TERRIFIED BRITISH GUY React to the MOST VENOMOUS SPIDERS in AMERICA..

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[@JoeSchwartz-yx3jg]

Would love to see you watch the horror comedy Arachnophobia

[@Devon-nw6ul]

You need to react to tripophobia videos and see if you have it

[@nialcc]

I went camping one time in Oregon. Something was in my sleeping bag and in the morning I had a large bump on my thigh with a pin sized hole that ran with puss down my leg. That afternoon I couldn't walk and had to go to the hospital. I never learned what bit me but I had to take I don't know what kind of IV drip and couldn't eat or walk for days. Needless to say I haven't been outdoor camping since.

[@kirasutton1973]

I hate that feeling of having things crawling all over me, and it's worse when you think it's a spider. We all feel your pain Adam. But you are strong, and shall endure!

[@MoreAdamCouser]

hahaha thank you!

[@snewsh]

Was at my computer when I got that crawling feeling on my hand. I looked down and saw a giantass spider crawling across my hand. I jump up, whipped my hand away out of reflex and flung that little fucker God knows where into my room😭

[@OrcDragon65]

Here's a cool thing about what you said at 13:20 about size. The bigger the arachnid, often the less toxic because it's using it's (relative to other arachnids mind you) larger size and larger fangs to damage its prey. Look at your favorite fantasy video game. Assassins with smaller daggers use poison, the barbarian or the knight with the big axe or sword doesn't need the help, their natural weapons do the work. That's why the vast majority of tarantulas are harmless to humans. Their increased size and strength and larger fangs do the job just fine. Scorpions with bigger claws tend to be less venomous because they outmuscle their prey, the sting is the secondary weapon. Smaller scorpions or ones with big fat tails (ei the Fat Tailed Scorpions) use those tails and their venom glands much more. Size is a wierd reverse concept when it comes to venomous animals.

[@revgurley]

16:19 Those are "Writing spiders." They exist in Georgia, too. You can spot them, other than their huge size, because they "write" a little zig-zag in their webs. We also have Orb spiders who build webs near the porch and other outdoor lights so they can catch bugs. Those are kind enough to take down their webs every morning, then rebuild every night. As long as you're not headed outside late late at night, you won't even see the web during normal hours. Pretty sure they're harmless to people, and like I said, they're experts at catching bugs. We named one "Orby," and last year we had "Fred." Leave 'em alone and let them catch the itchy bugs.

[@pamelalee1508]

Yep..the 'writing' spiders...as a child in north Florida..where the existing Jacksonville International Airport stands..we had them all over the bushes in the woods and they were huge... here's the tale we were told.. When you see them..cover your mouth...they can read your teeth and write your names in the web... What happens then was never told to us 😬... 🌿🌿🌿

[@devlyn873]

My grandpa got bitten by a brown recluse spider once (it fell into his face when he'd climbed up to clean the gutters) and while he recovered, it legit looked like he'd been hit by a car for a couple weeks after.

[@crowe6961]

Meanwhile, I used to know a guy who got bitten by 3 while cleaning out his office and nothing particularly bad happened. Cytotoxins are either particularly weird, or brown recluses give warning bites with limited amounts of venom quite often. Maybe both.

[@dixie0625]

My mom was bitten by one in the attic and didn't even realize it until a huge rash crept up her leg. The toxin was rotting her leg from the inside out, but she didn't know it. The only one who sensed how serious this was was our golden retriever. For weeks, she would spend hours every night in bed licking my mom's leg. Later, my mom's doctor said she was very lucky because the dog's tongue applied gentle, massaging pressure that promoted the circulation of blood and antibodies; without the dog's help, he said they probably would have had to amputate the leg due to tissue necrosis. Years later, you can still see that all of my mom's leg veins near the bite are a deep purplish-blue hue from the trauma.

[@sebastiankeller6646]

Brown recluse is the only posionous one in my area, thanks for scaring me buddy!😨😰😰😱

[@PrisPrivate]

@@crowe6961 The truth is brown recluse bites just aren’t severe for the most part! Unfortunately, serious necrotic infections are often misdiagnosed as a brown recluse bite due to that association, despite there being little evidence to suggest they actually can cause such symptoms. Brown recluse bites CAN be severe in extremely rare cases, but 99.9% of bites will be inconsequential. Mild necrosis is possible (though quite rare) but certainly not the gaping wounds people often associate with this spider! I hope this helps :)

[@bundleofbasil]

​@PrisPrivate you beat me to it!

[@stevedavis5704]

My mother was in college for her RN license and one of the assignments in speech was to demonstrate something that you liked. One of the girls brought her huge pet tarantula to talk about. Some of the kids had to leave the classroom and even the teacher (who was deathly afraid of spiders) got as far from the presentation area as possible.

[@somecallmetim2112]

Florida resident here. Never ever heard of the Red Widow before this video. I've only seen a few Black Widows in my life, maybe 5. However, at every apartment and house I have had, the garages and porches have been chock full of brown widows. Brown Recluses tend to hide in shoes, then bite because they get stepped on.

[@ryanallfrey1666]

as a kid, I practically lived in the woods of Central Florida (Brevard County). We used to cut tunnels through the dead fronds of the scrub palms. I have encountered enough that I was surprised when he said they were rare. Based on what he said, they do not range into North Florida

[@somecallmetim2112]

@@ryanallfrey1666 I also grew up and currently live in Brevard County. :)

[@Dr_Kyutoko]

I saw the title and thought "Oh Adam is not gonna have a good day" I had to kill a black widow at my first job. Came up from texas in a shipment of beehives and I was cleaning the wax off of the lids and I flipped a lid around and there she was. I'm not afraid of spiders or anything, but dude, PLEASE STOP PICKING UP THE VENOMOUS SPIDERS!! I'm getting second-hand anxiety here.

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

I do nature photography and those yellow big spiders (Orbweavers) are incredibly calm. They will not bite you. They will not bolt. They just sit there waiting for bugs to fly into their webs. They are very easy to be around. They dont want to crawl on you. They want to completely ignore you. Weavers and Jumpers are 2 of my favorite creatures to photograph. I love them.

[@ashleyklotz3762]

It's like Steve Irwin "oh look, a gator, one of the most lethal creatures... I'm gonna touch it" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@akita21154]

I was bitten by a brown recluse. Extremely painful, difficulty moving my leg bc of the pain. The initial site became neurotic & the core had to be removed. But there's so much that it's to painful to t take it out @ 1 time. It metastasized & caused another rupture right next to the initial site. It left 2 scars & took about 3 months to finally heal. When it becomes necrotic, the skin around the site is dead so it has to be removed by a very thin, sharp scalpel. Numbing the area didn't work bc of so much damage & infection. Outward from the area I developed inflammation to most of my thigh. Nothing stopped the pain. It was a long, painful 3 months. So always ck your shoes & socks b4 & after you've been in the yard. They don't mind hanging out in your home. Be very, very careful. It was sm but packed a huge punch. All better but very leary. Have a good one & remember to be careful in your home

[@joshz7712]

Haven't started the video yet. I know from some previous videos how scared of spiders you are, and the fact that you're doing this for our enjoyment is commendable. The only way you're going to overcome your phobia is to face it head on and what better way than with support. Some people know how to handle venomous animals. I've carried an picked up multiple venomous spiders and snakes. The key is to not stress out the animal. Like a spider crawling on you, unless you intentionally mess with it, you're more than likely not going to get bit.

[@thseed7]

Went to bed and opened my window for fresh air. When I woke up, I went to close it and the first Black Widow I've ever seen had built its web just on the other side of the screen behind my head. That is why Americans have screens on their windows. If it wasn't there, Black Widow may have been setting up shop in our bedroom.

[@PrisPrivate]

I can assure you that you are not under constant threat of spiders, not in the United States, or anywhere on the planet. You were in absolutely no danger in that situation. Spiders want nothing to do with us and have no interest in interacting with us. Bites happen when a spider feels threatened, and there are very easy measures that can be taken to avoid such a situation! As someone who studies spiders, and has worked with over a dozen individual black widows, I can assure you that they are not monsters, just animals! I hope this helps :)

[@YetiUprising]

I often go hiking and get webbed in the face or get web strands wrapped around my limbs all the time. I usually have a jumping spider that lives in my bedroom window too.

[@kennethcook9406]

Jumping spiders, if we're thinking of the same ones, are cute! I personally feel the same way about spiders, bees, wasps, and hornets. Fuzzy = cute. Even Tarantulas. Smooth = "Get the F#@% away from me!"

[@greeneyedlady5580]

​@@kennethcook9406 Years ago I was living in an apartment building in Montana. I'd finally gotten my son to bed, had lit some cancelled in my room, turned off most of the lights, and was enjoying a phone call with a friend. I turned away from the bookshelf with the candles, and was headed for my bed, when a big tarantula ran across the floor towards me. I screamed so loud that whoever's pet it had been probably heard me. They didn't get their pet back, it's life was cut short by a book of poetry.

[@Whatthechuckttv]

jumping spider = Lucas (google it)

[@Some_who_call_me_Tiim]

I always get webbed in the face from those parachuting baby spiders (I don't remember the name) wind blows em around.

[@epongeverte]

When I was a kid, I went with my grandparents to visit their friends in Nashville, Tennessee. I was running through the back garden and stopped right before I ran into a giant web bigger than me. In the middle of it was a green and yellow spider that was 1/2 the size of my head. I almost fainted looking at it. I don't think that I will ever forget that horrifying spider.

[@DethOnHigh]

Banana spider. Pretty common in the South. I never saw one until I was stationed in Texas.

[@cde1147]

My next door neighbor was bitten by a brown recluse and passed away due to complications from the venom. 70+ year old diabetic, hep C, wheelchair bound. Was bitten on the leg, infection set in, along with necrosis. Had the leg amputated, but passed away due to the infection damaging his kidneys and other vital organs. Pretty scary on their own, but with compromised immune systems its usually a death sentence. This happened in Southern California.

[@thedeviouspanda]

Poor guy.

[@valeriebland2642]

I’m from North Carolina, I’ve seen plenty of black widows, never bitten. A friend of mine found a hole in the yard of a dog she was pet sitting, it was full of black widows. The home owner burned them out I believe. My aunt was bitten by a brown recluse, she wad laid up for a few months. Pain, swelling, bite site became a sore.

[@misty3941]

You'd 💩 yourself if you saw my pet tarantula I have. He's just an 8-legged puppy. 🤣

[@MoreAdamCouser]

pls do not hahaha

[@misty3941]

🤣

[@Whatthechuckttv]

My mother was the victim of a brown recluse bite back in the late 1980s. It was something she never really got over. She was left with lifelong issues in the bite area as the site got necrotic and it became an open wound that was literally just rotting away the flesh. After probably 20 years of treating this wound, it finally healed up enough that it stopped growing and killing surround tissue. She never stopped doing her thing and working 12-16 hours a day on her feet as a barber with this open necrotic hole in her ankle but it did leave her with some nerve damage that she never recovered from.

[@thebrhinocerous]

When I lived on military housing, our apartment was infested with Brown Recluses, to the point that an exterminator had to come in, remove all of the light switch and outlet covers and spray inside of the walls. I found one walking across the floor that was so big, when I picked it up with a fork (after killing it with spider spray), the legs wrapped around and under the tines of the fork and overlapped. It was awesome. I now live in Southern California and the Western Black Widow is basically everywhere. If you use a propane torch to kill them, they sort of pop. Also, there's probably a spider crawling on your back as you're reading this.

[@bobprivate8575]

@2:00 "One of the most venomous spiders in the US, and this bastard's got one on his hand!" No, he's perfectly fine. He has one on the CAMERAMAN'S hand.

[@abp2005]

If you want to fully explore our arachnids, we also have scorpions.

[@MoreAdamCouser]

no thank u hahaha

[@jaysverrisson1536]

And giant centipedes, too!

[@riwajropakheti1613]

​​@@jaysverrisson1536 centipedes aren't arachnids, they are myriapods.

[@eeik5150]

And centipedes that will wreck your world.

[@jaysverrisson1536]

@@riwajropakheti1613 I'm aware of that, but they're hideous arthropods that can bite and I personally find scarier than spiders! Especially the giant ones in desert and tropical climates!

[@ianboan9186]

"Mental bastard" 😂

[@angelagraves865]

I get it. I used to be very afraid of spiders until I started watching them. I still don't want them on me, but I can co-exist with them comfortably now. There was a black widow living outside my front door years ago and I used to give her bugs so I could watch her eat. She ended up getting pretty big. She would bring her egg sac out in the sun, turn it a couple times a day, and take it back under the porch where she lived when the sun went down. Some of my guests didn't appreciate her as much and thought she'd come inside and kill me in the night. 😆 A friend ended up killer her, but I can't fault him for it. She was weaving a web across the back door and when he walked out the spider was on his chest. He brushed her off but they're delicate and it killer her. We joked that it was like that Far Side cartoon where the spiders are weaving a web across the bottom of the playground slide and talking about how they'll eat like kings if they can pull it off (getting a kid). Lol I have quite a few spiders that I'm aware of, including a few black widows, living in my apartment now. They keep to themselves and take care of insects that get in. A few years ago when I moved in my current apt a large eucalyptus tree was cut down behind my yard and a few large black caterpillars managed to make it to my back porch. The brown widows living out there rushed them and killed them all. It was amazing but a bummer. I don't know what kind of moths or butterflies they would have been but I really wanted to watch them make cocoons and later emerge.

[@ShelleyMagner]

Cool story :) Thank you for sharing.

[@sebastiankeller6646]

He thinks an average day in America is just a spider building a web on you lol

[@PrisPrivate]

It’s funny because Americans think the same thing about Australia despite that not being further from the truth

[@HBC423]

Down in the south it is

[@PrisPrivate]

@@HBC423 Not at all! I’ve grown up in the south my entire life and can assure you we aren’t being taken over by spiders lol

[@HBC423]

@@PrisPrivate I’ve lived in Tennessee my entire life and have spiders everywhere you look

[@PrisPrivate]

@@HBC423 I’m not sure how to respond, there are spiders all over the place yes, but that’s absolutely not exclusive to the southern US, it’s a worldwide phenomenon! Spiders are among the most successful arachnids, so they are quite common. But no, that’s not unique to the south whatsoever

[@mcsigler]

I feel the same as you Adam about spiders, but I laughed until the tears started. Congratulations on getting through the video with no nightmares, I hope. 😖

[@SomeGuy4245-f1v]

Never had too much issues with spiders myself, but I get it. The large female Black and Yellow Garden Spiders I'd find in my grandpa's field are probably the scariest looking we get here, but not dangerous, and pretty docile.

[@Rebecca-vk3uh]

I hate spiders too. My husband and I encountered a brown recluse in a cabin we were staying in and I was like F this I’m sleeping in the car! Even he was unsettled and he’s my personal spider exterminator. He gets so annoyed with me freaking out over spiders because a freeze and yell at him to come rescue me lol One night he was already comfy in bed and I saw one and I of course freaked out and asked him to kill it and he wouldn’t get out of the bed and kept telling me to just kill it and was saying you are bigger than the spider! I then began begging him and told him it was coming closer to me. He still refused to so I resorted to a threat. I said, “ Nick, if I lose sight of this spider I won’t sleep tonight and neither will you!” He immediately got up and killed it 😂 He knew what he was getting in to when he married me lol We lived together for 5 years before we got married.

[@flaminggaming143]

He’s holding them all cause he was trained how to move with them on his body. Arachnid experts are taught to make slow and very very subtle movements when dealing with spiders, the generally dont care and wont attack but if you make ecstatic and jittery movements itll cause them to get scared and bite

[@Eboy246]

When I was 4 years old, I couldn't get out of my outdoor playhouse because a brown recluse spider was blocking the door. I screamed, and my mother and grandfather came outside to lift the playhouse up so I could get out. I'm so grateful I didn't get bitten...

[@johnkacin1500]

Listen man... when i was about 13 or 14 i was cutting through a stand of woods in between a convience store and a couple of houses going back home from summer school. The people who lived in those houses would throw their grass clippings in there and i tripped over a tree root falling into one of the grass piles. As soon as i hit it a swarm of bees came out covering me from head to toe. I told myself "just keep it together and don't move a single muscle". Maybe 10 to 15 minutes later they left. Snakes spiders and Bees are terrifying but they serve a purpose in the ecosystem around us. They are our friends even though it is unintentionally.

[@bundleofbasil]

The spider video is from KZbin channel MyWildBackyard! He's a wonderful educator and has many more videos worth watching. 👍

[@hiheeledsneakers]

I live outside Atlanta Georgia and have seen over 100 Black widows. My mom was bitten when one was hiding in her shoe. I beat on that shoe for a long long while to see what was there and a juvenile black widow fell out. She had cramps in her legs for 3 weeks. I was told if they bite above the waist, your heart could have trouble.

[@tandaknights9047]

There are people who "milk" spiders just like snakes for their venom. Even here in the upper midwest Wisconsin brown recluse live here, in wood piles and brush.

[@rff2552]

I've lived in AZ most of my 60 years. I've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild, seen very few scorpions, a few Brown recluse (aggressive little fuckers) and tons of black widows, mostly in the warmer months. I HATE SPIDERS but have never been bitten. Knock on wood!

[@thedeviouspanda]

I've seen my fair share of scorpions and finally last year I got stung for the first time in my entire life, having spent all of it in AZ. Didn't check my shoes, and I know I get scorpions in this apartment so it was a dumb mistake.

[@brallin94]

Only run in with a brown recluse I've had was at boot camp (military training). It had made its web in one of the urinals... we all stayed far away from it lmao. Loving your videos btw man! Keep it up!

[@kevinziegler1756]

loving the switchup of vids lately. great choices

[@AhNee]

When I was taking care of dad's house in Huntington Beach, CA, there were brown widows everywhere, and I also came across one black widow.

[@roberteytchison556]

You would'nt like the orb spider that I met a couple years ago when she decided to use my main door as a place for her web. About a 2 inch black and bright yellow body sitting in the center of a beautiful orb web right at face level. Glad i was not in a hurry that morning. Beautiful but not poisonous to humans.

[@DethOnHigh]

I used to be a paramedic in Iowa for about a decade. I've only seen less than 10 suspected brown recluse bites and only 2-3 confirmed bites that caused significant tissue necrosis. One was a guy I went to college with and we asked why he had a 4x4 gause pad medical taped to his face and he simply said "recluse bite" and my reply was "Sweet! We get to watch half of your face sluff off!". He wasn't amused. He let me look at it and I was very impressed by the necrosis it has caused. Fortunately for him the would was already started to close off the hole where the dead tissue was excised in the hospital ER. The hole in his cheek was about the size of a 50 cent piece and about half an inch deep.

[@PrisPrivate]

The thing is, recluse bites aren’t typically severe at all! Doctors aren’t required to be arachnologists, and often will see a necrotic would (regardless of it being caused by a spider, most likely not) and because of the association with the brown recluse it is diagnosed as such. Unless the actual spider is seen and confidently identified by someone who knows spiders, it should be assumed not to be a brown recluse. Bacterial infections can be very serious, far more deadly than any spider, and misdiagnosis can often lead to serious consequences. What I’m saying is… no one is perfect, and we should do everything we can to stop the spread of harmful misinformation. I hope this helps :)

[@texanrob]

Adam I live in Texas and these spiders and snakes all live here. Black widows and rattlesnakes are all around my home in south Texas where it is very warm and tropical. I love your reactions to these animals! 😜

[@carriemilito2851]

My biology teacher used to keep his pet tarantula in a large glass tank in our classroom. I didn't mind as long as he stayed in his habitat.

[@TheNeonParadox]

Black widow bites are wildly overblown. I used to raise them for a local venom research lab, as a side hustle. I've been bit a ton, and honestly, unless you're a baby or have a compromised immune system, it's an afternoon of aching muscles and a little vomiting. I've had worse experiences eating seafood. Lol

[@michaelneely4002]

I've been bit twice by Black widows once on the arm and didn't have to bad symptoms. I got bit between the shoulder blades that one made me feel like I was having a heart attack for 3 days all my muscles were sore it wasn't fun, but I got over it. You could see the fang holes and they were full of puss, it swelled up and had a big red patch on my back. It also left a scare.

[@PrisPrivate]

For the most part widow bites aren’t severe at all, the symptoms you describe are about the most severe you can possibly get from a widow bite!

[@willcool713]

In Oregon, there's a relatively newly discovered venomous spider in the last decade or so, the Purple NW Orb Weaver, or that's what it was being called last time I read about it. It has intricate markings that, to me, resemble a ringed octopus, but are more ornate. The venom is supposedly comparable to the Brown Recluse, Fiddlebacks, which I have also seen here, though they aren't supposed to be here. There are Black Widows in my building, and I have seen babies in my apartment. I have been bitten before, on my shin. The venom turned the area necrotic, and the effect let a webwork of invasive bacteria spread across my leg. The doctor didn't believe it had started from a bite (which was very clear early on), and insisted on treating me for MRSA. The venom killed area did not respond to antibiotics, of course, and so they were lining me up for deciding between amputation and chemotherapy. Amazingly (LOL), after three days, the central area started to get better on its own, never responding to the vancomycin, but they considered it miraculous. Without antibiotics the necrosis probably would have continued to spread. But the initial issue was the spider venom, that they wouldn't believe and wouldn't take into consideration, even when I showed them pictures of the spiders in my place. I worry about my cat, but mostly I don't worry. I found a Hobo spider behind my dresser once that was bigger across than my hand, the body as big as my pinky. It turned, looked up at me, reared up its front legs, made eye contact and hissed at me. I was amazed that it clocked the larger world and was so aggressive. I slapped a jar over it and took it outside. But I never figured out what it had been eating to get so big.

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Youd have to try really hard to be bitten by an orb weaver though. They are the calmest group of spiders on the planet. I do nature photography and the weavers are the easiest to work w. By far…

[@kennethcook9406]

Sorry, but your story is filled with too many scientific inaccuracies and inconsistencies to be believed. Let's start with the fact that Black Widow venom is a neurotoxin. it affects your nervous system, it doesn't cause tissue necrosis. Everything in the middle was your own fault for misidentifying the offending spider. And the last part wasn't a "hobo spider" it was a tarantula.

[@aliciasavage6801]

In Colorado we have had some huge black widow seasons. I live next to a creek and have found several webs and egg saks on my patio. Use vinegar to dissolve them because they are tough and super sticky to get rid of. I am terrified of them.

[@philipbutler6608]

I know someone who was bit on the leg by a brown recluse and it landed him in the hospital with a baseball size ulcer that made a deep hole in his calf.

[@widowkeeper4739]

I keep numerous kinds of arachnids, including black widows and brown recluses as pets. They're really very chill little animals, which is why the guy in the video is handling them barehanded. I'm more wary around some of my Old World tarantulas than I am about any of my American species.

[@easterlingderek34]

Black Widows love cold Damp places. I was grabbing 2x4’s out from underneath a cover and nearly squeezed 2 Black Widows in my hand on two separate Occasions. I can attest to it is always best to be careful reaching under stuff needless to say I always use a Hammer to lift anything up thats been on the wet damp ground.

[@mels607]

we have DOZENS of big yellow orb-weavers outside our house every year, growing up I used to feed them crickets lol. never feared a bite unless I accidentally walked into a web but even then they'll usually move away from you. it's the brown recluses we have to watch out for, they like to sneak into your house and hide in your clothes piles.

[@2002c5z06]

I’m not trying to minimize the fear, these things suck, but they are so small that the amount of venom they deliver is small and it’s all about how you individually react (like with bees). I’m a Florida native and have had a couple black widow bites and it’s “just” like a flu for me, body aches and fever for a day or so, but my dad had days of nausea, aches and spasms

[@PrisPrivate]

This is exactly right, spiders are not dangerous at all for the most part, at least in the United States. And it takes a lot to get them to bite in the first place. The symptoms you describe for a black widow bite are pretty commonplace across the board, there’s never been a death attributed to any widow spider in the United States, and only a small handful worldwide, all of which happening many decades ago.

[@2002c5z06]

@@PrisPrivate Agreed 100% my bites came from digging around working on cars that had been sitting for a while, so I definitely upset them unintentionally. You normally see them way before they even care about you

[@GQkid13]

I've seen a few black widows in my lifetime..... but we once had a brown recluse infestation in our house once..... crazy.... none of us got bitten thankfully!!

[@barbarahart]

Much respect for facing your fear of spiders. I remember when I lived out in the country in Texas, I would always come across black widows and wolf spiders. Once I picked up a black widow with a stick to get an up close look, but would never let it on my hand like the dude in the video. Enjoyed your reaction. 🤟

[@sleepyhyrule6894]

Technically the Grand Daddy Long Legs is the most venomous spider in the US, but it’s found in other places too. It’s mouth parts are too small to bite humans, though having the strongest spider venom in the world.

[@anhack13]

The zipper/garden/Charlotte spider are huge but are extremely reluctant to bite and are not super toxic that feels like a bee or wasp sting. We have several in our yard.

[@Charlee1776]

I once had a bit of an allergic reaction to a bite from what we believe was a large wolf spider. I had a lump roughly the size of a softball in the front of my upper thigh for over a month with 2 large gaping holes that wouldn't close. It stands out in my memory because I remember still having it when I went to OzFest later that summer and I was bummed that I had to wear long pants to hide it.

[@lindah5910]

Just this morning here in the San Joaquin Valley of California I went out to start a load of laundry and about a 3/4 grown lady black widow spider with her little red hourglass on her undercarriage was dangling from the ceiling of the garage about 1 foot above the washer. She wasn't there yesterday morning. Um, what to do. I opened the near side garage door that opened to the side garden. Checked out her hanging web which looked substantial. Put on a leather gardening glove. Reached out and grabbed the hanging web and swung her out the door then stomped her gone with my sandaled foot. These will be around now through to near freeze time in late November. It's quite an experience.

[@Frog_king11]

I always wondered how people can ignore their natural instinct to stay away from spiders.

[@brucegreenberg7573]

Don’t worry, that’s Spencer Hoffman , professional spider hunter. He’s got some amazing videos on exotic animals. Check them out.

[@PrisPrivate]

Yes! Literally my favorite channel, I wish he was credited here welp. I found this video cause someone sent it in his server haha

[@LateNiteListener]

Thanks, Adam, for being such a good sport about doing this one.

[@babyfry4775]

I’ve only seen one brown recluse and one black widow. Don’t want to see anymore. Yeah it’s hard to watch them crawl on him. Never seen a poisonous snake around and I’m thankful.

[@dillonpierce7869]

Now in Texas we basically have a bunch of web spinners/builders and the big tarantulas..... It's orb weaver season now we'll be seeing them til winter hits again. Also tarantula mating season so we should see a few of them next couple months as well. Hopefully I can catch one or a few.....

[@truthseeker6046]

Bless you, brave boy! 🙏🏽

[@angelastewart7049]

We have the large black and yellow Orb Weaver 3:41 here in Georgia. We call them banana spiders. Despite their size, they are not dangerous, although they can leave a nasty bite. Some here have laid eggs the size of ping pong balls and have been known to catch tiny snakes or hummingbirds in their webs.

[@TannerLamb-pn4gi]

Should react to the biggest spiders next lmao

[@jimstratton3902]

The look of absolute disgust on your face during this video… priceless!! 😂

[@tomasphadraig]

This video was probably the one I wanted to see most! Next up has to be the most venomous spiders in Australia! Some incredible beasts down under!

[@Addibaddii]

3:44 Seen one of those in my backyard. They are horrifying, but luckily tend to stay outside. Their webs are beautiful

[@barrythompson7776]

I actually sang at a funeral for someone who died from a black widow bite. She had been working in the yard and felt something like a bite or sting but didn't see anything. She was very ill and within days they realized she had been bitten and it was too late.

[@RevPeterTrabaris]

Bravo, Adam! You got through it. Here's praying none of us have to meet any of them, any time soon. At least you don't have to deal with them where you live. Peace

[@revgurley]

Look up a Huntsman or Wolf Spider (or don't, they are nightmare fuel). We had them in the house I grew up in in Florida. Size of dinner plates. Luckily, they didn't come around much. My mother tells a story when I was an infant, she a new mother, as she walked down the hall to my nursery to check on me one night. She could HEAR the spider walking along the wall before she saw it. She screamed and grabbed the vacuum cleaner. There's a bit of a superstition that you aren't to kill those "House Mother" spiders. So she vacuumed it up. Killed the spider AND the vacuum cleaner. Oh well. I'm just glad I was too young to remember it.

[@NatPat-yj2or]

Anyone voluntarily putting spiders - especially dangerous spiders on their bodies are truly mentally ill. He needs a padded cell and professional help.

[@brittanyrose6388]

I was bit 3 times in total by a young brown recluse and the bites itched, they welted and spread. I went to the ER and they just said to put antibiotic cream on them and monitor. 4 days later they looked like bruises, and I was feeling very weak and had chills. Went back to the ER and they said they were definitely brown recluse bites, and I were infected. I went on a wide range antibiotic for 10 days. I healed but was feeling sick for about a month. We found out later there was a nest of them under my porch chair.

[@mscharlie]

that one spider with the yellow belly is a garden spider.. i have them in my garden,, they are beautiful.. they keep down the pests in the garden.. along with the praying matis.. they are beautiful too..

[@MrDpool1]

Spiders use venom to attack prey and it takes a lot of energy to produce venom. Most spiders only waste that venom by biting things they can’t eat (like humans) as an involuntary reflex if they think they are being crushed.

[@squeebers]

10:20 I used to live in a house that had a brown recluse spider infestation. I don't think we ever got bit. And if we did, the bite only got super big like quarter sized for a of couple weeks. I think we must've gotten a sort of immunity to it.

[@DinoPwn]

The video this is from is My Wild Backyard. The dude's name is Spencer. He has amazing wildlife content

[@Mtndude76]

The place I worked at in North alabama was crawling with black widow spiders. We used to catch them and put them in empty water bottles to scare the girls.

[@darknessinmusic]

Arachnophobia suffer here. I live in Georgia (USA) and I hate spiders. Working outside yesterday a brown recluse jumped at me. I almost threw up and 100% had to hug my husband. I have been bit by a few different spiders and currently have a spider bite on my thigh. Hurts like hell. One of the scariest looking spiders in Ga is actually not dangerous. Garden spiders can get huge and look so scary. They also make crazy big webs with a zig zag down the middle.

[@bevinboulder5039]

You're very brave to do this. It's been very entertaining watching you react. Thank you.

[@jackieperkins3861]

He also didn't tell you the brown recluse has a violin shape on it so you can tell it from a regular wood spider, just like the black widow has an hour glass the brown recluse has a violin on it!

[@jackieperkins3861]

I know a man his name is Dean who got bit by a brown recluse and had to retire from the army, he has a huge scar on his leg where they surgically had to remove rotten skin and muscle from his leg. $0 years later hwe still has neuroligical problems and is disabled from this spider bite! I also have 3 children who were bit by a brown recluse but thankfully I took them to the ER and they received antibiotics and treatment before it damaged them. Where it bites you it starts spreading out royying the area and makes like a bullseye and keeps spreading and if not treated you'll end up like my friend Dean or in some cases an amputated limb or death from gang green!

[@SheldonMurphy-fp4ko]

Bites tend to be on the arms or legs so if your ever in the area of these kinds of threats, it's more knowing where not to be and having good pants/boots that kinda seal. Heard a good story of a cave diver who went into an unknown cave, about halfway down, rappelling, he felt something off then started to see all the black widows. It was a den and he couldn't get at what he needed to go back up the rope, so he had to descend with these things crawling down the rope, all over the walls, dropping on him. He somehow managed to get out without a bite. Also if your out for a bit, you might relax and take your boots off for a bit, always check them before you put them on. 2nd it's always the small ones that are the most venomous, if something big bites you it's probably fine. But if something small bites you don't keep it to yourself cause it needs to be dealt with quick.

[@MFCOOL83]

Congrats Adam, you made it through the video way better than I did, Had the left side of my screen covered..... So I applaud you 👏👏Massive W

[@NinjaZXRR]

I tend to use a Barbecue lighter and a can of paint, it works very well, when they are outside. In the house I use my airsoft pistol at 395fps. It works well.

[@xiaocatmaster3754]

Love Black Widow spiders. There were a lot in my parents basement growing up. Loved to keep them in jars and feed them crickets

[@shadowhenge7118]

I laid my arm down in a nest of them (recluse) crawling in a garage. Had 12 "zits" afterwards that ladted for years but it never went necrotic. Just clean the wounds in a few years they go away.

[@markchristensen23]

There were black widow spiders near the pool at my grandparents' house in Arizona. Even found them in closets on occasion.

[@KenzieTrinityDeasy]

I used to have Arachnophobia, I now really like Tarantulas and own 3.

[@Sin_Alder]

Before you go thinking those three pairs of boots will protect you, just remember. Spiders also like setting up shop in boots.

[@cathirodrigo2933]

I was born & raised in Central FL & I’ve never run across any of these snakes & I hung out in places like you saw. You don’t bother them they won’t bother you. ❤❤❤ Ok the brown recuse is ALL around. I’ve been bit & know lots of people they’ve been bit & we’re all fine. You feel the bite and within 6 hours you know if you need to go to the ER or not.

[@ongitsdave]

I actually currently am healing from a brown recluse bite. It ate a hole out of my left hip because as said in the video, the bite got infected by a MRSA staph infection and started necrotizing the flesh

[@thelifewithburd]

When I lived in Cali we had black widows and brown widows everywhere anything that sits outside to long they like to hide. I got bitten once at 16 years old on my bicep, three days of nausea and arm was stiff as a rock

[@shaneomacfan3]

I am with you, Adam, I'm a mild arachnophobe, luckily, I live in a place where spiders are rarely venomous. I see spiders all the time, and while most of them don't bother me, there are a few that do make me pause. Any spider that is larger than a dime, yeah, I'm not going near unless I absolutely have to.

[@Devon-nw6ul]

I couldnt stop thinking about Charlottes web😂😂😂

[@jenniferandrews1917]

Oh Adam…. I love your reactions. Look, I’ve lived in Las Vegas for over 40 years. You’re coming here next April?? Besides the snakes… I have had personal experiences with a wolf Spider that jumped at me and fought bravely for his life, several scorpions, one that was the size of a muffin, three others that fell through my air conditioning vents, and mostly, female black widows. A few i😢rescued most I killed. ENJOY YOUR STAY, my friend.

[@Chancho707]

I have widows in my side yard. I encounter one hiding in a cardboard box that I was going to rip up and recycle. I saw it ran inside put on boots and started jumping on the box.

[@nocount7517]

The largest true spider in North America is the Carolina Wolf Spider. They're 3-5x the size of their cousins, the Rabid Wolf Spider, which is roughly the same size of, and is visually similar to the American grass spider.

[@PrisPrivate]

The Carolina wolf spider is indeed the biggest! For reference, the way to tell apart wolf spiders and Agelenids (the group that includes the grass spider) is to look at their eyes, the arrangement of wolf spider eyes is very different from Agelenids! I hope this helps :)

[@debischepers2983]

I got bit on the palm of my hand by a brown recluse many years ago. For several months, the skin would itch and then flake off. It spread from the palm of my had all the way around to the back of the hand, but I was very lucky that it didn't totally necrotize (I could have lost my hand if it did). Every once in awhile, still (after more than 8 years), that spot will get itchy and little flakey. Did I mention I really hate spiders now?

[@tanyawales5445]

If you have access to Comfrey make a poultice of the leaves and put it on the affected area. Comfrey is an amazing healer due to allantoin. It is also called boneknit because bones heal very fast using comfrey.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

There are so many brown recluse here, therefore I only relocate the big wood spiders and Daddy Long Legs, all the others get squashed just in case.