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

I developed a healthy respect for spiders after watching one make it's way over my ceiling, to the ceiling fan and back the way it came, probably going outside the way it got in. I'm not afraid of spiders and with one exception, do not kill them. The exception was my husband brought his daughters used mini washing machine which had been in storage and didn't clean it out. A daddy long legs emerged and I didn't know WTH to do with it, so I killed it. One time one of my step sons came at me with a spider thinking he would scare me. After he saw he that I wasn't afraid, he started to kill it but I asked him not to.

I live on the first floor of an co-op complex surrounded by dirt and grass. Spiders used to get in here often. I'm pretty sure I've gotten a couple of bites over the years because they were different than mosquito bites. When looking them up online, they did indeed look like spider bites. Management finally started having the Orkin man spray the property monthly. Since that started I've noticed that I haven't seen spiders and centipedes (which I absolutely hate) in here in quite a while.
 

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Growing up on Lake Huron I had plenty of spider bites, especially from wolf spiders . . . nasty buggers. New Hampshire has no poisonous spiders (or poisonous snakes for that matter). In addition, on our land we're blessed with a LOT if dragon flies that are constantly patrolling our yard during the warmer months so we have virtually no mosquitoes. What we do have are small biting black flies but their season is quite short.
 

Topic about Spiders, ever been bitten, how bad was it? I thoroughly enjoyed the rush, particularly the nice red and black stretchy suit I got for my troubles.​

 

Bella said:
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
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@ Bella, that thing looks HUGE. ARG.
 
Rakaia said:
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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Good Lord, EVERYTHING in Australia can kill you. I'm amazed that there are people left anymore. Between the box jellyfish, great white sharks, eastern/western brown snakes, white-tailed spiders, and salt-water crocs, Australia ain't for the weak. Mucho respecto!
 
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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Spiders have very poor eyesight, even tho most of them have 8 eyes. The hairs on their legs and some of their bodies are extremely sensitive motion sensors, and that's how they know you're there.

Your little spider buddy might eat tiny bugs, but some tiny spider species don't eat anything at all after they walk away from their egg sacks. Most of those ones only live for a few months, though, or maybe several months...just long enough to make a successful egg sack of their own and then die so their spiderlings can eat their corpses; the only meal they'll ever need.

Useless, right?

(I got that info from a YouTube channel called Travis McEnery. Travis is a spider researcher/lecturer. His channel's intro jingle is a jaunty one-liner: "These are the spiders in your house" boomp-boomp)
 
Naturally said:
Don't think I've ever knowingly been bitten by a spider but likely have.
I read somewhere that in our lifetime, we eat like 500 or something spiders.
Maybe more if you snore. Dunno.
Sometimes I see a spider or bug on my computer screen and get it with my fingertip ... unless they get away

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@ Naturally, the thought of having probably eaten spiders
in my lifetime, is horrible! lol, I always have wondered
what that tickly feeling on my tongue is during sleeping hours!
;)
 
I ve only been bit by one spider but the pain it caused was shocking. My entire arm went numb and swelled up to twice the size of the other one. The pain lasted for a few weeks.
I never knew what type of spider it was or why it bit me. All I know is that it bit me and hurt for a long time.
 
I like spiders. As long as they are not crawling on me.

I've been bitten twice, by what kind I don't know but both times were on my leg. Once when I was a kid sitting on a lawn and I felt the bite. Made a rectangle firm area that took time to resolve. The other bite in my 40's, I didn't feel. Same kind of reaction. Took months to go away (at least 2), then a small area in the same spot appeared, itched and it went away. Must have been a little of the poison that came out.

Spiders inside, I scoop into a little paper jewelry box and take outside.
 
Wondering why spiders come up through the sink or bathroom drains?
I don't often see them but this morning a tiny one was hoovering around
the bathtub drain (so I killed it).
 
I have a long leg spiders living in the small window next to the door of the apartment. Also some real big ones on the overhang over the patio.

When I owned that house and had the windows replaced, I took the long leg spiders that were at the windows and took them outside to the shed to live.
 
Remy said:
I have a long leg spiders living in the small window next to the door of the apartment. Also some real big ones on the overhang over the patio.

When I owned that house and had the windows replaced, I took the long leg spiders that were at the windows and took them outside to the shed to live.
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Those real big ones, what kinds do you think they might be @ Remy?
 
a longer legged brown spider was on my ceiling wall this morning, I went
to get a broom to kill it before it moved, but when I got back it was gone.
I was only gone 15 seconds, now I have to think about it all day and where
it is!
 


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