Suspected spider bite

[purplebabs]

Whilst scraping up dead leaves and debri fom my garden,with bare hands, I'm sorry to say,I got a bad bite from something. On doing a bit of research, I think it must have been a spider. My finger had 2 puncture marks, it was extremely painful for about a day and a half. It felt like red hot pins and needles and was similar to a scorpion bite I received in Thailand, though no where near as painful as that experience I'm pleased to say. Anyone had anything similar lately ?.

[Dogghound]

Ive recieved spider bites several times. Every time its been by Amaurobius, although the bite is a sharp pin pick that tends not to last.

[Wild-Woman]

Perhaps a Woodlouse Spider. They nip a bit.

[Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

Perhaps a Woodlouse Spider. They nip a bit.

That reminds me of a story re my sister who saw her cats playing with something while she was gardening & was horrified to see it stand on it's hindlegs apparently spitting venom (She is seriously terrified of spiders so may have exaggerated a bit ). She lives near a major port & worrried that it could be something hideously poisonous, so she slammed a glass down over it (v brave for her) & got the police, everybody she could think of involved. The police came & took it away (she said the policeman that came had that look on his face, you know the one reserved for hysterical neurotic women) until this thing started spitting at him too. Eventually an entomologist told her it was a common woodlouse spider. She was mortified. The rest of the family thought it was hysterical.

[Jason Green]

Evening Babs, and welcome to WAB!

As well as the other suggestions, the habitat you describe also points to a False Widow spider - they tend to hang around under cover such as logs or leaf-litter. I often get Steatoda bipunctata - that's the scientific name - in my garden.

Take care,

Jason

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by Jason Green

Evening Babs, and welcome to WAB!

As well as the other suggestions, the habitat you describe also points to a False Widow spider - they tend to hang around under cover such as logs or leaf-litter. I often get Steatoda bipunctata - that's the scientific name - in my garden.

Take care,

Jason

I very much doubt either of the false widows capable of (and known to) bite would be hanging around in leaf litter or on exposed outside plants at this time of year... I would suspect that they are still indoors or in outdoor buildings or on sun facing outside structures such as walls so long as its warm and protected from the frost...

Or maybe just hibernating like this garden cross spider that i have been watching for the past 2 months... its attached itself to a door frame indoors and not moved since... but it is alive because it reacts to being blown on.

[purplebabs]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

That reminds me of a story re my sister who saw her cats playing with something while she was gardening & was horrified to see it stand on it's hindlegs apparently spitting venom (She is seriously terrified of spiders so may have exaggerated a bit ). She lives near a major port & worrried that it could be something hideously poisonous, so she slammed a glass down over it (v brave for her) & got the police, everybody she could think of involved. The police came & took it away (she said the policeman that came had that look on his face, you know the one reserved for hysterical neurotic women) until this thing started spitting at him too. Eventually an entomologist told her it was a common woodlouse spider. She was mortified. The rest of the family thought it was hysterical.

Thanks, I thought it might be that species as I have loads of woodlice in my garden

[purplebabs]

Thanks, I thought it might be that species as I have loads of woodlice in my garden