Just got bit by a bloody spider 😮😮

[Lardlizard]

Never been bitten by one before nasty bloody thing

doesn't have to be a false widow to cause major problems. My bite which led to hospitalisation was from a random house spider in Newcastle over 20 years ago

Are false widows black or brown? I found one in our kitchen bin with a large, shiny round abdomen, at least large compared to the thorax. I'm not prepared to google pictures though so please don't share one! It was like a black widow but with no markings on the abdomen.

I'm glad I found this thread as I was also bitten by a spider and keep trying to convince myself it's fine, while thinking it's not. Mine was while I was gardening on Thursday and it bit me on the belly. I've now got an angry red mark with a jagged outline (like a xmas tree) and the skin has gone hard and itchy. I've been putting bite and sting relief cream on, but think I need to woman up and go to a pharmacist to get something stronger.

Did you manage to take a pic of the bite Lard?

Vicious (and cunning) little bastards lurking in bins and biting gardeners on the stomach! Who said that the spiders were rising up against us? She was right!!

its worth remembering that ANYTHING that breaks the skin can cause infections and complications. There is nothing specific to any spider venom in UK spiders that are particularly dangerous

Jumping spiders.

There is such a thing.

That guy I know that got bitten by a lace web spider in Ireland, we call him Peter Parker now but it was very serious at the time. I hope you are ok today.

There are such things ad jumping spiders. JUMPING.

This is horrific
Have spent years ridding myself of fear by reminding myself they don’t bite and are too scared to come near a human...now it turns out they do bite and they’re just randomly biting people!!!

Be careful. Over the course of a week, my leg swelled up so much that I couldn't walk. I had to have some heavy duty antibiotics. I must be allergic to spider venom. It was only a common British zebra spider!

You said you're 45 mins from London. Is it Kent? We do have false widows here.

A false widow bit me on the cheek in Ireland. It swelled up and I had to get antibiotics. It was really horrible but more the fact that I knew a spider was on my face biting me then actual pain although it did sting

I was also bitten on the leg by a small spider in Jamaica but that didn’t get such a reaction it just swelled up with a hard clear blister and was a bit itchy. I could see the spider clearly crawling down my leg

Mine is about an inch long and an inch wide now, under the skin it's rock solid but thankfully it's not painful.

I think the spiders are cross because they read MN & are fed up with being accused of wiping their willies on 'darked on' washing.
Or you smelt nice & the spider was trying to lick/kiss you.
Or maybe it was a toddler spider having a bad day so hence the bite.
I hope where spider bit you feels better soon.

OMG this thread -
How is it now OP?

Maybe it wanted a bit of cake op

@Lardlizard are you little miss muffet 😂😂

I feel for you though in all serious as i remember grabbing a bowl out of the cupboard once and there was a bloody massive spider in it which I didn't realise til the bugger nipped me!! I was more shocked than anything as didn't realise they bit in this country.

I had a spider amnesty going on for a while. This thread had made me feel like I need to cancel it 😩

I didn't think they did until we had a bunch of segestria florentina spiders arrive and make camp in the crevice that spans the whole height of the house. Only about a cm wide but goes all the way up to the roof.

At night, we could see their legs poking out...

I looked them up.

They have bloody massive fangs and can really give you a nasty bite. Fortunately, they pick places where we're happy to just leave them alone.

Op is now spiderwoman

Or dead

I got stung by a wash earlier. Saw that he was almost half dead on the floor of the stairs. I was taking a pair of socks upstairs to the linen basket at the time so I picked him up with the socks so to put him outside and it stung me through the socks the Lil bastard.

plink plink just looked them up --- oh how I wished I hadn't ....

Got bitten by a jumping spider in India. My fingernail was infected and I had to go to A and E. They squeezed all the stuff out and my nail eventually fell off. I now have to keep my nails short as that one doesn’t grow properly.