Does Black Widow Bites Hurt?

Question

There was a black widow out in my yard, and I was bouncing a ball, do the bites hurt?

Answer 1

Yes, the Black Widow spider bite is initially painful, but often only mildly or moderately so. Symptoms of headache, nausea, apprehension, fever, rigid abdomen and paresthesias develop fairly soon, within 30 - 60 minutes. Bites to small children are more dangerous. Most adults recover. Black widows frequent trash piles, outhouses, old piles of lumber.

The brown recluse spider bite usually produces no pain initially, but it develops in 2 - 4 hours with redness and swelling and a hemorrhagic blister that eventually ulderates and sloughs. Rarely a person will become very ill with fever, nausea, convulsions, etc.

Answer 2

Although their venom is extremely potent, (15 times as potent than that of the rattlesnakes; it is also reported to be much more potent than the venom of cobras and coral snakes), these spiders are not especially large. Compared to many other species of spiders, their chelicerae are not very large or powerful.In the case of a mature female, the hollow, needle shaped part of each chelicera, the part that penetrates the skin, is approximately 1.0 mm (around .04 inch) long, sufficiently long to inject the venom to a dangerous depth. The males, being much smaller, can inject far less venom and inject it far less deeply. The actual amount injected, even by a mature female, is very small in physical volume. When this small amount of venom is diffused throughout the body of a healthy, mature human, it usually does not amount to a fatal dose (though it can produce the very unpleasant symptoms of Latrodectism). Deaths in healthy adults from Latrodectus bites are relatively rare in terms of the number of bites per thousand people. Only 63 deaths were reported in the United States between 1950 and 1989.Widow spiders have more potent venom than most spiders, and prior to the development of antivenom, 5% of reported bites resulted in fatalities.

Answer 3

The pain starts as similar to a bad sting but grows worse. It develops into nausea, headaches, fever, and an intense burning around the bite. For those like my sister who are allergic to the antivenom the effects can last 2 to 4 days.

Answer 4

ok... i saw a special on tv just a few nites ago about the Black widow spider..
a peep can die from the bite for sure! most live though..

As far as the bite.. the showed peeps on there where the pain was MEGA mega BAD... they were giving them so much pain killer that it was skeery!

so i sure wud not like to get bitten by one.. in fact ..i not liked to get bitten by ANY spiders...yikes...thems is creepy enuf without biting on ya!

Answer 5

I have a friend who was bitten by one, and he said the pain was worse to him than being shot during WWII. They didn't give him pain medicine in the ER until they figured out what was wrong 4 hours later.

Answer 6

oh' dear black widow is the venomous spider in the world.i have no idea about the bites,venom is the primary concern.

Answer 7

Yes, it hurt. The pain is similiar to a chemical burn. Please, leave all spiders alone.

Answer 8

yes, it can kill you...