These spiders have been terrorizing me and my girlfriend. Biting is in our sleep and when they do it’s been causing nausea, diarrhea, and the bite swells up to the size of a fist
Hi. sorry to hear of injuries, but a spider didn’t do it. Your spider looks to be a running crab spider, Philodromidae family, and no medical record of these causing any significant injury at all. Here is some read for you: https://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-spiders-bite-sleeping-persons http://news.yahoo.com/surprising-cause-most-spider-bites-163944651.html https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-16/six-things-you-believe-about-spiders-are-totally-false My rule of thumb: Unless you catch a spider in the act of biting,you have not been bitten by a spider.
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These spiders have been terrorizing me and my girlfriend. Biting is in our sleep and when they do it’s been causing nausea, diarrhea, and the bite swells up to the size of a fist
Hi. sorry to hear of injuries, but a spider didn’t do it.
Your spider looks to be a running crab spider, Philodromidae family, and no medical record of these causing any significant injury at all. Here is some read for you:
https://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-spiders-bite-sleeping-persons
http://news.yahoo.com/surprising-cause-most-spider-bites-163944651.html
https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-16/six-things-you-believe-about-spiders-are-totally-false
My rule of thumb: Unless you catch a spider in the act of biting,you have not been bitten by a spider.