Comments & ID Thoughts
Woke with many bites on shoulder blade area
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- Submitted: Sep 26, 2019
- Photographed: Sep 26, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Kennebunk , Maine, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
This is one of the False Widows, possibly Steatoda borealis. They bite people when skin is pressed against them. They are sensitive to physical pressure and bite in self-defense to attempt to get the animal pressing them to move away. The biting doesn’t seem to have awoken you nor was successful self-defense this time. In case you’re wondering, no it isn’t common to wake up in bed with a False Widow spider.