The Worst Spider Bites in the US Ranked

[@MyWildBackyard]

By popular request in the comments, I tested the hobo spider to add to this tier list! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqmkmZyfn5Z2gNksi=X8b-gpCClgt8X8e0

[@Vernon-gn9wb]

The brown and black widows dont make the same web as any other ive encountered. Its almost like a bell, with a leader line from the top of it to where they rest

[@Vernon-gn9wb]

And the web is definitely as strong as they say. Orbweavers come close, but not like that

[@Vernon-gn9wb]

Ive met a few brown widows in west virginia, as a cable man. I can say with certainty they were, since my dad was afraid of spiders and i wanted to learn why.

[@MelissaBoyken]

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[@Michael_Archer78]

Bit by a black widow in SC 4 times because it was in my slipper when I put it on and went chasing a kid out of the house. I thought it was a fire ant biting me until I kicked the shoe off and it fell out. Within an hour my whole leg was spasming. 5 hours in I told my wife I felt like I was going through some kind of weird withdrawal. Muscles I didn't even knew I had were twitching. My scalp was spasming. It was pure hell for about 16 hours. Not deadly, but possibly the worst pain I've ever felt. My local doctor told me to take potassium and sodium and prepare for a long night when I called. He wasn't kidding.

[@stephenhipp7859]

It seems to get worse each time I get bit too

[@rezzer7918]

😴

[@mikehall3074]

Yeah but what did the flies taste like😳🙃

[@stephenhipp7859]

@@mikehall3074 chicken

[@todd5082]

New “HMO” Dr said to just put some ice on it and watch TV for a while.

[@oceanbytez847]

I had an orb weaver on our porch this past fall and i named her Charlotte. She had a nice zigzag design and i actually kind of liked it. I used to drink a beer on my porch next to her and she'd eat all the mosquitos for me. I was sad because one day a really bad storm blew through and took her web down completely and i never saw her again. Hope she found a new place and built her web again before winter hit.

[@ajlucky0076]

Orb weavers don't really have good vision so it most likely just found another place to set up shop

[@slappy8941]

I always name them Charlotte. 😂

[@sootuckchoong7077]

My house got the very common cellar spider. I kinda like them. Seems they help to reduce mosquitoes.

[@mikehall3074]

Zigzag, what a you guys smoking on your porch🤗😁🙃

[@charlottereyna8964]

I hear people call them zipper spiders because of that zigzag design they spin into their webs.

[@Bozo939]

“Maybe some mild necrosis” is not something i’d ever expect to hear about anything

[@pastorjoesackett]

I actually had necrosis from a brown recluse bite. It got me on the elbow as a kid.. the bite started out as a 1 inch pimple basically , and when it popped after a day or two of antibiotics, the skin and stuff around it was very thin over the bone on my elbow... the skin regenerates like a scab but peels away at first.. I wondered if the bone wS gonna poke out for a week or two... the pimple left a 1 inch crater, the necrosis was isolated to that area. I've heard of worse😊

[@momcat5213able]

​@@pastorjoesackettMy dad was bitten by a brown recluse. He ended up going to the ER and the Dr wasn't sure what bit him. Had him come back a week later if it wasn't better. The Dr he saw that time knew exactly what bit him. He had a large crater on the back of his thigh. Took almost 3 months for it to heal up.

[@ronsin9490]

That necrosis is a bitch. There’s a patch about 1.5 inch diameter on the inside of my elbow that still shows a greyish hue from the bite I took about 17 years ago. Major swelling and itching, burning. And then that open wound for well over a month. I was sleeping in a work truck after a shift and got bit. Instinct in my sleep was to flinch and I trapped it between by forearm and bicep. 15 minutes later when I woke up I thought I had a bad mosquito bite because it was extremely itchy. Until I saw the squashed spider stuck to my forearm. The next few hours were hell and I didn’t get much sleep that night. The next day the pain subsided and the swelling and itching but it was clear that my arm was not normal. The bite became a small sore and then a bit bigger and bigger. I was a stupid kid and didn’t go to a doctor. Treated it on my own and that was undoubtedly dumb. Polysporin, bandage, wrap, cover, go to work. But it heeled over finally about a month later. I had never heard of a brown recluse or really any type of spider bite necrosis before at the time. And on the Canadian prairies we see all kinds of harmless spiders. Never thought about it before. Was definitely a learning experience for me. And a painful one at that. And based on things I’ve seen I’d have considered it as mild necrosis. Scary stuff from a little bite. I have always hated spiders, been creeped out by them. But I definitely have a newfound respect for them from that day forward.

[@BrandonGavin_EDC]

@@momcat5213ablethose bites are bad.

[@gergc4871]

Pretty sure that's what got my foot but it didn't hurt...it itched like he'll. Necrosis, couple months to heal and a nice scar.

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

My kids love it when we go out at night and use a bright flashlight to locate huntsman spiders in the grass. Their eyes reflect a distinctive, bright light distinguishable from dew drops and other reflective things in the yard.

[@derpasoruswrecks2773]

I did that one time when i was little and freaked myself out for a week straight. All i thought about was those million little beady eyes in the dark....staring at me

[@anthonyzacchino9188]

There’s a orb Weaver in my backyard and it freaks me the hell out because he’s so huge but I like him only because he kills the mosquitoes and he leaves me alone so I leave him alone. It’s kind of his backyard now. 😂

[@timothymanning6972]

😂

[@firingallcylinders2949]

Orb Weavers are awesome, They keep the population of Gnats and Mosquitoes down a ton. If you see one don't kill it.

[@suckitezent]

Only thing he has to worry about is birds in it maybe the oddball cat

[@kobyrouthier-pevach885]

That’s like me when I found a Black Widow in my shed, “Welp that’s it’s shed now”

[@davedavenport8487]

What's wrong with you guys, you gotta cohabitate. I am Australian, if we surrendered to the Terrors of the back yard, we would never leave the house, but the bloody things always get in your house and hide in your jocks.

[@amandafrazier7878]

never been bit by a jumper in the years i’ve been handling wild ones, love those little guys, they have so many personalities if you give them a chance to show you

[@Redslayer86]

Same, I always talk to them before getting close, so maybe that has something to do with it, I'm not catching them by surprise.

[@octagram2955]

What area? I've only seen a couple in mine and always felt pretty blessed

[@sgringo]

​@@octagram2955I've never come across them in my area of New England. I really want to find at least one someday.

[@richardcoble9498]

Lil jumping spiders are cool fellas and gals on account of i cant sex them so if i name one i try a nuteral name like fuzzy of cutie.. i never been bit by jumping spiders i handle them every chance i get but i always put them in a safe place. Next to jumppie spiders wolfie spiders are my next fav. I saw one at a friends house he had some fuzzy stuff stuck to his her paws so i got a tweezer and spent 30 minuets getting the cotton off his paws . When i had got it all he sat there for awhile i sat there and he lifted his paws up and wiggled his paw ends as if to say tks im free ..i said yeppers ur free be careful u dont get tangled up again.. then i went back to work ..i guess he did too.

[@Corywinget81]

​​@@karma_iswhoIamthey feel acoustic vibration.

[@patchbunny]

I was bitten by a Black Widow on my hand. It was painful like a tattoo that no painkillers knocked back and that lasted three days. The next day my hand around the bite and up my arm felt cold and clammy. Weirdest symptom of all, though, was that all of my toes also started hurting. The ER doc who treated me (I went in as I was concerned the coldness was a sign of circulatory failure) told me that he had a woman who was bitten on the foot the prior week, and all of her fingers started hurting. Neurotoxins are *weird*.

[@lysanderspoon5749]

I was bit by widow on left arm. Got a deep itch sensation. A week later, same sensation traveled to both of my feet. Very weird indeed.

[@thefench1]

nerves are linked, there are some "mirror points" in the body its quite interesting

[@zaynes5094]

@patchbunny One thing I learned from my own experience with a Widow was that I won't just blindly put my hands into any darkened closets or drawers. I hate Widows and Recluses because I know if it bites me I'm in serious pain for the next four days. First and thankfully only time so far was a Widow bite, had a friend of my parents who got bit during covid high times and she said it just started getting numb when she went in and didn't wait around to see the dead tissue start. For me, with the Widow, it started feeling nauseous right away and began sweating before the physical numbness in my arms and legs started. I was in the car when my elbow started to seize up. At the hospital, I was sweating a lot and yet I felt very cold.

[@margiestevens2384]

I worked as a surgical technician in Oklahoma for four years, brown recluse bites were awful. We had to work hard to save limbs, true this was the early seventies. Yes, the staph infections caused the amputations, but the staph infections were because the person didn’t know to come in for the spider bite until they had become infected. Then it was days and weeks of debridement of dead tissue and battling infection. Anytime something’s been stored I unpack it wearing gloves.😕

[@marctricomi2775]

So I've actually been bit by the brown recluse 4 times over the last 3 years. Every March, like clockwork for the past few years I've been bitten while sleeping. Three of them were on the same arm literally inches from each other and this most recent bite was on my shin. Even though I have the scars to show for all of them, Each time, the bite was substantially not as bad as damaging as the one before and actually healed faster than the one before. I don't know if it's possible to build up some level of resistance to the venom the more you are exposed to it but that seems to be the case from my experience. Luckily, nobody else in my house has been but and we seldom even see them. But they seem to have my number for some reason.

[@LuxMeow]

Buddy, I think it’s time to move, where you live, Australia. Just hell no.

[@aletamdeshon5937]

I almost lost my leg due to a recluse bite

[@CrackedCogInTheMachine]

I came here to comment on the recluse bites, my childhood friend has a chunk of flesh, a divot the size of half a lemon missing from his thigh from a recluse bite. I 've got a I guess you could call it a keloid scar? about the size of a nickel on my fore arm from one. If you know what it is and get it cared for immediately, little harm done. But the vast majority of people shrug it off and go about their lives and only go to the doctor when they realize something is seriously wrong.

[@tubthump]

I got bitten on the elbow by a brown recluse while visiting DC from the UK. Arm swelled up 2x normal size, skin flaked away from wound. It hurt a LOT for weeks. Only treatment was salt baths (I had no health insurance!!)

[@dubiousdevil9572]

My mom was hospitalized twice by a brown recluse. First bite rotted away a one inch hole in her cheek, the second bite swelled up her face so bad her eye was closed for a week.

[@Prestegist08]

“Recluse isn’t that bad” as my mom was fighting to keep her leg from a brush recluse bite.

[@nicholasadams2374]

Ya, I'm not sure why he was so casual about them. They're far more dangerous than he mentioned. Black Widows are far less dangerous.

[@jerryboics9550]

She must be allergic to them. People can die from peanuts, doesn't mean they are particularly dangerous.

[@jaimeortega4940]

The Black Widow bite gave me a stomach ache that lasted for three days and flu like symptoms the first day. The worst spider bite by far.

[@MyWildBackyard]

100%. Those guys are NOT fun. Heard of it lasting a week in some cases.

[@bpz8175]

Dr Allan Walker Blair wanted to see if you could develop immunity to the effects of repeated black widow bites. He tested this by having a spider bite him. After 2 days of debilitating pain, he decided not to continue the experiment. One bite was apparently bad enough.

[@caucasoidape8838]

With how many of them I have come across in my life, I am surprised I haven't been bitten.

[@i_love_slash_more_than_you]

in aus we call em redbacks. when i was smaller i was getting the mail out for my grandma and a redback went on my thumb. ofc i shook it off before it could bite me but im fine with spiders now. ive held over 20 wild ones within the past month and i havent been bitten.

[@keirfarnum6811]

@@caucasoidape8838 I have never actually seen a widow spider (although admittedly I did live in Alaska for 20 years at one point), but the rest of the time I have lived in Montana and California and I just have never come across one. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Jay-n262]

The jumping spider bite isn't so bad. One fell on my arm and bit me when I was younger. It felt it a little worse than a mosquito bite and didn't last.

[@MyWildBackyard]

Bout typical yeah. Bee sting at worst but fortunately they don’t usually bite

[@supers0nic77]

I got bit by one last year it was in the car jumping around

[@tremainej8171]

It didn't fall on you... IT JUMPED 😅

[@Corina-dq2my]

I think they are so cute actually. They always jump around and can jump so far for their size!

[@fuktrumpanzeeskum]

I was removing some junk from a yard and had one jump in my face once and it bit me on the eyelid, right on that tiny bit of skin between the eyelash and eyeball. It burned for a couple minutes but after that it was just a bump, like a bad mosquito bite but because of how close it was to my eyeball, it messed with my vision for a few days. The itching/irritation was annoying too. I'm just glad I didn't get bit directly in my eyeball though, i imagine that would've been significantly worse.

[@pingislife2653]

The quality of your presentation of valuable information (i.e. how a spider bite affected you) to assuage people's fears of little critters is why I think your channel is easily in my top 10 channels I've ever watched on all of KZbin.

[@MyWildBackyard]

Thank you so much! That really does mean a lot.

[@cjn0423]

Yeah. I know this channel is about to EXPLODE!

[@TomMiller-hp1ie]

My father almost lost a leg back in the 60s because of two brown recluse bites on his leg. I have been bitten by both brown recluse and the southern black widow. The widows made me nauseous for an hour or two and burned bit. The brown recluse bite took months to heal and left a scar about the size of a 50 cent piece.

[@Stacey0909]

I'm a Veterinary Nurse. We used to care for the dogs at Indian Creek Correctional Center. Many of the dogs got bit by Brown Recluse spiders. Everyone had deep scars where huge chunks of flesh were missing. Poor pooches!

[@dbx1233]

I had a lot of orb weavers where I live in Southeast Texas, but after hurricane Rita in 2005 I stopped seeing them. I never saw another one until 2021, 16 years later. I'm glad for their return because I like watching them and seeing the incredible webs they weave.

[@daddyjojo9258]

I live in California and I used to see a bunch of beautiful yellow/black orb weaver spiders, but sometime around 2012~ they stopped appearing. Infact most spiders that used to make their way around here have stopped appearing including Black Widows, green spiders who's name I can't remember, and black/white jumping spiders. It seems nowadays the only spiders that show up anymore are Brown Widows and house spiders with occasional red or tan jumping spiders

[@NathanEllisBodi]

Probably took them that long to hitch hike back from wherever they were blown to.

[@MrReman2u]

@@daddyjojo9258 I've noticed that also.

[@Tati_257]

@@daddyjojo9258I live in SoCal on the coast and I could not disagree more about orb weavers but I don’t know where you’re at in CA. While I rarely see black and yellows, the brown ones have been out in record numbers in the last 3 falls, with each year increasing… last year you literally couldnt walk out your door to your car without walking into a left behind string or seeing one in their web, it was insane… there were a bunch of articles in the news and on social media about it it was so bad.

[@majormissile5596]

You had entire towns spraying pest control crap across the streets, and that spills over to other areas. I believe in Texas that was outlawed more recently. There has been a great dying with insects, but so long as we put a stop to spray pesticides soon, they should be able to bounce back rather easily.

[@doralupo6725]

My neighbor died of organ failure because of a recluse bite. He didn't even know he was bitten until necrosis started in the area around the bite. It was many years ago, but if I remember correctly, he passed 2 weeks within the necrosis starting.

[@fastinradfordable]

Same thing happened to a friend of mine. He showed me the bite Next thing I knew his shop was closed ever more.

[@goblinlit]

Good grief

[@JamesWilliams-co8qg]

My mom recluse bite misdiagnosed as staff infection. Necrosis was so bad that the doctors were thinking about amputating her leg.

[@TheEvilDrR]

I've been bitten by Recluses so many times I've lost count. I know, because I've found several in the house that look exactly like the one @15:25. Most people don't even know they've been bitten by them, since they tend to scavenge at night. The first few times I was bitten, it would leave a small scar, now they don't even do that. Just about like the video describes. The bites tend to be very itchy, and I've only realized it was a bite after scratching the bite and rupturing the swelling at the site. Which is actually a good thing, unless that causes an infection. The best thing I've found to help is to try to squeeze out any venom in the bite to reduce the necrosis. If you're ever in doubt, catch the spider and put it in a glass. Recluses can't climb glass. I kept one in a shot glass for a few photos before I got rid of it.

[@yayhandles]

@@TheEvilDrR Not gonna lie, but I can't help feeling like you're probably misidentifying wolf spiders.

[@yahwea]

I let a cobweb spider live in my window around and behind some matchboxes I put there for her. She did not just cath the small flies, gnats and small moths, she was using low frequency to call them to her lair. I watched her memerize flies into her lair. Fascinating.

[@Paid2Win]

Arizona, Black Widow Bite: I was a late teen, 17-19 y/o Drinkin at a party, Jose Quervo. Sat down on some old blankets & wooden furniture they had on their porch, talking with people. I was drunk, didn't feel the bite on my inner thigh. Everyone thought I drank too much & needed to drink water, sweat it out. My condition deteriorated from someone being drunk, to bleeding from my nose, vomiting uncontrollably, and being unable to walk. The party hosts didn't know me, and were sketchy. People stole my belongings while I sat in their back yard, legs crossed, vomiting & bleeding. I remember going in & out of awareness. To describe the venom "trip", it's like having your nervous system set on fire. Your awareness of various things comes & goes in a horribly disorienting, painful fluctuation. I woke up to the sonoran sun slapping me in the face, I had no idea what happened, why I was bloody. I don't drink that hard, ever lol Somehow got home, remember it was already 100°s outside, sweating, feeling like death. I slept for an entire day, then found the bite necrotized during a shower the next morning.

[@frankG335]

What horrible people they were! Omg! They didn't care at all!

[@anteaterking6728]

I'm not reading all that bro, this isn't reddit.

[@leo9826]

If you’re not gonna read it then leave

[@Jeffrey-df8mp]

This is hands down the most educational and informative spider video I have ever seen. I think if ppl watched this they would be less afraid. Ignorance leads to fear. Good job man you have a future in educational videos. Keep it up.

[@dresdensinn6669]

Your research, commitment, and sacrifices are much appreciated by those of us who find value as well as entertainment in your content, thank you so much for sharing!

[@AshleyMartin-f3x]

I live in Canada Ontario ashamed to say that right now while Trudeau is PM😅 anyways I always wondered how bad a Banana Spider bite would be some of them are very very big and black and yellow never heard about their bites

[@AshleyMartin-f3x]

Black widow bites are deadly to children half the time

[@mistermoskauTTV]

"check twice before you stick your hands or fingers where you cant see them" - MyWildBackyard 2024

[@lowandodor1150]

and it has 69 thumbs up, so please forgive i won't be adding to that, sure you understand.

[@PolyphonicSigma]

Thats what SHE said

[@karenduguid3943]

And check your shoes!!

[@BlackjackHookers-nj7qj]

So true also fun story I was doing landscaping and having to reach in to something and seen a giant wolf spider bolt past my hand and attacking and killing a black widow, that day was the day I fell in love with the wolf spiders and have even picked them up and played with them.

[@pageribe2399]

​@@karenduguid3943 Yes, shoes are a favorite hiding place for the mighty brown recluse

[@someartist7278]

Those spiders biting seem to be like “this big thing seems like it wants me to bite it.” Then they just chill after doing so.

[@Exeternal_Beyonder_Of_Doomsday]

So basically "Oh! You want me to bite you ok!" Like you were quite literally asking too then spiders like the Wolf Spiders held way less interests like they had morals and say "Fuck this shit I'm out"

[@sammynatal6471]

I absolutely love the little jumping spiders. I just adore watching them.

[@valterzc8187]

Here in Brazil i am more afraid of browm spider than wandering spiders. The brown one lives inside houses and can easily hide in our shoes or clothes, and you won't notice you were bitten as it will only cause you pain and irritation 1 or 2 days later, too late for the antidote. It can cause a serious necrosis in the area, that takes several months to recover.

[@Beaster_Bunny]

Do you live in Parana? Brown spiders are in only some states in Brazil but I saw a ton of them in Parana. Had one crawl on my leg as I got into bed one night but luckily it didn't bite.

[@BenDover-wk2zl]

Okay please explain. Brown spider? Like recluse? Anne aren't the wandering spiders very deadly and attack easily

[@PBLE20]

Dude! You’re nuts! Purposely making spiders bite you?! YIKES!!😮

[@erossinema8797]

Actually low doses of the toxin can make a person build immunity

[@zoyahu]

Everyone always loves a tier list!

[@MyWildBackyard]

We sure do!

[@bigJ0027]

Hey, I know you!

[@zoyahu]

@@bigJ0027 Fellow cool bug facts™ enjoyer! When's the next Clone Hero stream????

[@lowandodor1150]

Tier = animal in German.

[@zoyahu]

@@lowandodor1150 It's pretty close to the Dutch "dier" too!

[@Okkusen]

Since i started watching your videos , I always liked the background music, your calm talking style when explaining everything. (very good for non native english speakes like me) Good Job!

[@Anarchyttg]

Recluses are in W. Colorado as well. Me and my cousin were talking about how we always thought we'd seen a brown recluse, until we did. Took two grown men a full 5 minutes of panic to deal with that encounter.

[@Bandwidth24]

The brown recluse bite bacteria infection triggered a autoimmune disease in a guy I know. That's serious.

[@RobinBerri]

Another great video Spencer. Getting to see your Tier list on Spider bites eases my mind. I've gotten so much better at not killing spiders that I find in my house. The Spiders are taking care of the other insect population in the house. I passed on your channel info to my daughter so she can put you on my grandchildrens list of channels to watch. Spencer you are now a part of my grandchildren's homeschooling science class. Thanks.

[@philsurtees]

*America:* _Our most venomous spiders._ *Australia:* _PFFT!_

[@sten4982]

Yeah Redbacks get murdered if I see them, almost ended up in hospital (i was so sick from it) from one and someone else had a daughter that got bitten and needed to go to hospital. Havent had any issue with Funnel webs but did catch one in the gargae after heavy rain in SE QLD.

[@DerekEklund]

It's really only funnel-webs. Redbacks are the same genus as widows, both of which aren't aggressive and their venom is similar and highly overstated as far as being dangerous to healthy adult human beings (still don't want to get bit by one). White-tailed spiders basically get the same rep as recluses in the US and aren't really dangerous outside of some extreme circumstances. The rest are just things like mouse spiders and trap doors, which aren't dangerous at all, or big harmless huntsman.

[@twistertje1986]

AUSTRALIA: WE ARE ON THE TOP OF VENOMOUS SPIDERS NETHERLANDS: SNORE😪THERE IS NOTHING INTERESTING HERE.

[@erikseavey]

The Brazilian wandering spider is pretty bad but that's South America.

[@miasmia4968]

I see your spiders and raise you our ticks.

[@bundleofbasil]

Ahhh, I love this video! I'm only like, 35% of the way through it, but I had to comment before forgetting. Great background music to set the mood for each spider/category, and you did a wonderful job of providing facts without disrupting the flow of the tier list 😁👍 impressive, as always!

[@MyWildBackyard]

Thanks so much! That was the hard part- keeping the pacing and run time good and getting all the info right. Took me THREE drafts before the script felt good. So glad it came out!

[@kathygradl2336]

I lived in rural WNY and had a run in with a Black Widow that hitched a ride in a box of custom car parts from Texas. Raid, Black Flag, and other common bug killers Do Not Work on Black Widows. Carb cleaner made sure the parts were safe, gasoline and a match took care of the box and packing materials they were hiding in. Very tough to kill.

[@bmav007]

I got bit by a spider when I picked up my neighbors yard umbrella when it blew into our yard once. Never saw it, just reached under and bam. Worse than any bee sting I have ever had. Left two little fang marks and took forever to heal. I still can’t feel that small part of my finger 20 years later.

[@adriennekleinschmidt3968]

The yellow and black orb weavers i used to see tons of growing up in the eighties. Definitely see less now in Illinois then i used to. They thrive in tall weeds and theres a lot of that area being mowed and maintained now. I still find them. But not like i used to. The brown one (the one that charlotte is based from) seems to do better at living alongside or adapting with humans. I frequently see them set up by a light on the corner of a house or something like that. But really only find the yellow ones in tall fields and that.

[@stephenrobb8759]

I have been reading through the comments. Our household had a serious recluse bite. With medical treatment , the doctor still wanted to schedule for surgery. Had necrosis, larger than an American 25 cent coin. Required daily debridement, massage for drainage, No exaggeration - black and green drainage. Took photos to track progress. Lost several days work. And there is a scar. All is well now, but it was bad at the time.

[@screamingreel8542]

OMG! I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy! I saw what made to my mother the less dangerous L. rufescens..! I have in my eyes the images of Jeff Hanneman (R.I.P.) arm after a L. reclusa bite.. 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@keeranimal8]

Yeah the recluse is one bite I never wanna mess with!! Don’t see em too much here in east central Florida (every so often, but fairly rare…most that think they’ve seen em have actually seen another species like a male southern house spider etc), but we do run across em here and there. A girl my wife and I worked with back in 2003 or so came to live with us for a while after leaving an abusive relationship…turns out she lived in a motel for a bit when she first left. Had this weird wound on her back that just wouldn’t heal, I had a feeling and made her see my doctor, and turns out it actually was the necrotic aftermath of a (most likely) recluse bite. Only one I’ve seen here that was pretty much confirmed though…

[@firecracker8071]

I was bit by the brown recluse on my stomach. Soooo painful

[@abundantharmony]

Same here. I live in Ga and that's exactly what my ankle was like.

[@Kevhoe]

I get brown recluse bites almost on a weekly basis, they are everywhere in my forested area of Texas. I’ve only ever had a tiny red rash with very minor necrosis that looks like a pimple, and goes away in a couple days.

[@catrandy7957]

40 years ago, I was sleeping in gym shorts when a red knee tarantula climbed in my bed, up my leg and into my shorts. when it got to my side at waistband level, I rolled over in my sleep, and in self defense it bite me twice in the same place. I then rolled onto my back and it crawled inside my shorts, across my privates to the other side waistband area. That's when I rolled over on that side and it bite me twice there. At this point I woke up, (I used to drink like a fish back then so I slept through the rest of it). I saw it on me and pulled it off, which unfortunately left one of the fangs stuck in my side. I wanted to save it because I thought it was probably someones pet that got away, but being still half drunk I couldn't find anywhere to keep it safe so I flushed it down the toilet. Now, I think spiders are really cool, (especially the jumpers), so occasionally I feel bad about flushing it until I remember that it bit me 4 times and was crawling around on my nuts, then it doesn't bother me as much. It didn't hurt much at all, except that it made a large knot on each side right at belt level that hurt when wearing a belt. That lasted about 3-4 days. I didn't notice the fang in my side until I sobered up the next day. All in all maybe like a bee or wasp sting.

[@danecrawford2658]

I think that would be enough to send most through the roof and running for the hills lol. I don't mind spiders as long as they are not crawling on me!

[@helmaschine1885]

Holy shit that's a nightmare you lived through.

[@aussiedonaldduck2854]

G'day, you should come to Australia, I think you would like it here.

[@hundkebab2433]

where are you guys sleeping?? out on the open?!

[@catrandy7957]

@@hundkebab2433 nope. It somehow got into my apartment. I guess it was probably someone’s pet that got out of their cage.

[@badxradxandy]

One of the best nature channels. Thank you!

[@geraldpatterson3903]

Ya havent lived until your running through the woods and you run right into a banana spider web and the spider is right on your face.

[@SMaamri78]

Wow. I’m laying in bed about to go to sleep. I’ll have a nightmare about this.

[@oatlord]

First time I experienced orb weavers, I was walking a trail in Savanah Georgia. All the sudden I got this weird feeling I was being watched, then noticed I was competely surrounded by hundreds of these huge monsters. Legit freaked out. Read about them later, but man the memory of that fear sticks with me today.

[@TheWildlifeBrothers]

Really good effort man, this is a well thought out list and I agree with all your rankings. Lots of good information in here to justify the list, and this has to be one of the better uses of backlog footage I’ve probably ever seen. As always you’re pushing the bounds of how we make content around here. Nice work.

[@homiedaclown4381]

One of my most vivid memories involving spiders was at a summer camp ages ago. I was climbing a ladder to get out of a lake, and under the dock were three huge fishing spiders, at least one of which was the size of my 12 year old hand.

[@slappy8941]

That's nightmare fuel right there lol.

[@scottfamily5963]

May I ask where that was so I will never move or take a holiday at the beach there?!

[@scottfamily5963]

May I ask where that was so I will never move or swim there?!

[@michaeltaylor8084]

Thanks man .seeing you handle and then letting spiders bite you has taken some of the scarey out of them ...your one tough mother

[@breakoutnodoubt]

Yes. Wondering when I’d find a comment spot on. Thanks brother. Wild blue ridge parkway decades of bites and just keep truckin but think hmmm...what bit me yesterday

[@aliusafee6040]

Thanks for your Sacrificing Bites from Spiders, making it the best video I saw this year.

[@TheLastArbiter]

I saw those orb weavers when I spent time in Oklahoma. I also know multiple people who received necrotic wounds from a recluse and witnessed it personally

[@screamingreel8542]

My mother got inadvertently bitten by the species that live in Italy (Loxosceles rufescens) which fortunately has a less toxic venom of L. reclusa but.. after the bite developed an ulcer which turned to eschar. It took three months to heal and left a scar. She got bitten (with greater probability, because she didn't realise the bite) moving objects in cantina. That species often hide behind old wooden furnitures

[@larryayers3984]

Great video! Held my attention and was super informative! Thank you!

[@marjorieinverts]

I get so excited over your spider videos lol it’s nice to hear the TRUTH. I can’t even go on Reddit anymore because EVERY SINGLE POST in the spider subs is “FOUND THIS IN MY HOUSE, SHOULD I BE CONCERNED??”…. It gets so old lol

[@zephyram2648]

Growing up we never referred to those cellar spiders as "daddy long legs". The things most often referred to by that name were harvestmen. (Opiliones)

[@BalefulBunyip]

Australia here. Had a death from a Widow in 2016 a Redback Spider, which is closely related to the American Black Widow but I believe is more venomous). A Sydney Funnel web can definitely kill you with thirteen confirmed fatalities prior the introduction of an anti venom in 1984. Since then only two deaths have occurred.

[@craighawker4526]

Brilliant video mate very informative and very interesting. Your videos keep me watching I love them keep them coming

[@Brgg1]

Spencer bouta become spiderman🙏🙏

[@rb2530]

I seen a spider with a red hourglass on its abdomen. The spider was full on forest camouflage however. I was still hunting (stalking with a bow) deer and something caught my attention. I stopped for a couple minutes to let the environment fully render in (no moving eyes or anything, just freeze in place). What came into focus about a foot in front of my eyes was a totally forest green camouflaged spider with a red hourglass sitting in a web. The spider was rather large at about 1.25" for the body.

[@joelalexander5338]

What kind of spider was it?

[@acannedpare6655]

17 y old high school senior lost his left leg bow hunting on my farm in 95. Brown recluse bit him while in tree stand and he was in hospital for several days maybe 8 or 9 total before doc had to remove his leg. The young man never got to graduate from high. School and developed several other problems that came with long term use of opiate pain meds. Still tears me up when I thing about him. He was a good athlete and good looking guy with his pick of girls in school. All changed after that terrible day.

[@andycocchia4202]

11:00 Groundbreaking stuff sir. Love the tips

[@OnlyHuman_AfterDark]

"When in doubt, poke it with a stick" This shall be my new motto 😂

[@irenehabes-quene2839]

Best advice he gave during the video. I belong to the 75% majority who has some degree of fear when it comes to spiders but only mildly and if I accidentally suddenly am confronted by a spider. Otherwise they don’t really scare me. So poking at them with a stick seems better advice to me than letting poisonous spiders walk up my arm.

[@Justin.Martyr]

@@irenehabes-quene2839 *Try a BaLL Point Pen, If you Can't Fimd a Stick !!!!*

[@oneshotme]

I didn't know Brown Widows were evasive!! We had a large number of them on our fence line. At the time I didn't know the name of them but knew they were some kind of widow since the had the red hourglass on the underside.

[@qwqwqwqw99]

That clip at 4:45 made me throw my phone involuntarily. You're all-in on this spider stuff. Cool video

[@CrimFerret]

My dad was bitten by a brown recluse on the arm. He ended up with a necrotic sore that took a fair amount of time to heal, but it wasn't close to life threatening.

[@joshthemediocre7824]

I've only been hip to spiders the last 5 years but i've raised several Emerald jumping spiders from a place that i regularly find a couple different species of them, our local REV WAR cemetery, they love those old headstones with pockets and designs on them. I have learned so much about them just be owning them and interacting with them, they are very fun if they are happy. I havn't got anymore since my last one passed from old age, but i still hunt them down to photo them, i have 100's of awesome jumping spider pictures.

[@elusivegluejeff4980]

That was so interesting and appreciated. I'm in the UK but I have lived in Texas. In my flat/apartment I have loads of Cellular spiders and I don't interfere with their lives and I find them hugely beneficial to me. I used to get a lot of the UK house spiders but the Cellular spiders eat anything that comes inside. I'm pretty sure their webs are not sticky also. When the temperature rises in spring I see the females carrying their eggs around in their mouth parts and just before they hatch she spins a web for the tiny specs to live in whilst she keeps guard. Truly fascinating. Thank you for your informative content.

[@aawells07]

I bet your cell phone gets great reception with those cellular spiders amplifying the cell signal to the cell towers. Lucky you. Lol ok that was terrible but I went with it anyway.

[@elusivegluejeff4980]

@@aawells07 It made me chuckle 👍

[@aawells07]

@@elusivegluejeff4980 haha good to know. Cheers

[@WinterRaven25]

I prefer the company of house centipedes. They are vicious little guard dogs who go after anything but leave people alone.

[@YungSteambuns]

The big guy in my garage has killed several huntsman spiders, theyre very impressive spiders

[@DaveTexas]

Very cool list covering almost everything we encounter here! Having watched all your videos on North American spiders, there weren’t any surprises here. It still surprises me that we don’t know all that much about the venom of a few of these, however. Someone could get their PhD studying red widow venom!

[@JohnDoe-ir3nw]

A real daddy long leg is an outdoor insect with 6 legs and a round body only. Resembles a spider but is an insect.

[@Bad_fish_too]

Well that depends on what you’re calling a “real” daddy long-legs. The cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides) is an arachnid and a “true” spider. Harvestman spiders, which is what I believe you’re referring to, do not have two distinct body segments. Instead a round fused segment. They have eight legs, do not produce silk, are arachnids, though phylogenetically more closely related to scorpions. Which are still Cholicerates like all of the spiders; they’re just closer to scorpions than other spiders.

[@jakewolfe8979]

They're not insects, they're Harvestmen. They are most closely related to scorpions and crustaceans

[@majormissile5596]

There are multiple spiders and non-spiders called "daddy-long-legs", I've even seen it locally applied to mayflies as well in some places. Some English speaking person or people called an arthropod with long legs a "daddy-long-legs" and wasn't very clear in the description beyond that. Edit: Looking into it more, Crane Flys are called daddy-long-legs in the UK, Cellar spiders are called that om the west coast (and maybe the east coast but I couldn't find confirmation on that), and I'm the south (where I have been most of my life), it's what we call harvestmen.

[@IMelcro]

In south africa we call those basement spiders, daddy longlegs

[@WiQiDgamer]

Can confirm the black widow bite. That was probably the worst I've felt in my life

[@adibee88]

This was an AMAZING video on spiders! I am still afraid of them but my fear has decreased and I have a BETTER understanding of the spiders. ESPECIALLY the Texas Tarantulas (I saw and photographed one!) and the Brown Recluse. The necrosis and scarring is 🤮. First time on your channel. SUBSCRIBED.

[@AAONMS1]

Do more rankings! This is great!!!

[@XMooseManX]

Dude. I subbed to you for years. None of your videos have popped up on my feed. You should be way more popular. What is KZbin doing? This is great content.

[@pajamallama2364]

Sadly good content isn’t recommended in KZbin 97% of the time.

[@sstrykert]

​@@pajamallama2364 or accurate😓

[@supremeghost7950]

Thank you for your service as spider ambassador.

[@hvitulv7336]

Brown recluse cost me a deep scar and about 6.5 months of crutches because my foot wouldn't bend. Worst thing was it was just hatched in the outer door frame and landed on my clothes. Thousands more that hatched are hiding in the house to be discovered. I decided to move😂 Now I just have a 50 cent sized scar from the necrosis to tell the tale.

[@LEEBO7636]

Survivor's stories... respect🤣🤘🏻. I immediately handled mine in a way my chain of command DID NOT agree with, nor will KZbin allow me to disclose... 3 stitches, that's it. Lucky

[@Blalack77]

The Orb Weaver ones - I always called them banana spiders. But I've always kind of liked them. They always seem to build webs by my front door and I let them stay. I used to take grasshoppers and toss into their webs and see how big they'd grow.

[@Bird1964]

That's what I call them too. I'm from the upper Midwest

[@sutherngirrl7590]

And for KZbin's tier list, Spencer takes the lead!! Have a great weekend my friend!

[@MyWildBackyard]

Have a great weekend! Glad to finally be able to compile all the bites into something people will find useful!

[@zinksflame]

I've had a jumping spider bite me once because it got trapped under my blanket, and it honestly felt like a hot nail had poked me but only for about .5 seconds and then there was no pain at all.

[@MyWildBackyard]

Yep sounds about right. You definitely feel it but it’s not something that lasts

[@zinksflame]

@MyWildBackyard I love your content, you really reverse the fear spread by some other people who overreact for views.

[@danecrawford2658]

Jumping spiders are super smart! I painted a house one time and one was walking along the ceiling watching my every move.

[@darkjay276]

"Do or do not. There is no try." I see what you did there lmao. Anyway, this was an interesting video and it's nice to see how they all stack up to each other in terms of feelings and venom! I really appreciated the distribution maps for each of the spiders too. And poking them with sticks is the best scientific method to identification. :)

[@MyWildBackyard]

Always gotta throw in those Star Wars references 😂 I definitely want to do more range maps, gotta work on a way to do it globally next so that I can show ranges when I’m in other countries as well. So glad you enjoyed!

[@spaceflight1019]

"Try" is the action. "Do or do not" is the result of the action. If you do not try, the "do" part of the equation is removed.

[@michaelcoleman3200]

Not gonna lie I jumped at 0:13

[@K3Ollie]

Got me too

[@athrunmoza8996]

Didnt get me. You guys should watch more spider document videos

[@lobbyrobby]

I don't mind spiders but this video kinda creeped me out. I usually have 1 or 2 spiders living in my camper. Sometimes I kill them sometimes we hang out and watch TV together.

[@ryanhiggins8869]

I had a “pet” wolf spider. When I lived in my mom’s garage, the spider lived under my bed. I would bring her offerings of crickets and other largish bugs for her to eat. She grew to be the size of a small plate. I had to relocate her because she was scaring my friends. I kept giving offerings outside for her until one day she stopped taking them. I’m not sure what happened to her, but now dozens of little baby spiders swarm towards me, so I continue to give offerings when I can

[@typicalosprey60]

W lies

[@betsybarnicle8016]

I've had several pet house spiders. My favorite was a jumping spider. My strategy though was to let them find their own food.

[@secktuss9610]

when i read pet, i thought you guys kept them in a cage, not under your bed wtf

[@MyWildBackyard]

Snake bite tier list next? Or insect stings? Vote below!

[@chaken6187]

Insect first! Keep the best for the last!

[@TheMattC9999]

Snake bite, definitely snake bite. You said in the video the brown widow has the most potent venom, how did it compare to the purse-web spider in the northeast and the miniature version of the six-eyed sand spider which I believe was in Arizona? It's it actually more potent than those two or is there not enough known about the other 2 to say?

[@oneshotme]

Looking forward to it

[@eeik5150]

Great idea. I always love tier lists.

[@cmzangel9729]

I wish people would follow directions 🙄 but insect stings

[@mynameisalex_]

Finally, the tier list the internet has been waiting for

[@TradingDiary-l1r]

The Celler Spider is what got me interested in spiders as a kid. I lived in New York at the time and they were in every basement I could think of. I found them hanging out near the water heater and under drain sinks.

[@thatkid-w1d]

The way the wolf spider zoned out 😂

[@Corina-dq2my]

I have been bit twice by a black widow. The first time I felt a pin prick sensation like a light sticky pin prick. On lower back. But the next day, I had blood coming from that bite. But it was really small. I just applied a band aid. Five days later I had a bad abscess which was so tender it was insane and intense. A year later, I actually saw a black widow on my arm, it was running up my arm and I never removed a piece of clothing off of me so fast in my entire life! I didn't see any signs of a bite, until two days later or so. Two small bullet- wound like wounds. It had bitten me in three places side by side exactly. Apparently that black widow had gotten stuck in my pants! I lost a lot of blood, and it was something else! My Grandma saw all the blood in the toilet bowl from the wounds and was like, "Oh sh*t"! I went to ER and got treatment but, yeah. They're fun 😅

[@danecrawford2658]

OMG!

[@IIIISai]

Lol

[@jimmaddox2415]

That was an outstanding and educational video Spencer,and I notice that you did not mention the funnel web spiders/grass spiders,and where would you rate them on your bite tier list🤔 Keep up the great work look forward to all your videos 👍

[@MyWildBackyard]

I’d lump the vast majority of them in D Tier with the kinda generic small spiders of your yard. Bigger ones like Eratigena and Tegenaria would make it to C or B but no higher, hobo spiders aren’t actually dangerous despite the myths! Thanks so much for watching as always, good to see ya back in the comments!

[@mrtoothless]

When making videos regarding actual spider bites, please take a minute to cover the dangers of venom entering the human body, outside of the actual toxicity of the venom, for those of your viewers who immediately run out and try and get bitten on purpose. 1: any necrosis caused by venom in muscle tissue is problematic because dying or dead muscle tissue is very damaging to your liver and kidneys. 2: any compounds that make it into your bloodstream, ie. venom, has to be broken down by your liver and kidneys into simpler compounds as part of the breaking-down process and these run the spectrum of benign to quite harmful.

[@ObliviouzRomantic]

Only the second video I have watched from you and I have already subbed. Love this!

[@bencross3759]

I don't mind spiders but getting them to bite you is horrid, but i'm glad i live in England! I am fairly new to your channel and i have to say i love your work! It's clear you have a passion for what you do!

[@kathygradl2336]

If you are allergic to bees, or have asthma a recluse bite means a trip to the hospital because it can trigger an anaphylaxis reaction. If you have epilepsy a black widow bite also needs medical supervision since the neurotoxin can trigger seizures or aggravate other neuro muscular conditions. Play where you want but be aware of your personal risk potentials and plan accordingly.

[@Herbie11]

Still can't believe how many people here in California STILL think cellar spiders are brown recluse. Love this tier video, Spencer

[@MyWildBackyard]

Thanks man! I think it’s the dark patch on the thorax that gives that impression. But their web building habits give them away!

[@jerryworshiper1587]

@@MyWildBackyard also, the skinny legs. no recluse is that skinny.

[@Richard-g4u1r]

They're known as Daddy Long Legs all over New England. I've never heard of anyone being bitten by one. And I've seen a million of them.

[@janegarner6739]

Yes, we had daddy long legs all over our front porch and they never bothered anyone. They were very common where I grew up in the southeastern U.S. We also had a big nest of black widows who had made their home in our lumber shed, along with a nest of pygmy rattlesnakes. I was still a child (1950s) & loved sitting in the shed & watching the black widows. I sat still, never made threatening movements, & occasionally one of the spiders would walk across my leg or foot. We had lots of snakes too, including several species of rattlesnakes, but no one ever got bit. We played in the woods a lot, but we were taught from an early age how to walk in the woods so that the snakes would know we were there & would have time to hide or leave. No one was ever bit by a rattlesnake or a spider, except my cousin who got bit by a brown recluse who was in the dirty laundry hamper.. My cousin was only around 5 & was very thin & small, & he became very ill. The doctor came to treat him daily for about two weeks, till he was much better. The thing is, most animals won't attack humans except when a human is seen as a threat---that is, when the human doesn't honor the animal's territory & comes through rudely without warning.

[@dawnt1974]

I caught them as a child and still do to this day! I’ve caught some pretty huge ones ❣️

[@supernova00500]

From what I hear they aren't dangerous to humans, but they certainly are Widow Killers, they chase just about every other spider species away

[@Rosko3333]

I was bit by a brown recluse according to e.r. Dr., I had developed a blood infection with red line progressing away from the bite towards my heart.Dr. said I was fortunate to have had it checked out immediately.The skin was peeling away from the bite in a circle of layers,almost like a sunburn.Never felt the bite.

[@frankG335]

I had that same thing with the skin peeling away in a round pattern. From a black widow bite.

[@timwiliusa6564]

Thanks for making this video g

[@e137enfingers5]

You sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. Keep up the good work

[@jamiejones7325]

1. I’m taller than my brother, yet after being poisoned, he left hospital same day, I had to remain almost a week. Why? 2. We had old science book claimed Australia had no cats anymore because they keep attacking poisonous spiders and snakes etc. Yet ALL our Australian acquaintances have cats insisting they need them just for that reason. What gives? Thanks, now heebeegeebees nightmares.🥺

[@Choso_gaming]

1. I would guess body mass, or it could have just been dosage, hard to say with little info

[@jamiejones7325]

@@Choso_gaming Dr explained gender difference, his heart stronger, respiration and circulation and despite height he more ‘dense’…that’s for sure 😆

[@robertwhite3752]

I’m one of those guys that would rather swim across the Nile river than have to deal with a spider or a snake. I just do t like them, A LOT! True most spiders in the United States are absolutely harmless. But, the harm comes when someone is allergic. Just like with bees, or wasp, and other insects. Spider venom varies greatly between people, and where a bite from some of these spiders that made it to the A and S list may cause just minor symptoms in some people, that same bite, and that same amount of venom can cause rather very unpleasant symptoms in the next person. I know several people that have been bitten by the common black widow in Arizona and in two of those bites there was only minor spasms and a little fatigue. The third person I know that was bitten suffered for about 36 hours from very bad spasms, burning searing pain in the bite area, profuse vomiting, and what he described as a bad LSD trip. I just steer clear of them no matter the race, color, or creed!

[@Taketimeout3]

Please, people, if you meet a spider don't just step on it or kill it. Leave it be or help it. Big or tiny, we are all the same. Like us they want to live and, strange as it may sound, to be content, maybe happy. This is a quality channel. This is what makes KZbin great. Subbed .

[@captaincobratgaming718]

First view! Also, kinda unrelated question but, are you a caramel or carmel person.

[@MyWildBackyard]

Uhhh honestly it depends. Grew up as a “carmel” person but I definitely say “care-a-mel” as well sometimes. Funny little nuances and imperfections of language 😂

[@jraddd3477]

Probably a camel Spider person...

[@MyWildBackyard]

@@jraddd3477😂

[@waynejohnson1304]

I was bitten by a grayish-brown Brown Recluse spider last year. It was in my slipper. The next day, my whole body swelled up to the point that I couldn't get my wristwatch on. I had no idea what was causing it until my big toe turned pink, and then, a bright lobster red. After that happened, half of my big toe turned black and I noticed the bite marks and a scab that had developed. I Googled the symptoms and found they matched up to the Brown Recluse. I saw such a spider in my room a few months earlier. I sucked it off my bed and into my mini-vac and brought it outside, but, it came back in and hid in my slipper. It bit me a few more times, but, I had no severe symptoms from those bites. I don't know if it is still alive or if it died.

[@ju00]

You lost your SCIENTIST card when you called Daddy Longlegs a Spider

[@MorghynLeFae]

They also don't even have venom at all, so no clue where he's getting this information. They have grasping mouthparts, rather than fangs.

[@livewiki341]

There is two different kinds of “daddy long leg.” The one that isn’t a spider and can’t doesn’t have venom, and then the long legged, spindly caller spiders. They both have the same moniker

[@tylerbrunton7696]

Fishing spiders, or dock spiders, are super common up here in Canada.

[@victorcontreras3368]

I must say that I admire and appreciate your bravery in making these great videos for the viewers to see ❤