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How do you determine if they're harmless? I had a spider bite a couple of weeks ago that gave me a welt the size of a dime (and super itchy).
by drmpeg 7y ago
How do you determine if they're harmless? I had a spider bite a couple of weeks ago that gave me a welt the size of a dime (and super itchy).
- kouh 7y agoShe knew the type of spiders they were, but I was only assured after I wasn't bitten for a few days
- losvedir 7y agoDepends where you live but you can look up what spiders are in your area and which ones are dangerous. For example, in most of the US you only really have to worry about black widows (which are pretty distinct) and brown recluses which have a characteristic violin on them but IME often somewhat resemble the harmless wolf spider, which is common in my area. I'm pretty good at identifying the dangerous spiders now (i.e. distinguishing brown recluse from wolf), but it took several instances of trapping the spider under a glass and then breaking out my cell phone and looking at lots of pictures. If your area has lots of kinds of dangerous spiders then it might be more of a pain, though.
- aqme28 7y agoThere are plenty of spiders in the US that are harmful if they bite you but aren't "dangerous." I think what the parent comment was worried about was painful bites more-so than death (though that's also worrying).