear upstairs, they get smashed.

When living in Florida, I once woke with a huge swollen area on my arm. It didn't hurt or itch but it was really big. I put Ichthammol ointment on it and it slowly went down in a few days. I assume it was a spider bite but wasn't sure what kind it had been.

A bit of humor: I was visiting the bathroom and went to reach for some TP and noticed hairy legs sticking out of the TP roll. I grabbed some kleenex, finished my business and grabbed the entire roll of TP and threw it out the back door. A huge Hunter spider came scurrying out. My neighbor looked at me funny.
 
I was bitten by this little f*cker while picking tomatoes in my garden. 🤨

Argiope Aurantia – Black and Yellow Garden Spider. The Argiope bite is not dangerous to humans. The worst bites will cause some mild localized pain, itchiness, and swelling that will fade in a few days.

Arigope Aurantia Spider
 
About a year ago, I was bitten by a spider -- no idea what it was. Happened in a hotel room while I was sleeping in the bed. It bit me on my stomach. Woke up as a result of the pain, stripped off the sheets, and found her dead. Apparently when I screamed and flailed around, I managed to kill her. It was uncomfortable for a 3-4 days, but eventually healed.

Spiders are one thing, but I have a serious problem with horseflies. Spiders are not aggressive to humans, but horseflies (the females, because they're seeking mammalian blood) are aggressive AND territorial.
 
Eupher said:
About a year ago, I was bitten by a spider -- no idea what it was. Happened in a hotel room while I was sleeping in the bed. It bit me on my stomach. Woke up as a result of the pain, stripped off the sheets, and found her dead. Apparently when I screamed and flailed around, I managed to kill her. It was uncomfortable for a 3-4 days, but eventually healed.

Spiders are one thing, but I have a serious problem with horseflies. Spiders are not aggressive to humans, but horseflies (the females, because they're seeking mammalian blood) are aggressive AND territorial.
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When I was a teen my two brothers and I went on a road trip and stayed at a small motel with a pool. Horse flies came after us at the pool and we kept ducking under the water to escape. We finally ran to the room and closed the door fast. Looked out the window ... and a group of them were lined up outside the door on the sidewalk waiting to ambush us. Intelligent predators.
 
Lawrence00 said:
When I was a teen my two brothers and I went on a road trip and stayed at a small motel with a pool. Horse flies came after us at the pool and we kept ducking under the water to escape. We finally ran to the room and closed the door fast. Looked out the window ... and a group of them were lined up outside the door on the sidewalk waiting to ambush us. Intelligent predators.
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Horse flies annoy me so much I read up on them. They are apparently attracted to darker clothing and large, dark objects (like horses and cattle). When the temps get north of 70 deg. F., that's when they come out with a vengeance. As my vehicle is a dark gray color, I can't tell you how many times I'd pull up somewhere, park, and within seconds the vehicle is being divebombed. I hate those things with a passion.
 
Aaw c'mon, anything that eats flies has something going for it...
On a more serious note the White Tailed spider is a bit of a worry and regularly causes necrosis with its bites. They are transient spiders with no web and they eat other spiders, which is why their bite is so toxic.
 


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