If possible, it's important to know what bit you, especially if it's an insect. For instance, if you're camping and you find a tick on you, you should tape it to an index card with the date and region written on it so that if the bite worsens the doctors can identify what dangers that bite poses.
If a snake bites you, be sure you grab that snake so it can be identified as well. Put it in a small box or basket so it can't escape. To make it easier to catch, you can play an instrument such as a flute while sitting a safe distance away.
I got bitten by a big huntsman spider that was hiding in my shoe once (I'm Australian) and now I always bash the crap out of my shoes before I wear them.
I'm more worried about these European and Japanese hornets. They're huge (even the European ones) and I've put my shoe on before only to have them buzzing mad. Luckily I wasn't stung that time. Their stings are excruciating and I liken them to feeling like you've been shot. They even have put people in the hospital and have killed some people. It's even worse for my family as my Mom is allergic and I'm getting more and more sensitive to stings myself. Last time I was stung by a bee it swelled a half dollar size region about a half inch raised. She has to use an epi and even then only has about a half hour to get to the ER so she doesn't die from asphyxiation or her heart issues.
My late Papillon was bitten on her back by what the vets think was a Brown Recluse. She used to spend much of her time under guest room bed. We had no idea she’d been bitten until I was petting her and her fur came away in my hand revealing a frothy green mess. We rushed her to the Vet ER. They cleaned and shaved the area and revealed a huge infected area the diameter of a softball. There were no visible bite marks. But her skin became necrotic and turned black. It eventually healed underneath and the thick dead layer slowly peeled away. Her fur even eventually grew back. Mercifully she was otherwise ok. She was a miracle dog. She suffered two strokes, that bite, pneumonia that required her being in an oxygen tent, and congestive heart disease - given mere months to live, she lived two more years! She eventually died in her sleep in bed with me and my husband due to that heart failure. Her name happens to have been Gigi. I miss her dearly.
You were wonderful, wonderful pet parents to take care of Gigi through all her maladies and illnesses. And let's give a shoutout to your Vet as well. I hope you will keep adopting. There are many dogs who could use parents like you and your husband!
Last time i put on a pair of socks i threw up my internal organs and presented to the emergency room unconscious. I’m really proud of you Chubby Emu, for showing the dangers of wearing socks.
the scariest part of this is the fact that GG felt something in his sock, and didn't take 2 seconds to take off the sock and remove "the rock" that he thought was in there
Obviously squishing the spider enough made it seem non existent after enough steps. If it was actually a rock he wouldn't have been able to avoid the annoyance but since it was a spider it was crushed and you wouldn't feel it after a bite or 2 .AKA spider not as hard as a rock
a friend of mine got bitten by a brown recluse while in Italy, and bc they definitely don’t have that species there, it was determined that it traveled in someone’s luggage she was staying with. They had to facetime a doctor here in the US to diagnose it bc the italian doctors had no clue.
We don't have very dangerous insects here, but it's rather common to shake garden boots and gloves before wearing them, and be cautious when putting your hands in garden furniture and such
Maybe it was a red recluse. They inhabit Mediterranean climate and they can inflict venom too. All of brown recluse sightings in europe are in fact red recluse...
@@Aquascape_Dreaming Thats technically incorrect, as spiders in the family Uloboridae and the genus Holarchaea lack venom. But yeah, every other spider is venomous, which is still the VAST majority of spiders.
To be really technical about it we have two _genera_ of venomous spiders in the continental US. As the map showed, we don't have any Loxosceles reclusa in Flagstaff but we have plenty of a related and more venomous species. Loxosceles arizonica. Our dog was bitten by one as was a neighbor down the block.
@Death Omen plus who tf doesnt check what is in their sock when they think its a rock? i would have immediately taken the sock off and turned it inside out to get whatever it is out and i live where there is no dangerous spiders or bugs. maybe he was young and didnt know, but then its on the parents for not warning him
not so easy i got bitten by a spider in my pyjamas in asia, i looked high and low to find the body. I presume it ran off. it itched for quite about 5 months and was mildly sore for about 3. bite was left side of right knee so i suppose not much drainage going on
I actually got laughed out of a hospital for a spider bite once. I was letting my dog in before heading to night shift and felt a tinge, I looked down at my quads and there were two recently made lesions within close proximity of each other. I went to work regardless, I've survived worse on the job like being run over by a truck and having a gun put to my head over a pizza. But, as the night dragged onwards I felt things, like shocks around the area and by 3:30 am, I had shocks all the way from my thighs to the tip of that toe and I went to the hospital. The doc examined it, I explained what happened, he said to give him a few minutes and we'll discuss treatment options. After 10 minutes the doc hadn't come back in and so I peeked outside and heard the docs uproariously laughing and they said "Who the fuck comes in with a spider bite?" then, I knew for sure they were laughing at me. One said something along the lines of "Between option a) Polysporin, and option b) a cold compress, this guy chose option z) emergency room!" So, humiliated, I walked out and the medical team were still laughing at me as I sauntered away. I consulted Dr. Google, Tylenol, Polysporin and cold compresses worked and a few days later I was all good. That experience still sticks with me though as a clear cut example of unprofessional doctors.
Thats ridiculous, as someone in the medical field, I will say a lot of us forget that things that may seem basic to us are not so basic to the general public but even so, that still should’ve never happened.
Fun fact: In WWII black widow silk was collected by hand and used as the crosshairs in the gunsights for the US military. It’s so strong and durable but 1/5 the with of a human hair, it’s electric but also uniform in width and can withstand extreme temperatures making the tedious process of collecting the silk well worth the effort. Life magazine published an article crediting the spiders with their war effort August 30th 1943.
@DarkFae888 horses, dogs, and carrier pigeons also did not have a choice in contributing in the war, but its nice to acknowledge and honor their contributions anyways
Years working pest control, I only got bit by a spider a few times. Recluses and black widows are both defensive and will try to flee if at all possible and will not bite unless they feel they can't escape (such as being trapped in a glove, sock, boot, etc.) As the doctor said, the bites generally don't amount to anything other than discomfort. Black widow bites hurt (I've been bitten exactly once) but as far as I'm aware are not threatening except to the infirm and those that have an allergic reaction. I think the last recorded fatality in the US was like 1984 or something? Black widows are actually super docile. You can handle them much like you would a tarantula or other spiders that are known to be pretty chill, and as long as you don't make them feel trapped, it's very unlikely they'll bite. Though I wouldn't just go out and grab one in the wild just for shits and giggles. Brown recluses tend to prefer basements, cardboard piles, the undersides of unused furniture, that sort of thing. They like to hide. They will weave very erratic, messy looking webs but mostly roam around. You are unlikely to find them in your home if you keep it clean. Remember to check crawlspaces and attics periodically (or contract a pest control outfit to do it for you.) If you have a clean home and are finding recluses in your closets or wherever, they're probably crawling in from the attic or in-between spaces through HVAC vents. Black widows... kind of prefer much the same areas. Closed off, not too much activity. They weave webs that tend to look a bit messy. They're known for having tougher than usual silk. Blue mud daubers are a primary predator of black widows; if you see a lot of blue mud daubers around, you probably have black widows around. But given how common they are, it's not unusual to find them. Keep in mind there are many copycat species that look similar but are not these two spiders. Trying to look like a dangerous critter is very common in nature as a survival strategy. The primary way of discerning an actual brown recluse is the eye arrangement - as the doctor showed, brown recluses have three pairs of eyes. Copycat species will have a different eye arrangement. In general, if you're seeing more than the occasional spider in your home (of any species), then you probably need to clean up and root out whatever flies, roaches, or other critters those spiders are hunting. If there's no prey to be found, the spiders won't be there (or at least won't be visible, there's always critters in your walls and in-between spaces.)
I have black widows all around my property, and I generally just let them be. They do occasionally set up shop around my pool pump though, so a couple times a year I have to grab a piece of paper or cardboard and move them somewhere more ideal. I'd much rather deal with the spiders than the palmetto bugs, flies, mosquitoes and other pests.
I grew up in Oklahoma. Prime brown recluse real estate area. When I was in jr high, my mom got bit by one. She was just getting something out of her closet when it bit her. (Being messy or clean doesn't really matter. Those things will hide out in closets, drawers, chests, hanging bathroom towels, and pretty much anywhere else that's dark and mostly undisturbed.) When we took her to the hospital, we were able to bring the spider with us. The doctors were really excited because they had never had the opportunity to study one up close and personal before. They even asked if they could keep it so they could show it to all the other doctors. So, apparently my mom provided our hospital with valuable teaching material that evening.
Exactly, being messy or neat has nothing to do with it. My mom’s rule is always shake out shoes & clothes before putting them on, & never go in the basement barefoot.
It's misleading to think it was about a messy room. It's more to do with whether the house has any entry points for spiders, and if there are many spiders in that area. Homes near any wooded areas or a home with a garden that can host a lot of spiders and is in an area for such spiders, will obviously be at greater risk of people coming into contact with them. You could have a super messy and cluttered room in some NYC tall apartment, on the 10th floor, and you'll probably never spot a spider.
@@nachtegaelw5389 Absolutely! I lived in a heavily wooded neighborhood, so it seemed like we had tons of those things. It got to the point where I had to check EVERYTHING before doing ANYTHING. Not just check the sheets before bed, but even make sure all the pillows had been checked on both sides, check the towels AND shower curtain before taking a shower, shake out EVERY piece of clothing before putting it on... it even got to the point where I was checking sandals and flip flops before slipping those on!
@Chloe KM As an added bonus, our house also had a creek just behind it. Never saw any rattlesnakes or copperheads, though they were known to be common in our area. But, I did see several cottonmouths over the years, with one almost getting into our house. I can honestly say that I do not miss living there at all.
Watching as an Australian, the fact that there isn't an antivenmon for one of the two venomous spiders in your whole country seems insane to me! With tens of venemous spiders in Australia, including the Sydney Funnel Web which is the 2nd most venmous, we have programs dedicated to harvesting their venom to create antivenom for human use.
That's because our venomous spiders are about as likely to bite you as a gaming addict living in their mom's basement is to get a job. Only when death is REALLY imminent. It seems your spiders are more go getters.
There are only 2 medically significant spiders in Australia. Redbacks and funnelwebs. There’s no antivenin for recluse because it isn’t really necessary, it doesn’t kill people
I’m glad that he show ACTUAL brown recluse spiders in this episode. I’ve watched things on tv where they talked about brown recluse and they show wolf spiders or even cellar spiders instead. My house is full of brown recluse spiders. I used to see them on a daily basis. Once I found 8 in one night. I started setting glue traps and now o Lu see them once or twice a week. I have been bitten once but like he said, bites rarely get serious. I had a pea sized whitehead surrounded by a buckle sized dark purple ring. It was there about a week and a half then went away. Besides some pain, I had no other symptoms.
That story of catching 2600 brown recluses reminded me of my own home at one point. I had a leak under my house one time and called a plumber. He crawled under there and came out and said it was fixable, but only AFTER I got pest control out. Said the leak created a large pool of standing water, like 8'x4' and it was breeding tons of flies and mosquitos...which in turn attracted TONS of spiders. Then he showed me pictures he took of the ceiling of the crawlspace. It was like clouds the webs were so thick. There were literally THOUSANDS of spiders, including many, many clusters of black widows--which are usually solitary, but I guess food was so plentiful they were tolerating one another. He said I probably had several hundred black and brown widows alone, with recluses farther out. And an unusually high number of scorpions and probably centipedes although he didn't see any. He had close-up pictures of multiple webs, each with dozens of identifiable widows living within inches of one another. All like 6 inches under my feet. It was eerie wondering how long until a bunch came crawling up through cracks in the floors or something.
My dad got bit by a brown recluse and the redness and swelling of the bite managed to spread all the way up his arm, so much so that he needed shots. That only made me fear spiders more. This was in Illinois by the way.
Brown Recluse and Hobo Spiders are similar looking and are both found throughout Illinois. Their bodies, not counting their legs, are almost the size of a dime.
*Jordan Peterson impression* ahem. You need to clean your room man, not only will it make you a better person but it'll prevent weird spiders from crawling in your sock and pants. LOBSTERS!!
I don’t really clean my room, but I don’t throw my clothes everywhere. If they’re dirty, I throw them in the hamper. I'm not sure how much I'd have to worry about finding a spider where I live, though.
@@TheGirlInFandomWorld Dont know where the hell you got that from lmao but none of our spiders eat birds. We're all taught animal awareness/safety basically as soon as we can walk. Its one of the reasons why dying from venomous animals in Australia is extremely rare
Lol. About the only sensible thing that he had done, i mean "Oh there's a rock in my sock that i just put on, lets just keep it on and walk differently" like what?
My husband was bitten by a brown recluse, on the back of his leg about mid thigh. It started out small, about the diameter of a quarter. By early afternoon it was about the diameter of a tennis ball. I told him, that's it we're going to the ER. The doctor said, yup, that's a brown recluse bite. They gave him antihistimines, antibiotics, and a 7 day course of steroids. He recovered fine. I think the reaction people get from the doctors depends on where they are. We live in the "brown recluse zone" shown on the map in this video, so the doctors here are very aware.
I absolutely love chubbyemu's videos but as a hypochondriac they are doing terrible things for my anxiety. I'll feel the slightest pang or other normal bodily sensation and then contrive this grandiose and irrational scenario that concludes with me experiencing organ failure or some shit.
friendly reminder to rationalize about how rare these scenarios are, that always helps me. out of 8 billion people, there's a 1 in 8 billion chance this will be you.
Good job on the patient for bringing the sock with him to help ID the spider, and for giving a clear, chronological history of events. I know it's not always possible when presenting to the emergency room, as it's often not by choice, but it helps care providers a LOT. If it's safe to bring the bug (or a picture of it,) the pill bottle, the thing you got cut on, etc., bring it as it could save tonnes of vital time. (Not a doctor or nurse, just chronically ill and nerdy.)
I do appreciate the disclaimer about spiders. I handle them often (wild and pets) and the only bite I've ever had was one stuck under a blanket. They're really shy and only bite if they feel trapped and can't run.
I have a habbit of throwing my long johns on the floor and this spring I have had three spider bites so far, we don't have dangerous species around here but it can sting and itch like a mother fucker and the site becomes necrotic.
For the record, for anyone who's nervous of spiders... I'm a spider keeper, and I can say with confidence I would have no fear or concern in handling EITHER a Loxosceles sp or a Latrodectus sp (Black Widow)... they just aren't likely to bite, and even if they do, it requires them to be pressed against the skin (such as the case that is listed here) for the fangs to actually penetrate and envenomate more than just the first thin layer of skin. They're both very small species of spiders with equally small fangs! Big props to Chubbyemu for the disclaimer, for pointing out you shouldn't kill spiders, and for discussing how often cases are misdiagnosed as spider bites!
Handling is much safer than unknowingly pressing one against the skin, as clothes do. One of my brothers was bitten on the knee by a Black Widow; a coworker was bitten by one but wouldn't say where. Both reported "flu-like" symptoms for three days. Our German Shepard was bitten by a Loxosceles arizonica, resulting in the classic 2 1/2 by 3 inch necrotic ulcer. Handling is safe enough, but living among them and obliviously crowding them is not.
We had a couple orb weavers sitting outside our backdoor last year (I don't think they survived the winter unfortunately). My mom, who has pretty severe arachnophobia, wanted me to deal with them. I, on the other hand, do not have arachnophobia (unless they're on me...just, please, stay off of my skin, and I will leave you alone), and I also knew how damn good these things are at keeping other pests like moths, mosquitos, and what not from invading your home. The best in natural pesticide. So, I had to insist that we just leave them be, despite how ugly they looked, because getting rid of them would likely do more harm then good.
Here in Australia things are very different. Spider bites can indeed kill you and I heard a Peppa Pig episode where she explained to her brother that spiders can't hurt you was not allowed to be screened here in case children believed this and were harmed.
So like everyone in the comments with spider stories, I'm Australian. When visiting my sister once in VIC and still living out of a suitcase on the floor I had a run in with a white tail spider. White tail spiders are venemous and can cause necrosis, can be lethal in children and animals as well but mostly it just hurts. These big spiders particularly love clothes/floordrobes and are hard to spot in a rush. A package was being delivered while I was still asleep (night shift) so first I had to scramble to find clothes so I wasn't looking like a human trashbag still in pyjammas at 1pm. Found shorts, got ready, spider.. fell out of shorts. Terrifying considering where I could've been bitten I began to panic and didn't see the spider (also probably panicked) rush up onto my 2kg chihuahua who, with 0 survival instincts, blinked at me with one eye and then the other. Having confirmed Bilbo has no brain between his eyes, I quickly went swiping through his thick floof which protected his tiny neck. I was finally bitten on the hand but managed to escape the room and rush outside holding a chihuahua and wearing no pants while quickly hiding behind the poor delivery dude. The delivery guy was so nice and actually got the spider onto his clipboard because it had only fallen off my hand near the doorway. A very chaotic situation followed by my hand actually being checked by a vet because I was so panicked it was on Bilbo that I didn't think about my bite until the vet had helped check the door who turned out to just be anxious but bite free! Pick up your clothes, unpack your suitcases, shake out your clothes if they fall on the floor and if you leave shoes outside you should always stomp on the ends and shake them out as this is a common way to be bitten. Also if you are bitten by a spider or snake or anything then go see a nurse at your doctors office or go to ER if you notice anything unusual. If it's summer or it's a common situation where something may be a spider bite i.e pain in foot while getting ready, check. If a pet is acting strange and you aren't sure why, check, call a vet and if you notice a bite or anything strange then go straight away whether you see a spider or not. In this case I saw the spider and would've taken him immediately but it easily could've been fatal and without knowing why he would've been acting strangely it most likely would have and been too late.
with the surprising amount of "made A, recovery" cases I've heard, I'm so relieved to hear that he had made a full recovery:) very interesting and informative episode as always, thank you
When I lived in Texas I was taught from Day 1 to tap my shoes upside down against the wall a few times before putting them on to be sure there were no spiders inside the toes. Also taught never to put your hand into a dark cupboard that you couldn't see into. Solid advice.
A not uncommon practice in Aus either, always been told to not leave your shoes outside but if you do, give them a good couple of taps against the wall.
We were taught this as well, not only spiders, but scorpions as well. More than once a critter has tumbled out, and that's enough for me to keep up the practice :) Stay safe y'all!
I live in the Ozarks, and brown recluse are *everywhere.* Never got into an unpleasant interaction with one yet, fortunately. I sweep them out of the house, and let the larger huntsman and wolf spiders stay (within reason). They've outcompeted the black widows and brown recluse (the two venomous US spiders; we've got both here), and along with clearing out the nonmoving water near our stream to eliminate mosquitoes they never show up in the house anymore.
A guy I worked with came in one day showing all of us the bite he got that weekend. After he described the spider, thinking it was funny, my other coworker and i said dude go to the doctor, that was a brown recluse. He shrugged it off saying it was fine(it looked gnarly af) but two days later suddenly he was mia and when he finally came back after a weekish, yep, it was indeed a brown recluse bite and he was in the hospital.
True story. I used to live in a cabin in the Kisatchie Natl Forest. There were tons of little brown spiders all over. I would play with them and even have them sit on my arm. One day my friend came over and said, 'you know those are brown recluse spiders, righttttt?' No, I didn't know. And after living there 3 years I never got bit once.
@@danieldavis3035 Oh, so it will only happen if you're actively murdering one of them with your ginormous feet? I guess that's good news to many of us paranoic people 😅
The fact that their venom is heat sensitive may be why my sister’s brown recluse bite on her inner thigh got so advanced. The freaking thing had climbed up her pantyhose while she was doing some quick yard work and likely got semi squished when she started walking, thus triggering the bite. It took a couple months to heal and looked like an open staph infection. Very yikes all around. And yes, we live in Kansas not even 20 minutes from that case study on the 100 year old home with 2,600 captured.
Years ago I was bitten by a spider on my chest area and my skin looked like it had fallen off. Absolutely horrible experience. Hope your sister is okay.
As a spider enthusiast, I found this video very informative. Indeed, there are only two medically significant spider species in the United States, the Brown Recluse and the Black Widow. Spiders use up a lot of energy, so they don't go out of their way to bite people. However, if a spider feels trapped and like there are no other options, it has the potential to bite, like any other wild animal. So don't squish them, but give the little dudes some space. I also feel a little called out, my room is a complete mess. Lol.
One time I watched an episode of a show called I'm Alive (Season 1, Episode 1), and they detailed everything that happened to this kid's body after a black widow bit him. It was terrifying. The boy was in such incredible pain from head to toe that the doctors had to induce a coma; prior to that, he wouldn't stop screaming. The antivenom available in the US sucks, so the father had about a week to procure the most effective antivenom from Mexico. He just barely made it, but had he failed, the venom would have permanently damaged his son's nervous system.
I had a black widow bite me as a pool guy i walked through a ukept yard i got bit on bottom thigh i had a hole for a year where the flesh died every time i got out a vehicle the hole would rub and hurt . I had mild pain about 3 hours after the bite and soreness all over my body but it went away
I thought I had gotten over my arachnophobia a while ago, but this one creeped me out a little. It’s a good thing I don’t live an area with brown recluse spiders because I always leave my socks on the floor 😂
as an entomology enthusiast: bringing the perpetrator of the bite with you is PARAMOUNT! bites cannot be distinguished by the bite alone. doctors are also not trained in entomology, so do them a favor and bring the biter with or at least try to grab a picture
@@heliveruscalion9124 what if the perpetrator is your dad? He finally comes back from the store with the milk he promised after 20years of absence and then he bites you.
In chile, where Loxoceles laeta lives essentially on every home, doctors ARE trained to recognize both the bite and the spider itself. and tbf half the population can recognize the spider at a glance. spidey is scary asf. source: am doctor.
@@airye i love that. Im just speaking from my north american experience where some people claim a Loxoceles reclusa bite even when they are way outside the range 😆
Eh, the amount of mess they showed in the video seems abnormal, like depression or adhd or the like kind of abnormal, I say as an autist with ADHD and lifelong "higher functioning" depression. That amount of mess where clean and dirty intermingle so much is super abnormal with neurotypical kids that age. It's like how healthy humans don't find it a acceptable to shit where they eat, but some people who are incredibly incredibly depressed basically live in a single room of their apartment/house where they eat delivery food and poop in trash bags and live in a pile of dirty clothes and various trash and bugs because their depression messed them up too much.
That part baffled me. Like, dude, you aren't at least curious to see what that thing that feels like a rock in your sock is? Change your socks already! lol!
As someone who cannot stand bugs, I love spiders. I always play with them and let them crawl over my hands, then I'll always let em go without hurting them. Spiders do so much good for us that they're never given credit for.
This same exact thing happened to me when I was a teen. Recluse spider in my sock, necrotic legion on my ankle. I ended up getting a rash all over too, but thankfully I didn't have a particularly severe reaction like the one in the video. I was just extremely miserable. To this day I check my socks even though recluse spiders are unlikely where I live now. Just some weird paranoia.
my great grandma grew up in central mexico and had the same kind of paranoia with scorpions and spiders in her shoes though a snake did somehow end up in a truck she was in while trying to cross the border (frequent occurance around here) so maybe it was more justified
I got bit by one on the arm a long time back. Was playing games at my computer and it crawled out from under the computer and bit my forearm. Ended up having to go have the bit cut open and drained. After they drained and cleaned out the bite area, it took about 3 to 4 weeks for the area to fully heal.
Was staying in Australia with my aunt when i was a kid, found a funnel web spider inside my shoe pretty early on. Taught me to knock my shoes on the ground to check if there's anything in there real quick.
I learned to always leave my clothes inside out when in areas where spiders, or other critters are possible - guess that's anywhere. I learned this in the military from when we would go out in the field. Obviously it doesn't prevent critters from getting on to your clothes, but it gives you an immediate, clear view of the part of your clothes that will be against your skin, and forces you to examine your clothes before putting them on. Without doing this, it's more likely that someone will get up and mindlessly throw their clothes on without taking much caution. Always shake out your boots, or shoes before putting them on. I am so super paranoid about critters being in, or ony clothes. I am just as paranoid about them being in my bed!
In san bernadino i almost stepped on a scorpion heading out of the camp house it was chilling next to my boots my buddy grabbed my leg . Complacency kills
Fact: it's likely that almost all cases of necrosis linked to a brown recluse could be a MRSA infection from any puncture. This is a rare case, we just tend to blame spiders for everything.
Thank you for being clear about how rare these complications are for recluse/ widow bites. They have a very unfair reputation. I was nervous when I saw the thumbnail but I ended up learning a lot! Like some other people in the comments have mentioned, spiders are extremely reluctant to bite and they typically need to be put in a position where retreat is impossible for them to be provoked into biting. I keep spiders and tarantulas as pets and have never been bitten because they are all given space in their enclosures to hide when I need to open the enclosure for maintenance. They really are special little animals
Thanks for this! I'm a tarantula owner too and I only been bitten once, which was my fault. Luckily I had no major reaction besides some slight swelling and itchiness. They rarely ever bite and if they do, as you said it's because they are put into some situation where they feel the need too in order to defend themselves. They are definitely wonderful creatures!
When they are symptomatic the Loxosceles bites can be horrific. One left a 2 1/2 x 3 inch necrotic ulcer on our poor German Shepard's rump; it mostly healed in two months. Do not underestimate the risk. We presume the spider was on the wall the dog leaned against to go to sleep.
Also make sure they know to keep a close eye on any and all insect bites. Even if they weren't from anything venemous they can still introduce nasty bacteria!
Just a note: Not cleaning your room like that can also be a result of depression, or a breakdown of executive function. If your kid's room is a mess, especially if it they're usually neater, don't just assume laziness.
Or it's just how I wanna live my LIFE, mom!!! (But seriously, sometimes people are just cluttered, and that's fine, too. I'm a very messy person, always have been, as long as it's not a danger to your health and safety like hoarding-levels of clutter, then who cares?)
@@annacostello5181 a lot of ADHD people have executive dysfunction issues that can make cleaning your own room literal hell. Cleaning up your room alone can begin with you folding clothes and ending up buying more paperclips while Never having finished folding clothes. Exacutive dysfunction often appears as the inability to start a task at hand. The famous blank page problem for writers for for daily life with adhd
Some corrections needed regarding spider species and ranges, which I feel are critical info: 1) The black widow isn't just one species, and they aren't the only venomous Latrodectus in the US. We've got at least five native Latrodectus species that I know of, and the family is best referred to as "widow spiders" or Latrodectus. 2) We've got other Loxosceles spiders along the southern border states, which are recluses that are brown, but not *the* brown recluse. 3) Thanks to human and cargo transportation, populations of any spider can exist outside of their generally accepted range. Don't trust a red line on a map to inform you whether the scary lesion on your foot is a brown recluse bite or not. If in doubt, get it looked at by a medical professional, regardless of where in the country you are. 4) BONUS ROUND: Invasive species! We've got all sorts of spiders from other continents that are brought by international shipping. Fortunately the venomous ones generally resemble our native species, but it's still very inaccurate to say that "only two species of venomous spiders are found in the United States".
I'm hoping one day we'll get something like "a man expressed a brief doubt about whether he'd locked his front door, this is what happened to his grandmother's intestines" or "a small child drew a picture of a happy sun, this is how his brain necrosed." Either way, interesting viewing as always!
@@PG-wz7by there are a lot of cases of artists being poisoned by chronic exposure to toxins. Non-exhaustive list, but resin, some paints, most things that produce particulate that can become suspended in air, and even seashells have been known to severely disable artists- lead, fumes, mercury, dust laced with toxic stains and paints, etc are all known hazards of more intensive forms of art. I'd be VERY interested in a series on chronic toxin exposure in art supplies and jobsites like construction sites.
I locked myself out of my apt one evening. When I sat down on the deck to wait for my neighbor I put my leg down on a brown recluse and it bit me. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life. Fortunately I was able to take the spider to the hospital with me and they verified it was a brown recluse. I ended up having a systemic reaction. The venom from the bite caused my kidneys, which have already been damaged due to Lupus, to shut down. I already had hypokalemia and the bite exacerbated it causing me to go into cardiac arrest. The area of the bite became necrotic and I developed an ulcer the size of a baseball. I was actually in the hospital for several weeks. I now have a golf ball sized "crater" in my leg but it has at least healed. Even today, 10yrs later, everytime I think about it, it amazes me how the venom from such a small spider could cause so many health complications.
The doctor could have made a video of your case just as easily. Only he couldn't blame you for a messy room. I had a patient in the hospital who had to have his calf amputated due to a bite there.
@@cellgrrlDefinitely couldn't blame me for a mess! Memory and organization on the other hand is a different story! I have had some scary experiences related to my health issues but I don't think I will ever experience something as painful and scary. I feel so bad for your patient. That would have been an awful experience for them. Drs told me that I had been very close to an amputation. Hearing that shook me a little. I gave the drs permission to use my case as a teaching tool. Hopefully my experience can benefit others
I have lupus too that has given me kidney damage, and I was thinking how if I ever got bit like this it would be my absolute worse nightmare. Glad to hear you are all healed up now. Were your kidneys able to recover any of the function initially lost to the bite at all?
As a person with severe arachnophobia, this was EXTREMELY hard for me to watch. But, I just sucked it up (and covered the screen when spiders came on) and watched it.
I've made it to the middle of the video thus far. Averting my eyes whenever a spider comes on-screen. It's still giving me the shivers. I congratulate you friend, for even though we are strangers perhaps seperated by an ocean, we are bound by our irrational fear of eight-legged creepy crawlies and I understand how hard it is to forcibly expose yourself to them, even if it's only virtual imagery/spider-reminiscent stimuli.
Here's the thing. What most people don't know (including many doctors) is that Brown Recluse bites, and even Black Widow bites are almost never deadly, or even a reason to go to the hospital. I'd highly recommend watching Jack’s World of Wildlife's videos, where he lets himself be bitten by both a Brown Recluse, and a Black Widow to prove that they are not as dangerous as people make them out to be (along with letting many popular stinging insects sting him). The reason you see those terrifying pictures of spider bites online of necrosing skin tissue is because of infections from not washing the bite area. It's almost never because of the actual bite itself. He's definitely a bit eccentric, and sometimes has a hard time staying focused, but I think it's part of the fun haha
This reminds of a story my dad told me about. When he was younger he would work summers at a flower shop; One year he was tasked with cleaning a-top the back delivery door (Which was very densely occupied by spiders. Being the teenage boy he was he thought to vacuum them up; Only afterwards to realize the spiders had all crawled out of the vacuum, finding safety within shoes/coats within the closet he stored it. I’m pretty sure this story sparked my arachnophobia…
@@asdfgoogle Can confirm that it is not the case. We vacuum up lady bugs every year by the thousands (atrocious smell, but there isn't easier way when they invade). They just happily crawl around inside (the ones that do survive) until they are put back outside.
@@asdfgoogle I think it depends on how strong your vacuum is and how strong the exoskeleton of the creature you're vacuuming is. I'm pretty sure I remember vacuuming up some spiders before and I think their abdomens exploded from the force.
Growing up in rural Texas I was taught to always pick up my shoes, turn them over and knock them together a few times before putting them on. Never had a venomous spider fall out, but it’s definitely saved a few scorpions from getting squashed.
@@idkwhatusertouse I’m much further south haha but yeah been up in Houston before and can’t say I’ve ever seen a scorpion there. A WHOLE bunch of roaches though. They where literally everywhere.
When you have a spider move in into your spot, make sure it's nice and comfy and can at least get SOMETHING when they're there. If not, they will move out. Sad times.
They also seem to like to crawl on me. And crawling on me means you will get crushed. I’m sorry but I don’t fear them, but they can annoy me and disgust me sometimes. They can be my buddies outside my house and off my body
I love that you encourage people to release spiders outside rather than killing them and not to be afraid of spiders just because of a video like this. It's very easy to have a scorched-earth reaction to spiders but they are just trying to live their life. There's no malice to their actions, so there's no reason for them to die.
But they will die, as they are not immortal. I think spiders are not sentient beings, so they are not aware of their of their own existence. So I don't see any moral implications of murdering them.... "There's no malice to their actions, so there's no reason for them to die." Nor is there any benevolence in their programmed-by-evolution behavior, so there is no particular reason for them not to die.
I do that with normal harmless house spiders, let them back outdoors. Although if it were a brown recluse or black widow I’m getting the sandal or hairspray with lighter and sending it back to hell!
A small yet important distinction: all spiders are venomous, all spiders need venom. The two spiders mentioned (brown recluse, and black widow) would be considered "medically significant", however most brown recluse bites are actually very mild, and they are very solitary and docile spiders, so they're not that prone to aggression anyway. Just don't kill spiders, they are very important critters to have around
I love spiders... this might be mean but if I find a spider web I'll find a cricket or something to throw in the web. Watch them do their thing. One time I caught a beetle. Like. The flying beetles. Big enough you wouldn't think the web would hold it but it did anddd he got that beetle. So fascinating
My 18 yr old son was bit by a brown recluse last December The bite was on his left forearm Doctors traced it with ink to see if it gets bigger or smaller By the next day his entire arm was red it went all the way up his shoulder to his neck and on his left side of his front chest He couldn’t breathe and was put on breathing machine His hospital stay was 3 wks On new year’s 2022 he sat at his hospital room window to watch the fireworks and I ordered him dominos He was starting to feel better I never could have imagine that a tiny spider bite could almost kill you Turns out the house next door was getting remodeled and it could of stirred spiders to come to our yard
I knew a girl I grew up with in Arkansas, grew up around plenty of recluse spiders. Anyways I knew this girl who got bit on her eyelid her whole eye was scarred she almost died. I’ve been watchful ever since then. It’s crazy what a tiny spider bite can do glad your son is okay!
They didn't give him antibiotics or anything first? That seems negligent and irresponsible. I was bit by one in my sleep when I was a kid, the doc gave me antibiotics and sent me home. It cleared up just fine, it was nothing but a itchy nuisance. I can't believe they just traced it 😡
I've gotten bit on the chest by one of these, it takes SOOOOO LONG for them to heal! It just eats away at your skin for awhile, then finally starts closing up. I'm in Kansas where they are literally EVERYWHERE, and I've lived in dorms with infestations of them. they are huge and not fun to deal with, but rarely will they kill you. probably a good idea to go to a doc though!
I grew up in central Kansas. Our neighbor got one in his underwear and his underwear was kept neatly in a drawer. The key is how long your clothing has been undisturbed. Spiders apparently like stuff that hasn't been messed with, so even neatly folded stuff in a drawer can be an issue if you haven't worn it for a while. We were taught the best defense was to simply turn your clothes inside out, shake them out, and then turn them rightside out again before wearing to knock out any lodgers they may have picked up.
Thank you for giving credibility and scientific evidence to this issue. I worked in the spider research community for over ten years and know Rick Vetter (first author of the paper cited in this video) and get questions about this all the time. Spiders really are more of our friends than enemies. In regards to Black widows, which hopefully will get covered more, they are very sessile animals and would only bite if directly threatened, like most spiders. Webs dwelling spiders hardly ever leave their webs and many hide in retreats within their webs. They are NOT coming for you.
Since you worked in the field, have you heard of anything to make them averse to climbing into things like socks? Are there things like plants, scents or lights that attract them to our homes? I know food and shelter is important to everyone but if there was something like mint oil to create a barrier so they stay put of our socks, that'd be helpful. I don't think any of us really want to hurt another living creature.
@@Lilnaomi3 Spiders really only look for one thing: Places to hide where they won't be disturbed. I don't personally know of a chemical repellant, but if you don't want them to be in a particular place make sure that place is frequently busy. Walk around (spiders can sense tremors very well, like footsteps), turn on the lights, move things around, talk loudly, that will make spiders want to pack up shop and move somewhere else where they're less likely to be found. Generally speaking, spiders will go where humans aren't because they really want nothing to do with us. The longer you leave a potential hiding spot alone, the likelier it is a spider might've moved in. But even so, spiders are massive cowards and will abandon their hiding spots in a heartbeat if they notice that it's becoming busy, they won't defend it or anything.
Black widows can be positively identified, and distinguished from other black spiders by the presence of a red, hourglass shaped spot. The easiest way to get bitten is to flip that spider over looking for the spot.
Australian here, though we have lots of venomous species of spiders, dangerous bites are still very rare. I remember looking into the brown recluse, as it seems the white-tailed spider in Australia may cause similar necrosis, I wonder if it's another enzyme like sphingomyelinase d. I had a family of white tailed spiders in my bed as a kid, was never bitten as far as I know. I recall reading (a long time ago) that there was some suspicion that in other (nonrelated species) bites, the necrosis and vasculitis is actually caused by bacteria introduced by the spiders fangs. I saw one of these bites (suspected) on a thumb in a rural hospital here. Was quite infected, the doctor obviously thought it was bacterial as it was im gentamycin immediately and then he was transferred to a larger facility to have his wound debrided and dressed. Lots of heat, lots of pain and swelling, pretty fast onset necrosis. Edit: After checking (wikipedia - *gasp*), it looks like white-tailed spiders' venom does not cause necrosis, and cases attributed to these bites were likely infections. Would be fascinating to collect and analyse spider venom.
@@thecolorjune Pretty much every spider on earth is venomous...most just don't have the volume of venom or the chemistry in their venom to be dangerous to humans.
A mate of mine was bit on the ass by a spider but didn't get to see what it was and ended up in hospital with a boil the size of a fist on his ass.. i couldn't help myself and had to send him the old song there was a red back on the toilet seat 🤣
As an avid spider enjoyer, I really appreciate the disclaimer. 🕷 There are a lot more than two venomous spiders in the US, in-fact almost all spiders have venom. Thing is, there’s very, very few that can seriously injure or kill humans. Bee/ant/wasps that sting also have venom that varies with species :D
@@kevinbayu7621 Yup. I have no other insects in my yard because several colonies of aggressive red ants have taken it over. I have to be careful while weeding because the suckers will bite and sting at the drop of a hat.
Love the little message about not killing spiders. Living in Australia my whole life, I tend to agree. Even with massive huntsmans, we always try to let it go if we can!
what if it decides to niche around your house and reproduce like crazy? I feel like it is potentially life threatening. Wish there was better way of disposing it.
A friend of my mom’s had a recluse bite which unfortunately caused her to permanently lose her hair. Glad to hear the kid is doing okay. I tend to worry over my young ones with this.
I met a little girl on vacation who had been bit by a brown recluse on the side of her face. She had a huge flesh eating wound that was in the process of healing. It was horrifying cause I had no idea spiders in Canada could do that. Her brother and her said it bit her while she was sleeping. She was about 6-8 years old.
Great video as always ! I'd like to add that most spiders are actually venomous. As you said, spiders need venom to neutralize and then eat insects, so many of the species of spiders in the US are venomous, meaning that they can produce venom but only a couple are medically significant. If that scares anyone just know that spiders are not aggressive and most of them can't even break skin if they ever try to bite you
Well yes all spiders are venemous but most species venom is so weak to humans that it’s largely ineffective against us unless it’s the recluse spider or black widow. And I’m talking species in the US
and most the time if spiders do manage to break skin, it’s just going to feel like a bee sting or mosquito bite- at least, that’s what i’ve heard. i’ve been playing with bugs since i was a child and to this day i still haven’t been bitten by a spider so i don’t even know what it’s like
@@LoveStruckLoner I've been bit by a jumping spider on my neck when I was a little boy. It did feel like a mosquito bite and left an itchy bump. It didn't last as long as a mosquito bite, but it sure scared the hell out of me. They're actually pretty cute for a spider though. I've had one in my garden kill a caterpillar! That little guy was chowing down on him.
GG has a point about losing things when his mom would clean...When I was his age (and even now to some extent) away from home and my car, I was a complete neat freak. At home, or in my car, everything looked wrecked. However I could tell you where every single thing was... until someone cleaned... My mother always went around in socks at home so I started leaving 4 sided D&D dice all over the floor in my room as caltrops to...discourage meddling.
Full recovery doesn't mean no permanent damage. His kidneys will likely fail earlier than they normally would when he gets old. Same thing for the liver for people who drink often.
This channel leads me to a healthy amount of caution. Every case is rare but it happened for real. Sometimes you'll be the rare case and that's why I love this channel. So I'm not that rare case Stay safe everyone
My home was infested with these a few years ago. I've been bitten a few times, worst bite I ever got led to a hole no bigger than a pencil eraser. They are incredibly non aggressive, they typically won't bite you even if you bother them. Their chelicerae aren't strong enough to penetrate human skin, applying pressure to the spider helps it make a full bite, this is why most bites occur when they are under clothes. Putting on a sock for example will squeeze the spider in between your skin and the sock, pressing it's chelicerae into your skin. About 9/10 bites don't lead to necrosis. Males leave very small bites, typically only females inject necrotoxin. A bite will feel like a mosquito bite surrounded by a sunburn. Worse bites you'll start to feel the neurotoxin, you'll feel pins and needles or a numbing sensation. Within hours of a bite you can tell how bad the wound will be. If you notice you've been bitten you should clean the bite and apply ice. You really only need to go to the doctor if you get an open wound too large for a bandaid to cover. To get rid of them you can fumigate, DO NOT SPRAY! Brown Recluses don't absorb the spray through their legs, you'll instead turn your home into a buffet of dead bugs for them to eat and you'll actually notice more spiders after spraying. Get rid of smaller bugs in your home and the spiders will go away.
Not so sure about the spraying. I've seen several dead BR's after spraying in our home each year. I do know that glue traps work pretty well. Lay them out near air ducts. Haven't seen a single one this season, but I'd normally spot 4 or 5 by now in previous years. Kinda weird.
Step 1: get bit untill you form an imunity to the bites Step 2: encourage and cultivate a yuge spider infestation Step 3: gg now you have a completly burglar proof home. If you want more fun, put a sacrificial altar to the spider god in the living room, scare the living crap out of any intruder lmao
Ooh yep, as an Aussie you've gotta watch out for spiders, haven't had them in socks before but they especially love living in shoes you leave outside, make sure you give your shoes a good shake if you leave them outside for a long period of time.
@@FatfighterXD1 slap the soles together 3 times then drop them on the ground. Then see if anything dazed and confused crawls out. This should also work for scorpions in Nevada...
I've had a huntsman spider climb up into my bed on top of the doona out at an eco retreat in Margaret River WA~*shivers*~ so yeah they sometimes come right for ya!
As a person with arachnophobia who throws her clothes on the floor I think this video has finally scared me into picking my clothes up (really hope this gets rid of my spider problem as I feel like there’s at least one in my apartment a week, just last week I got surprised by a spider creeping on me in the shower)
In my experience, empty boxes are more prone to spiders than clothes. Or you could just shove towels under your door, spiders cant get in that way. (I also have arachnophobia)
@commemorative7627 If it's a baby that could be even worse. One night I saw one baby spider on my windowsill and didn't really mind even though I don't like them. Next thing I know there's like 50 baby spiders pouring in through the blinds and trying to rappel down the wall and out towards my bed (which was right next to the window). I just got to smashing, I felt bad, but there was so many I couldn't let them come in so close to where I sleep. Edit: I completely misread your comment
True story, my father actually one morning woke up and saw our house cat playing with one of my mothers shoes. Staring at the shoe and circling around it my dad was like "what the heck is he doing". Lord behold when my dad went over there was a scorpion hiding inside and he quickly put it outside at the edge of the property.. Thank goodness both the cat and my dad were paying attention. It was hiding in her work shoes she puts on daily. It really is crazy thinking about it. Again this legit happened. scorpions weren't common in our home but we did come across maybe 5-6 over the 20+ years of being in that house? Anyway... just a reminder for yall to be careful
Well, Australia is a different beast, over there probably even the air is venomous and the food is poisonous, that's why you need lockdown for another 100 years.
I once put on socks. They were warm and fuzzy. "I'm feeling better already" I thought....but I was not feeling better. I had actually become intoxicated on a lava lamp that I chugged, and I had put my feet inside the toaster. Here's how my brain turned into 5 day old pasta.
@@TheNasaDude "If one silly comment got me some likes" I thought, "then if I make more silly comments, I will become liked. I feel more popular already" I thought. But I was, in fact, slowly vegetating in my own fluids, as I overdosed over and over, on LOLZ. I had developed "hyperlolzemia" ...
I'm very grateful for your disclaimer at the start, spiders already get a pretty bad rep despite 99.99% of them being harmless to humans, so it's nice to have that established first and foremost before talking about this topic!
Concerning socks: I was at high school with a kid called Brian. Hanging out with him at his home after school one day I heard his mother scold him: _”Brian! I wish you would stop blowing your nose on your socks!”_ 😂 Edit: and now you know the rest of the story!
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I have a pair of socks on should I be nervous?
"It's just a bug bite. I'll be fine" he thought.
@@mazzar9633 Me too!
If possible, it's important to know what bit you, especially if it's an insect. For instance, if you're camping and you find a tick on you, you should tape it to an index card with the date and region written on it so that if the bite worsens the doctors can identify what dangers that bite poses.
This is good information!
If a snake bites you, be sure you grab that snake so it can be identified as well. Put it in a small box or basket so it can't escape. To make it easier to catch, you can play an instrument such as a flute while sitting a safe distance away.
What if I don’t have tape, index card, or marker while I’m camping
I do this with mosquitoes too.
@@IronDragon1337 Use your pockets, duh.
This guy, GG, is famous. People talk about him in literally every game I play.
I mean I’ve only played with a couple of people who know who he is, but they seem to know instead about this guy named ‘ez’
damn. i only know L
And his friend "EZ".
Is this the git gud dude? I've heard of him. Very famous gamer.
Don't get bitten again, GG
"gg no re"
I got bitten by a big huntsman spider that was hiding in my shoe once (I'm Australian) and now I always bash the crap out of my shoes before I wear them.
What are you even doing here?
noot noot la crimosa when
SMB is Australian??
@@DaniSC_l1 Refer to their 'About' tab: "We're based in Brisbane, QLD, Australia,"
I'm more worried about these European and Japanese hornets. They're huge (even the European ones) and I've put my shoe on before only to have them buzzing mad. Luckily I wasn't stung that time. Their stings are excruciating and I liken them to feeling like you've been shot. They even have put people in the hospital and have killed some people. It's even worse for my family as my Mom is allergic and I'm getting more and more sensitive to stings myself. Last time I was stung by a bee it swelled a half dollar size region about a half inch raised. She has to use an epi and even then only has about a half hour to get to the ER so she doesn't die from asphyxiation or her heart issues.
LMAO
My late Papillon was bitten on her back by what the vets think was a Brown Recluse. She used to spend much of her time under guest room bed. We had no idea she’d been bitten until I was petting her and her fur came away in my hand revealing a frothy green mess. We rushed her to the Vet ER. They cleaned and shaved the area and revealed a huge infected area the diameter of a softball. There were no visible bite marks. But her skin became necrotic and turned black. It eventually healed underneath and the thick dead layer slowly peeled away. Her fur even eventually grew back. Mercifully she was otherwise ok.
She was a miracle dog. She suffered two strokes, that bite, pneumonia that required her being in an oxygen tent, and congestive heart disease - given mere months to live, she lived two more years! She eventually died in her sleep in bed with me and my husband due to that heart failure.
Her name happens to have been Gigi. I miss her dearly.
You were wonderful, wonderful pet parents to take care of Gigi through all her maladies and illnesses. And let's give a shoutout to your Vet as well. I hope you will keep adopting. There are many dogs who could use parents like you and your husband!
Sorry for your loss.
Reminds me my dog Homero,he was diagnosed with a heart desease but with treatment he lived 3 years more,he had many strokes ,but he always awake
She was so blessed to have such a loving family as you and your husband! Rest In Peace, GiGi ❤
Last time i put on a pair of socks i threw up my internal organs and presented to the emergency room unconscious. I’m really proud of you Chubby Emu, for showing the dangers of wearing socks.
Love your COMMENT, SO FUNNY THANKYOU. 😄😅🤣😂🏴🏴🏴🏴
Same
Srsly, whenever I feel that pinch or tickle inside a shoe, sock, or shirt, I rip it off like lightning.
If you or a loved one has suffered from putting socks on, you might be entitled to compensation.
organ donor speedrun
the scariest part of this is the fact that GG felt something in his sock, and didn't take 2 seconds to take off the sock and remove "the rock" that he thought was in there
That was what I was thinking! LOL, when did it become easier to limp around instead of pulling off the sock or shoe and check?
Well, he is the same person who couldn't care less about chaos on his room, doesn't surprise me.
Obviously squishing the spider enough made it seem non existent after enough steps. If it was actually a rock he wouldn't have been able to avoid the annoyance but since it was a spider it was crushed and you wouldn't feel it after a bite or 2 .AKA spider not as hard as a rock
Bending over to do that is haaaaaaaard 😂
the scariest part is that he called for an ambulance instead of uber.
a friend of mine got bitten by a brown recluse while in Italy, and bc they definitely don’t have that species there, it was determined that it traveled in someone’s luggage she was staying with. They had to facetime a doctor here in the US to diagnose it bc the italian doctors had no clue.
We don't have very dangerous insects here, but it's rather common to shake garden boots and gloves before wearing them, and be cautious when putting your hands in garden furniture and such
Maybe it was a red recluse. They inhabit Mediterranean climate and they can inflict venom too. All of brown recluse sightings in europe are in fact red recluse...
That spider is lucky. He got to ride on first class for free!
@@chinchepunta most but not all, perhaps.
While it's true that the brown recluse isn't native to Italy, the Mediterranean recluse is.
I knew teens dirty socks can be toxic but GG takes it to a new level.
"There are only 2 known venomous spiders in the continental US"
Interesting, in continental Australia they count the spiders that *aren't* venomous.
😂😂😂 not just spiders I hear…
Spoidas
All spiders are venomous. Every single one.
@@Aquascape_Dreaming Thats technically incorrect, as spiders in the family Uloboridae and the genus Holarchaea lack venom.
But yeah, every other spider is venomous, which is still the VAST majority of spiders.
To be really technical about it we have two _genera_ of venomous spiders in the continental US. As the map showed, we don't have any Loxosceles reclusa in Flagstaff but we have plenty of a related and more venomous species. Loxosceles arizonica. Our dog was bitten by one as was a neighbor down the block.
finally, a patient that actually tells the doctors whats going on (and brings the spider as well!)
At least one that retained his ability to speak after incident.
He is the most smartest I have seen till now.
@Death Omen plus who tf doesnt check what is in their sock when they think its a rock? i would have immediately taken the sock off and turned it inside out to get whatever it is out and i live where there is no dangerous spiders or bugs. maybe he was young and didnt know, but then its on the parents for not warning him
not so easy i got bitten by a spider in my pyjamas in asia, i looked high and low to find the body. I presume it ran off. it itched for quite about 5 months and was mildly sore for about 3. bite was left side of right knee so i suppose not much drainage going on
@Death Omen even if he did the googling and research necessary his parents might have ignored Him either way.
I actually got laughed out of a hospital for a spider bite once. I was letting my dog in before heading to night shift and felt a tinge, I looked down at my quads and there were two recently made lesions within close proximity of each other. I went to work regardless, I've survived worse on the job like being run over by a truck and having a gun put to my head over a pizza. But, as the night dragged onwards I felt things, like shocks around the area and by 3:30 am, I had shocks all the way from my thighs to the tip of that toe and I went to the hospital. The doc examined it, I explained what happened, he said to give him a few minutes and we'll discuss treatment options.
After 10 minutes the doc hadn't come back in and so I peeked outside and heard the docs uproariously laughing and they said "Who the fuck comes in with a spider bite?" then, I knew for sure they were laughing at me. One said something along the lines of "Between option a) Polysporin, and option b) a cold compress, this guy chose option z) emergency room!" So, humiliated, I walked out and the medical team were still laughing at me as I sauntered away. I consulted Dr. Google, Tylenol, Polysporin and cold compresses worked and a few days later I was all good. That experience still sticks with me though as a clear cut example of unprofessional doctors.
That was shitty of them >:(
Thats ridiculous, as someone in the medical field, I will say a lot of us forget that things that may seem basic to us are not so basic to the general public but even so, that still should’ve never happened.
My grandfather died from a spider bite.
Very unprofessional. Glad it was not severe as seen here in the video.
Should have sued.
Fun fact: In WWII black widow silk was collected by hand and used as the crosshairs in the gunsights for the US military. It’s so strong and durable but 1/5 the with of a human hair, it’s electric but also uniform in width and can withstand extreme temperatures making the tedious process of collecting the silk well worth the effort. Life magazine published an article crediting the spiders with their war effort August 30th 1943.
@DarkFae888 horses, dogs, and carrier pigeons also did not have a choice in contributing in the war, but its nice to acknowledge and honor their contributions anyways
What do you mean by "electric"? Do you mean conductive?
Fun fact, genetically splicing a spider and a goat creates a silk stronger than steel
Years working pest control, I only got bit by a spider a few times. Recluses and black widows are both defensive and will try to flee if at all possible and will not bite unless they feel they can't escape (such as being trapped in a glove, sock, boot, etc.) As the doctor said, the bites generally don't amount to anything other than discomfort. Black widow bites hurt (I've been bitten exactly once) but as far as I'm aware are not threatening except to the infirm and those that have an allergic reaction. I think the last recorded fatality in the US was like 1984 or something?
Black widows are actually super docile. You can handle them much like you would a tarantula or other spiders that are known to be pretty chill, and as long as you don't make them feel trapped, it's very unlikely they'll bite. Though I wouldn't just go out and grab one in the wild just for shits and giggles.
Brown recluses tend to prefer basements, cardboard piles, the undersides of unused furniture, that sort of thing. They like to hide. They will weave very erratic, messy looking webs but mostly roam around. You are unlikely to find them in your home if you keep it clean. Remember to check crawlspaces and attics periodically (or contract a pest control outfit to do it for you.) If you have a clean home and are finding recluses in your closets or wherever, they're probably crawling in from the attic or in-between spaces through HVAC vents.
Black widows... kind of prefer much the same areas. Closed off, not too much activity. They weave webs that tend to look a bit messy. They're known for having tougher than usual silk. Blue mud daubers are a primary predator of black widows; if you see a lot of blue mud daubers around, you probably have black widows around. But given how common they are, it's not unusual to find them.
Keep in mind there are many copycat species that look similar but are not these two spiders. Trying to look like a dangerous critter is very common in nature as a survival strategy. The primary way of discerning an actual brown recluse is the eye arrangement - as the doctor showed, brown recluses have three pairs of eyes. Copycat species will have a different eye arrangement.
In general, if you're seeing more than the occasional spider in your home (of any species), then you probably need to clean up and root out whatever flies, roaches, or other critters those spiders are hunting. If there's no prey to be found, the spiders won't be there (or at least won't be visible, there's always critters in your walls and in-between spaces.)
Wow, this was super informative. Thank you!
thank you very much, this is great😄
Thank you
I have black widows all around my property, and I generally just let them be. They do occasionally set up shop around my pool pump though, so a couple times a year I have to grab a piece of paper or cardboard and move them somewhere more ideal.
I'd much rather deal with the spiders than the palmetto bugs, flies, mosquitoes and other pests.
Thanks, I'm buying a flamethrower
I grew up in Oklahoma. Prime brown recluse real estate area. When I was in jr high, my mom got bit by one. She was just getting something out of her closet when it bit her. (Being messy or clean doesn't really matter. Those things will hide out in closets, drawers, chests, hanging bathroom towels, and pretty much anywhere else that's dark and mostly undisturbed.) When we took her to the hospital, we were able to bring the spider with us. The doctors were really excited because they had never had the opportunity to study one up close and personal before. They even asked if they could keep it so they could show it to all the other doctors. So, apparently my mom provided our hospital with valuable teaching material that evening.
"The doctors were excited"
I aspire to be this deranged one day
Exactly, being messy or neat has nothing to do with it. My mom’s rule is always shake out shoes & clothes before putting them on, & never go in the basement barefoot.
It's misleading to think it was about a messy room. It's more to do with whether the house has any entry points for spiders, and if there are many spiders in that area. Homes near any wooded areas or a home with a garden that can host a lot of spiders and is in an area for such spiders, will obviously be at greater risk of people coming into contact with them. You could have a super messy and cluttered room in some NYC tall apartment, on the 10th floor, and you'll probably never spot a spider.
@@nachtegaelw5389 Absolutely! I lived in a heavily wooded neighborhood, so it seemed like we had tons of those things. It got to the point where I had to check EVERYTHING before doing ANYTHING. Not just check the sheets before bed, but even make sure all the pillows had been checked on both sides, check the towels AND shower curtain before taking a shower, shake out EVERY piece of clothing before putting it on... it even got to the point where I was checking sandals and flip flops before slipping those on!
@Chloe KM As an added bonus, our house also had a creek just behind it. Never saw any rattlesnakes or copperheads, though they were known to be common in our area. But, I did see several cottonmouths over the years, with one almost getting into our house. I can honestly say that I do not miss living there at all.
Watching as an Australian, the fact that there isn't an antivenmon for one of the two venomous spiders in your whole country seems insane to me! With tens of venemous spiders in Australia, including the Sydney Funnel Web which is the 2nd most venmous, we have programs dedicated to harvesting their venom to create antivenom for human use.
That's because our venomous spiders are about as likely to bite you as a gaming addict living in their mom's basement is to get a job. Only when death is REALLY imminent.
It seems your spiders are more go getters.
Yeah been bitten by red back.
There are only 2 medically significant spiders in Australia. Redbacks and funnelwebs. There’s no antivenin for recluse because it isn’t really necessary, it doesn’t kill people
Because they dont need anti venom to treat recluse or widow bites
Were too busy shooting each other up to worry about antitoxins.
I’m glad that he show ACTUAL brown recluse spiders in this episode. I’ve watched things on tv where they talked about brown recluse and they show wolf spiders or even cellar spiders instead. My house is full of brown recluse spiders. I used to see them on a daily basis. Once I found 8 in one night. I started setting glue traps and now o Lu see them once or twice a week. I have been bitten once but like he said, bites rarely get serious. I had a pea sized whitehead surrounded by a buckle sized dark purple ring. It was there about a week and a half then went away. Besides some pain, I had no other symptoms.
Plus the brain damage, obviously
@@glowindark64 because I don’t have the money to buy a new house? Sure…
Your name is cleverly hilarious 😂 😂
@@WeBe3Dprinting I rebuke you in the name of jesus
@@glowindark64 Or they took too much 🅱️ethamphetamine.
I understand that cases like these are rare, but there’s always going to be that lingering paranoia in the back of our heads.
Especially after watching this video lol
yeah...
The only thing different from me and the guy in this case is the fact that I haven't been bitten 🤯.
a little? i *always* have paranoia. (and i have even more now that i know that i *live* in a place where these spiders live- HELP-)
I’ve been bitten and it’s fine. My moms allergic and she said it’s fine
That story of catching 2600 brown recluses reminded me of my own home at one point. I had a leak under my house one time and called a plumber. He crawled under there and came out and said it was fixable, but only AFTER I got pest control out. Said the leak created a large pool of standing water, like 8'x4' and it was breeding tons of flies and mosquitos...which in turn attracted TONS of spiders. Then he showed me pictures he took of the ceiling of the crawlspace. It was like clouds the webs were so thick. There were literally THOUSANDS of spiders, including many, many clusters of black widows--which are usually solitary, but I guess food was so plentiful they were tolerating one another. He said I probably had several hundred black and brown widows alone, with recluses farther out. And an unusually high number of scorpions and probably centipedes although he didn't see any. He had close-up pictures of multiple webs, each with dozens of identifiable widows living within inches of one another. All like 6 inches under my feet. It was eerie wondering how long until a bunch came crawling up through cracks in the floors or something.
I'm begging you tell me what happened next
gotta throw out the whole house im sorry
Really wish UA-cam allowed links to be posted. I’d love to see the photos of this crawl space.
Yepppp my brother has a bunch of black widows in his crawl space
I cannot imagine how bada** this guy was to stay down there and take pictures
Don't worry, you didn't scare me away from spiders, I was already afraid of them. Now I'm scared of socks
I fully rebuke you in the name of my Christ-God Jesusssss
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My dad got bit by a brown recluse and the redness and swelling of the bite managed to spread all the way up his arm, so much so that he needed shots. That only made me fear spiders more. This was in Illinois by the way.
Southern Illinois?
My aunt got bitten in my uncles basement in Illinois by a brown recluse and it was not pretty.
Brown Recluse and Hobo Spiders are similar looking and are both found throughout Illinois. Their bodies, not counting their legs, are almost the size of a dime.
In fort Benning we had a guy get bit on the back of the neck. He hit the ground instantly. Would have died without immediate medical intervention.
This is the best “clean you room” motivational video ever created. Parents everywhere thank you.
I sent this to my partner to get his shit together haha
Yes, he motiveted me for sure!
Except for when you live in a country with no venomous spiders that can cause this kind of issue, AND your kid knows it…
*Jordan Peterson impression* ahem. You need to clean your room man, not only will it make you a better person but it'll prevent weird spiders from crawling in your sock and pants. LOBSTERS!!
I don’t really clean my room, but I don’t throw my clothes everywhere. If they’re dirty, I throw them in the hamper. I'm not sure how much I'd have to worry about finding a spider where I live, though.
As an Australian, it blew my mind to learn that there are only two known breeds of venomous spiders in the US.
And it blows my mind that Australians are just used to living with so many venomous animals. And don't some of your spiders eat birds?
@@TheGirlInFandomWorld Dont know where the hell you got that from lmao but none of our spiders eat birds. We're all taught animal awareness/safety basically as soon as we can walk. Its one of the reasons why dying from venomous animals in Australia is extremely rare
@@cubriffic172 Those are cool facts to learn at 4 am. Thank you! 😊
@@TheGirlInFandomWorld No problem! Sorry if I came off as a bit rude/blunt haha 😊
@@TheGirlInFandomWorld you're referring to the goliath bird eating spider, and they live in South America
Kudos to the kid for actually bringing in the remains of the spider, probably saved the doctors a lot of time trying to figure this out
Lol. About the only sensible thing that he had done, i mean "Oh there's a rock in my sock that i just put on, lets just keep it on and walk differently" like what?
@@dontforgettobringatowel9106 Yeah I do that to but with my shoes as well lmao.
@@AlphaCarinae It is dumb but I do understand how it happens.
Altough I can see how someone might be reluctant to bring their crusty-ass old sock to the doctors, I guess the fact that it was an emergency helped
Thanks!
My husband was bitten by a brown recluse, on the back of his leg about mid thigh. It started out small, about the diameter of a quarter. By early afternoon it was about the diameter of a tennis ball. I told him, that's it we're going to the ER. The doctor said, yup, that's a brown recluse bite. They gave him antihistimines, antibiotics, and a 7 day course of steroids. He recovered fine.
I think the reaction people get from the doctors depends on where they are. We live in the "brown recluse zone" shown on the map in this video, so the doctors here are very aware.
I absolutely love chubbyemu's videos but as a hypochondriac they are doing terrible things for my anxiety. I'll feel the slightest pang or other normal bodily sensation and then contrive this grandiose and irrational scenario that concludes with me experiencing organ failure or some shit.
Lmaooooo, but for real I feel this on a personal level.
I can agree with this 🥲
Knowing I'm not the only is tremendously helpful 🙂
ON FUCKING GOD BRO
friendly reminder to rationalize about how rare these scenarios are, that always helps me. out of 8 billion people, there's
a 1 in 8 billion chance this will be you.
Good job on the patient for bringing the sock with him to help ID the spider, and for giving a clear, chronological history of events. I know it's not always possible when presenting to the emergency room, as it's often not by choice, but it helps care providers a LOT. If it's safe to bring the bug (or a picture of it,) the pill bottle, the thing you got cut on, etc., bring it as it could save tonnes of vital time. (Not a doctor or nurse, just chronically ill and nerdy.)
Absolutely good advice
I do appreciate the disclaimer about spiders. I handle them often (wild and pets) and the only bite I've ever had was one stuck under a blanket. They're really shy and only bite if they feel trapped and can't run.
I have a habbit of throwing my long johns on the floor and this spring I have had three spider bites so far, we don't have dangerous species around here but it can sting and itch like a mother fucker and the site becomes necrotic.
They can press * to return to the last checkpoint
Glad to see another spider enthusiast in the comments 😊❤
For the record, for anyone who's nervous of spiders... I'm a spider keeper, and I can say with confidence I would have no fear or concern in handling EITHER a Loxosceles sp or a Latrodectus sp (Black Widow)... they just aren't likely to bite, and even if they do, it requires them to be pressed against the skin (such as the case that is listed here) for the fangs to actually penetrate and envenomate more than just the first thin layer of skin. They're both very small species of spiders with equally small fangs! Big props to Chubbyemu for the disclaimer, for pointing out you shouldn't kill spiders, and for discussing how often cases are misdiagnosed as spider bites!
Handling is much safer than unknowingly pressing one against the skin, as clothes do. One of my brothers was bitten on the knee by a Black Widow; a coworker was bitten by one but wouldn't say where. Both reported "flu-like" symptoms for three days. Our German Shepard was bitten by a Loxosceles arizonica, resulting in the classic 2 1/2 by 3 inch necrotic ulcer. Handling is safe enough, but living among them and obliviously crowding them is not.
I was pleasantly surprised by the disclaimers.
We had a couple orb weavers sitting outside our backdoor last year (I don't think they survived the winter unfortunately). My mom, who has pretty severe arachnophobia, wanted me to deal with them. I, on the other hand, do not have arachnophobia (unless they're on me...just, please, stay off of my skin, and I will leave you alone), and I also knew how damn good these things are at keeping other pests like moths, mosquitos, and what not from invading your home. The best in natural pesticide. So, I had to insist that we just leave them be, despite how ugly they looked, because getting rid of them would likely do more harm then good.
Here in Australia things are very different. Spider bites can indeed kill you and I heard a Peppa Pig episode where she explained to her brother that spiders can't hurt you was not allowed to be screened here in case children believed this and were harmed.
im more than nervous of spidersr... i cant even watch this video
So like everyone in the comments with spider stories, I'm Australian. When visiting my sister once in VIC and still living out of a suitcase on the floor I had a run in with a white tail spider. White tail spiders are venemous and can cause necrosis, can be lethal in children and animals as well but mostly it just hurts. These big spiders particularly love clothes/floordrobes and are hard to spot in a rush. A package was being delivered while I was still asleep (night shift) so first I had to scramble to find clothes so I wasn't looking like a human trashbag still in pyjammas at 1pm. Found shorts, got ready, spider.. fell out of shorts. Terrifying considering where I could've been bitten I began to panic and didn't see the spider (also probably panicked) rush up onto my 2kg chihuahua who, with 0 survival instincts, blinked at me with one eye and then the other. Having confirmed Bilbo has no brain between his eyes, I quickly went swiping through his thick floof which protected his tiny neck. I was finally bitten on the hand but managed to escape the room and rush outside holding a chihuahua and wearing no pants while quickly hiding behind the poor delivery dude. The delivery guy was so nice and actually got the spider onto his clipboard because it had only fallen off my hand near the doorway.
A very chaotic situation followed by my hand actually being checked by a vet because I was so panicked it was on Bilbo that I didn't think about my bite until the vet had helped check the door who turned out to just be anxious but bite free!
Pick up your clothes, unpack your suitcases, shake out your clothes if they fall on the floor and if you leave shoes outside you should always stomp on the ends and shake them out as this is a common way to be bitten. Also if you are bitten by a spider or snake or anything then go see a nurse at your doctors office or go to ER if you notice anything unusual. If it's summer or it's a common situation where something may be a spider bite i.e pain in foot while getting ready, check. If a pet is acting strange and you aren't sure why, check, call a vet and if you notice a bite or anything strange then go straight away whether you see a spider or not.
In this case I saw the spider and would've taken him immediately but it easily could've been fatal and without knowing why he would've been acting strangely it most likely would have and been too late.
That great feeling you get when the person makes a full recovery is priceless. Thank you, chubbyemu.
with the surprising amount of "made A, recovery" cases I've heard, I'm so relieved to hear that he had made a full recovery:)
very interesting and informative episode as always, thank you
Especially considering the heavy "PERMANENT kidney damage" earlier, I wasn't expecting it
Spoiler alert 😆😆😆
@@Chocomint_Queen nooooo dammit spoilers!!
When I lived in Texas I was taught from Day 1 to tap my shoes upside down against the wall a few times before putting them on to be sure there were no spiders inside the toes. Also taught never to put your hand into a dark cupboard that you couldn't see into. Solid advice.
A not uncommon practice in Aus either, always been told to not leave your shoes outside but if you do, give them a good couple of taps against the wall.
We were taught this as well, not only spiders, but scorpions as well. More than once a critter has tumbled out, and that's enough for me to keep up the practice :) Stay safe y'all!
Luckily I live in a region that doesn't require me to worry about a 3-eyed, 8-legged bastard making my dunks his new crib.
yep my neighbour lost a finger to a viper that way, viper bites arent that common
I thought that was more for scorpions?
I live in the Ozarks, and brown recluse are *everywhere.* Never got into an unpleasant interaction with one yet, fortunately. I sweep them out of the house, and let the larger huntsman and wolf spiders stay (within reason). They've outcompeted the black widows and brown recluse (the two venomous US spiders; we've got both here), and along with clearing out the nonmoving water near our stream to eliminate mosquitoes they never show up in the house anymore.
I wish my Subscriptions had a "Drop Everything for This One!" Section. This channel is definitely in that category.
I have been noticed!!
Chubbyemu has always been a great find! 👍
A guy I worked with came in one day showing all of us the bite he got that weekend. After he described the spider, thinking it was funny, my other coworker and i said dude go to the doctor, that was a brown recluse. He shrugged it off saying it was fine(it looked gnarly af) but two days later suddenly he was mia and when he finally came back after a weekish, yep, it was indeed a brown recluse bite and he was in the hospital.
Did he learn his lesson?
@@Shijaru64 he was pretty embarrassed but still tried to be all, no biggie🙄
This is my actual worst nightmare and I’m horrified it really happened to someone. One of the main motivations I’m clean and tidy 😫
True story. I used to live in a cabin in the Kisatchie Natl Forest. There were tons of little brown spiders all over. I would play with them and even have them sit on my arm. One day my friend came over and said, 'you know those are brown recluse spiders, righttttt?' No, I didn't know. And after living there 3 years I never got bit once.
I'm folding my laundry right now. Lesson learned
@@danieldavis3035 Oh, so it will only happen if you're actively murdering one of them with your ginormous feet? I guess that's good news to many of us paranoic people 😅
Oh great, this video takes place in St. Louis where I live. O.o
@@danieldavis3035 They're really not aggressive spiders. They only bite if they feel threatened or if you accidentally step on one or roll over on it.
The fact that their venom is heat sensitive may be why my sister’s brown recluse bite on her inner thigh got so advanced. The freaking thing had climbed up her pantyhose while she was doing some quick yard work and likely got semi squished when she started walking, thus triggering the bite. It took a couple months to heal and looked like an open staph infection. Very yikes all around. And yes, we live in Kansas not even 20 minutes from that case study on the 100 year old home with 2,600 captured.
Years ago I was bitten by a spider on my chest area and my skin looked like it had fallen off. Absolutely horrible experience. Hope your sister is okay.
Not even halfway through and I can already feel things in my socks.
Me too. And I'm not even wearing socks
Dude I fucking hate spiders, why did they have to be designed to be creepy
@@VortexKiller2 I'll take a spider over a hornet any day of the week.
@@LuccaAce me too and I havent even watched the video yet!@!!
Im not wearing socks but I have the total phantom spiders on me now lol
As a spider enthusiast, I found this video very informative. Indeed, there are only two medically significant spider species in the United States, the Brown Recluse and the Black Widow. Spiders use up a lot of energy, so they don't go out of their way to bite people. However, if a spider feels trapped and like there are no other options, it has the potential to bite, like any other wild animal. So don't squish them, but give the little dudes some space.
I also feel a little called out, my room is a complete mess. Lol.
I bet you 12 more likes that my brother's room is messier than yours. 🤣
Why squish when fire.
So when you find a spider do you get excited instead?
@@berthaantoinettamason9207 we out here
and when u accidentally squish a pregnant spider and all da babies come out
One time I watched an episode of a show called I'm Alive (Season 1, Episode 1), and they detailed everything that happened to this kid's body after a black widow bit him. It was terrifying. The boy was in such incredible pain from head to toe that the doctors had to induce a coma; prior to that, he wouldn't stop screaming. The antivenom available in the US sucks, so the father had about a week to procure the most effective antivenom from Mexico. He just barely made it, but had he failed, the venom would have permanently damaged his son's nervous system.
Why isn't it in the USA like holy moly man
So, he would've been in a Vegetative state?
That’s horrific oh my goodness
I had a black widow bite me as a pool guy i walked through a ukept yard i got bit on bottom thigh i had a hole for a year where the flesh died every time i got out a vehicle the hole would rub and hurt . I had mild pain about 3 hours after the bite and soreness all over my body but it went away
@@coreyayers8575 Yeah, there's definitely a wide range of reactions from what I understand. I still don't really want to find out what mine is.
I thought I had gotten over my arachnophobia a while ago, but this one creeped me out a little. It’s a good thing I don’t live an area with brown recluse spiders because I always leave my socks on the floor 😂
as an entomology enthusiast: bringing the perpetrator of the bite with you is PARAMOUNT! bites cannot be distinguished by the bite alone. doctors are also not trained in entomology, so do them a favor and bring the biter with or at least try to grab a picture
This guy seemed a more knowledgeable than most doctors and it was really lucky the kid still had the spider.
i will add to this, if you bring the perpetrator in, bring them in in a sealed container so it doesn't bite anyone else.
@@heliveruscalion9124 what if the perpetrator is your dad? He finally comes back from the store with the milk he promised after 20years of absence and then he bites you.
In chile, where Loxoceles laeta lives essentially on every home, doctors ARE trained to recognize both the bite and the spider itself. and tbf half the population can recognize the spider at a glance. spidey is scary asf. source: am doctor.
@@airye i love that. Im just speaking from my north american experience where some people claim a Loxoceles reclusa bite even when they are way outside the range 😆
The slight sarcasm toward messy teenagers got me 😂 “but he didn’t care!” “Walk different, no more rock, easy!”
Eh, the amount of mess they showed in the video seems abnormal, like depression or adhd or the like kind of abnormal, I say as an autist with ADHD and lifelong "higher functioning" depression. That amount of mess where clean and dirty intermingle so much is super abnormal with neurotypical kids that age. It's like how healthy humans don't find it a acceptable to shit where they eat, but some people who are incredibly incredibly depressed basically live in a single room of their apartment/house where they eat delivery food and poop in trash bags and live in a pile of dirty clothes and various trash and bugs because their depression messed them up too much.
22 year old here. Sometimes my thought process is that simple lol.
pile system might be a symptom of ADHD, so not really laziness
i tend to build a mental map of my piles, so yeah, a very odd organized chaos
That part baffled me. Like, dude, you aren't at least curious to see what that thing that feels like a rock in your sock is? Change your socks already! lol!
It's always a great day when Chubbyemu comes out of his monthly coma.
I reckon he's busy the rest of the time...think he's a doctor or something....
*Presenting To The Emergency Room* ☝️
LOL! My thoughts exactly. It's like a monthly Christmas.
He thought
As someone who cannot stand bugs, I love spiders. I always play with them and let them crawl over my hands, then I'll always let em go without hurting them. Spiders do so much good for us that they're never given credit for.
This same exact thing happened to me when I was a teen. Recluse spider in my sock, necrotic legion on my ankle. I ended up getting a rash all over too, but thankfully I didn't have a particularly severe reaction like the one in the video. I was just extremely miserable.
To this day I check my socks even though recluse spiders are unlikely where I live now. Just some weird paranoia.
my great grandma grew up in central mexico and had the same kind of paranoia with scorpions and spiders in her shoes
though a snake did somehow end up in a truck she was in while trying to cross the border (frequent occurance around here) so maybe it was more justified
I wouldn't call it a weird paranoia, as it actually happened; but good thing you ended up being okay in the end :y
@@sabotabby3372 my friend has family in Mexico and they do the same thing
I got bit by one on the arm a long time back. Was playing games at my computer and it crawled out from under the computer and bit my forearm. Ended up having to go have the bit cut open and drained. After they drained and cleaned out the bite area, it took about 3 to 4 weeks for the area to fully heal.
Was staying in Australia with my aunt when i was a kid, found a funnel web spider inside my shoe pretty early on. Taught me to knock my shoes on the ground to check if there's anything in there real quick.
These titles are getting too much😭
Agree
But it's not misleading at all? It just describes what happened and it doesn't leave out any important details either!
I learned to always leave my clothes inside out when in areas where spiders, or other critters are possible - guess that's anywhere. I learned this in the military from when we would go out in the field. Obviously it doesn't prevent critters from getting on to your clothes, but it gives you an immediate, clear view of the part of your clothes that will be against your skin, and forces you to examine your clothes before putting them on. Without doing this, it's more likely that someone will get up and mindlessly throw their clothes on without taking much caution. Always shake out your boots, or shoes before putting them on. I am so super paranoid about critters being in, or ony clothes. I am just as paranoid about them being in my bed!
In san bernadino i almost stepped on a scorpion heading out of the camp house it was chilling next to my boots my buddy grabbed my leg . Complacency kills
That’s a really interesting way to go about it, I’ll try that out now!
Than there is places like Hawaii, where you have gigantic centipedes that just walk right up into your house like "Yo."
Thank you... i will start putting my clothes inside out for this
I don't turn my clothes inside in after washing until I put them on because I'm lazy. Good to know it's also smart.
Fact: it's likely that almost all cases of necrosis linked to a brown recluse could be a MRSA infection from any puncture. This is a rare case, we just tend to blame spiders for everything.
Thank you for being clear about how rare these complications are for recluse/ widow bites. They have a very unfair reputation. I was nervous when I saw the thumbnail but I ended up learning a lot! Like some other people in the comments have mentioned, spiders are extremely reluctant to bite and they typically need to be put in a position where retreat is impossible for them to be provoked into biting. I keep spiders and tarantulas as pets and have never been bitten because they are all given space in their enclosures to hide when I need to open the enclosure for maintenance. They really are special little animals
Thanks for this! I'm a tarantula owner too and I only been bitten once, which was my fault. Luckily I had no major reaction besides some slight swelling and itchiness. They rarely ever bite and if they do, as you said it's because they are put into some situation where they feel the need too in order to defend themselves. They are definitely wonderful creatures!
Craẓy spider bᶖtcḣ, no wonder you r defending the spider.
we had one in our house it didn’t bite
When they are symptomatic the Loxosceles bites can be horrific. One left a 2 1/2 x 3 inch necrotic ulcer on our poor German Shepard's rump; it mostly healed in two months. Do not underestimate the risk. We presume the spider was on the wall the dog leaned against to go to sleep.
Ayyyy T keepers unite
You have just given a very powerful tool to all mothers of teenagers. Conclusion is 20% medical intervention, 80% "clean your damn room."
Also make sure they know to keep a close eye on any and all insect bites. Even if they weren't from anything venemous they can still introduce nasty bacteria!
@@QueenOfCatsX3 Any break in the skin, really.
Tbh gg was just unlucky, the spider could have well crawled into a well organized sock lmao.
Just a note: Not cleaning your room like that can also be a result of depression, or a breakdown of executive function. If your kid's room is a mess, especially if it they're usually neater, don't just assume laziness.
yes! theres so many reasons a room can be messy, and barely any are the kids fault or just "laziness"
Weirdly enough these kids who can't clean the room think they should hold the power to clean the world. Just look at the folks on twitter.
Or it's just how I wanna live my LIFE, mom!!! (But seriously, sometimes people are just cluttered, and that's fine, too. I'm a very messy person, always have been, as long as it's not a danger to your health and safety like hoarding-levels of clutter, then who cares?)
Breakdown of executive function? I’ll have to Google it
@@annacostello5181 a lot of ADHD people have executive dysfunction issues that can make cleaning your own room literal hell. Cleaning up your room alone can begin with you folding clothes and ending up buying more paperclips while Never having finished folding clothes.
Exacutive dysfunction often appears as the inability to start a task at hand. The famous blank page problem for writers for for daily life with adhd
Some corrections needed regarding spider species and ranges, which I feel are critical info: 1) The black widow isn't just one species, and they aren't the only venomous Latrodectus in the US. We've got at least five native Latrodectus species that I know of, and the family is best referred to as "widow spiders" or Latrodectus. 2) We've got other Loxosceles spiders along the southern border states, which are recluses that are brown, but not *the* brown recluse. 3) Thanks to human and cargo transportation, populations of any spider can exist outside of their generally accepted range. Don't trust a red line on a map to inform you whether the scary lesion on your foot is a brown recluse bite or not. If in doubt, get it looked at by a medical professional, regardless of where in the country you are. 4) BONUS ROUND: Invasive species! We've got all sorts of spiders from other continents that are brought by international shipping. Fortunately the venomous ones generally resemble our native species, but it's still very inaccurate to say that "only two species of venomous spiders are found in the United States".
I'm hoping one day we'll get something like "a man expressed a brief doubt about whether he'd locked his front door, this is what happened to his grandmother's intestines" or "a small child drew a picture of a happy sun, this is how his brain necrosed." Either way, interesting viewing as always!
Well if that child were using cadmium yellow for the sun, and had been doing so for years... cadmium poisoning isn't fun, it can bring a boy to tears!
@@puttiplush Something like this would be an interesting video. Say repeated environmental exposure to a substance usually considered benign.
@@PG-wz7by there are a lot of cases of artists being poisoned by chronic exposure to toxins. Non-exhaustive list, but resin, some paints, most things that produce particulate that can become suspended in air, and even seashells have been known to severely disable artists- lead, fumes, mercury, dust laced with toxic stains and paints, etc are all known hazards of more intensive forms of art. I'd be VERY interested in a series on chronic toxin exposure in art supplies and jobsites like construction sites.
Woman goes to doctor with headache, this is what happened to her vision.
True story, unfortunately.
I locked myself out of my apt one evening. When I sat down on the deck to wait for my neighbor I put my leg down on a brown recluse and it bit me. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life. Fortunately I was able to take the spider to the hospital with me and they verified it was a brown recluse. I ended up having a systemic reaction. The venom from the bite caused my kidneys, which have already been damaged due to Lupus, to shut down. I already had hypokalemia and the bite exacerbated it causing me to go into cardiac arrest. The area of the bite became necrotic and I developed an ulcer the size of a baseball. I was actually in the hospital for several weeks. I now have a golf ball sized "crater" in my leg but it has at least healed. Even today, 10yrs later, everytime I think about it, it amazes me how the venom from such a small spider could cause so many health complications.
The doctor could have made a video of your case just as easily. Only he couldn't blame you for a messy room. I had a patient in the hospital who had to have his calf amputated due to a bite there.
@@cellgrrlDefinitely couldn't blame me for a mess! Memory and organization on the other hand is a different story! I have had some scary experiences related to my health issues but I don't think I will ever experience something as painful and scary. I feel so bad for your patient. That would have been an awful experience for them. Drs told me that I had been very close to an amputation. Hearing that shook me a little. I gave the drs permission to use my case as a teaching tool. Hopefully my experience can benefit others
Wow that's crazy, glad you're okay now!
I have lupus too that has given me kidney damage, and I was thinking how if I ever got bit like this it would be my absolute worse nightmare. Glad to hear you are all healed up now. Were your kidneys able to recover any of the function initially lost to the bite at all?
@@aqualife88 thank you! It was crazy. I am glad I followed my gut feeling and went to ER.
As a person with severe arachnophobia, this was EXTREMELY hard for me to watch. But, I just sucked it up (and covered the screen when spiders came on) and watched it.
Out of curiosity do you just fear spiders or non-spider arachnids like Scorpions, mites or ticks?
I've made it to the middle of the video thus far. Averting my eyes whenever a spider comes on-screen. It's still giving me the shivers. I congratulate you friend, for even though we are strangers perhaps seperated by an ocean, we are bound by our irrational fear of eight-legged creepy crawlies and I understand how hard it is to forcibly expose yourself to them, even if it's only virtual imagery/spider-reminiscent stimuli.
@@silverdeathgamer2907 Not the OC, but I'm fine with all of these creatures.
just tolerate them fr
check out the 6 step nlp method for getting rid of phobias
Here's the thing. What most people don't know (including many doctors) is that Brown Recluse bites, and even Black Widow bites are almost never deadly, or even a reason to go to the hospital. I'd highly recommend watching Jack’s World of Wildlife's videos, where he lets himself be bitten by both a Brown Recluse, and a Black Widow to prove that they are not as dangerous as people make them out to be (along with letting many popular stinging insects sting him). The reason you see those terrifying pictures of spider bites online of necrosing skin tissue is because of infections from not washing the bite area. It's almost never because of the actual bite itself. He's definitely a bit eccentric, and sometimes has a hard time staying focused, but I think it's part of the fun haha
This reminds of a story my dad told me about.
When he was younger he would work summers at a flower shop; One year he was tasked with cleaning a-top the back delivery door (Which was very densely occupied by spiders. Being the teenage boy he was he thought to vacuum them up; Only afterwards to realize the spiders had all crawled out of the vacuum, finding safety within shoes/coats within the closet he stored it.
I’m pretty sure this story sparked my arachnophobia…
Pretty sure the cyclone type vacuums of today would kill anything that finds its way inside. What do you think?
@@asdfgoogle let me try it out and get back to you
@@clementello haha. Thank you!
@@asdfgoogle Can confirm that it is not the case. We vacuum up lady bugs every year by the thousands (atrocious smell, but there isn't easier way when they invade). They just happily crawl around inside (the ones that do survive) until they are put back outside.
@@asdfgoogle I think it depends on how strong your vacuum is and how strong the exoskeleton of the creature you're vacuuming is. I'm pretty sure I remember vacuuming up some spiders before and I think their abdomens exploded from the force.
Oh boy, this is going to be fun.
I have an irrational fear of spiders. Wish me luck watching this.
Lol same
Arachnophobia...yeah, me too...nearly threw my phone when the spider picture first popped up...
Is it irrational, though? You have good reason to be wary of spiders.
Nothing irrational about the fear of these spiders
It's very simple. Never wear socks again.
Growing up in rural Texas I was taught to always pick up my shoes, turn them over and knock them together a few times before putting them on. Never had a venomous spider fall out, but it’s definitely saved a few scorpions from getting squashed.
Lucky for you AND the scorpions 🦂
what part of texas??? ive never seen a scorpion but now im scared bro 😭
@@zenith3948 I’m in the south of Texas and once a scorpion fell out of my robe 😂
@@jjgjdigid i live in the Houston metro area and never seen a scorpion but there's alot of roaches and spiders tho
@@idkwhatusertouse I’m much further south haha but yeah been up in Houston before and can’t say I’ve ever seen a scorpion there. A WHOLE bunch of roaches though. They where literally everywhere.
This is a good video! It’s not what I was expecting based on the “suspicious pair of socks” tittle!
It's always such a relief to hear "was able to make a full recovery" at the end of Chubbyemu's videos 🥺
Remember, spiders are homies. They eat mosquitoes and flies and just like to hang out in the corner most of the time
When you have a spider move in into your spot, make sure it's nice and comfy and can at least get SOMETHING when they're there.
If not, they will move out. Sad times.
They also seem to like to crawl on me. And crawling on me means you will get crushed. I’m sorry but I don’t fear them, but they can annoy me and disgust me sometimes. They can be my buddies outside my house and off my body
I love that you encourage people to release spiders outside rather than killing them and not to be afraid of spiders just because of a video like this. It's very easy to have a scorched-earth reaction to spiders but they are just trying to live their life. There's no malice to their actions, so there's no reason for them to die.
But they will die, as they are not immortal.
I think spiders are not sentient beings, so they are not aware of their of their own existence. So I don't see any moral implications of murdering them....
"There's no malice to their actions, so there's no reason for them to die."
Nor is there any benevolence in their programmed-by-evolution behavior, so there is no particular reason for them not to die.
I do that with normal harmless house spiders, let them back outdoors. Although if it were a brown recluse or black widow I’m getting the sandal or hairspray with lighter and sending it back to hell!
@@zachduperron8543 there are no black windows where I live
@@locomotivetrainstation6053 you’re safe then
@@robertjenkins6132 agreed
Okay, instead of using spiders to scare us, you're actually making us scared of being messy xD
A small yet important distinction: all spiders are venomous, all spiders need venom. The two spiders mentioned (brown recluse, and black widow) would be considered "medically significant", however most brown recluse bites are actually very mild, and they are very solitary and docile spiders, so they're not that prone to aggression anyway. Just don't kill spiders, they are very important critters to have around
This!! ♥️
I love spiders... this might be mean but if I find a spider web I'll find a cricket or something to throw in the web. Watch them do their thing. One time I caught a beetle. Like. The flying beetles. Big enough you wouldn't think the web would hold it but it did anddd he got that beetle. So fascinating
Not all spiders😏
✨Uloborus✨
If spiders dont want to be killed they can stay out of my house. Anything that invades my territory loses the right to live.
@@ohno7582 right mentally with right words
My 18 yr old son was bit by a brown recluse last December
The bite was on his left forearm
Doctors traced it with ink to see if it gets bigger or smaller
By the next day his entire arm was red it went all the way up his shoulder to his neck and on his left side of his front chest
He couldn’t breathe and was put on breathing machine
His hospital stay was 3 wks
On new year’s 2022 he sat at his hospital room window to watch the fireworks and I ordered him dominos
He was starting to feel better
I never could have imagine that a tiny spider bite could almost kill you
Turns out the house next door was getting remodeled and it could of stirred spiders to come to our yard
I’m so sorry that happened to your son. I can’t imagine what it’s like seeing your kid go through that
I knew a girl I grew up with in Arkansas, grew up around plenty of recluse spiders. Anyways I knew this girl who got bit on her eyelid her whole eye was scarred she almost died. I’ve been watchful ever since then. It’s crazy what a tiny spider bite can do glad your son is okay!
2021 I presume.
Sound horrific.
the second-last part (new year) was wholesome
They didn't give him antibiotics or anything first? That seems negligent and irresponsible. I was bit by one in my sleep when I was a kid, the doc gave me antibiotics and sent me home. It cleared up just fine, it was nothing but a itchy nuisance. I can't believe they just traced it 😡
You dont have to worry about scaring people away from spiders, the spiders do a good job of that themselves.
I've gotten bit on the chest by one of these, it takes SOOOOO LONG for them to heal! It just eats away at your skin for awhile, then finally starts closing up. I'm in Kansas where they are literally EVERYWHERE, and I've lived in dorms with infestations of them. they are huge and not fun to deal with, but rarely will they kill you. probably a good idea to go to a doc though!
I put this video on to listen to while I cleaned my room, not knowing what the story was going to be about. It was very motivating.
I grew up in central Kansas. Our neighbor got one in his underwear and his underwear was kept neatly in a drawer. The key is how long your clothing has been undisturbed. Spiders apparently like stuff that hasn't been messed with, so even neatly folded stuff in a drawer can be an issue if you haven't worn it for a while. We were taught the best defense was to simply turn your clothes inside out, shake them out, and then turn them rightside out again before wearing to knock out any lodgers they may have picked up.
"Was able to make a full, recovery" Love to hear these words.
And not the dreaded words "Was able to make A.... recovery".
but with permanent kidney damage tho
@@Zahk_noodle was the kidney damage in 1 or both kidneys tho?
Whew! I thought for sure that wasn't going to end well. Glad that young feller recovered. Super scary.
@@Zahk_noodle full recovery
Normally spiders try to run away and give dry bites.
If you trap one in a sock and repeatedly step on it, you will get tons to venom.
Thank you for giving credibility and scientific evidence to this issue. I worked in the spider research community for over ten years and know Rick Vetter (first author of the paper cited in this video) and get questions about this all the time. Spiders really are more of our friends than enemies. In regards to Black widows, which hopefully will get covered more, they are very sessile animals and would only bite if directly threatened, like most spiders. Webs dwelling spiders hardly ever leave their webs and many hide in retreats within their webs. They are NOT coming for you.
Since you worked in the field, have you heard of anything to make them averse to climbing into things like socks? Are there things like plants, scents or lights that attract them to our homes? I know food and shelter is important to everyone but if there was something like mint oil to create a barrier so they stay put of our socks, that'd be helpful. I don't think any of us really want to hurt another living creature.
@@Lilnaomi3 Spiders really only look for one thing: Places to hide where they won't be disturbed.
I don't personally know of a chemical repellant, but if you don't want them to be in a particular place make sure that place is frequently busy. Walk around (spiders can sense tremors very well, like footsteps), turn on the lights, move things around, talk loudly, that will make spiders want to pack up shop and move somewhere else where they're less likely to be found.
Generally speaking, spiders will go where humans aren't because they really want nothing to do with us. The longer you leave a potential hiding spot alone, the likelier it is a spider might've moved in. But even so, spiders are massive cowards and will abandon their hiding spots in a heartbeat if they notice that it's becoming busy, they won't defend it or anything.
i love spiders. they’re great little animals, and they just want to be left alone
@@Lilnaomi3 Spiders are looking for food - insects. If your house is free of spider food then there's no reason for them to move in.
Black widows can be positively identified, and distinguished from other black spiders by the presence of a red, hourglass shaped spot. The easiest way to get bitten is to flip that spider over looking for the spot.
Australian here, though we have lots of venomous species of spiders, dangerous bites are still very rare.
I remember looking into the brown recluse, as it seems the white-tailed spider in Australia may cause similar necrosis, I wonder if it's another enzyme like sphingomyelinase d.
I had a family of white tailed spiders in my bed as a kid, was never bitten as far as I know.
I recall reading (a long time ago) that there was some suspicion that in other (nonrelated species) bites, the necrosis and vasculitis is actually caused by bacteria introduced by the spiders fangs. I saw one of these bites (suspected) on a thumb in a rural hospital here. Was quite infected, the doctor obviously thought it was bacterial as it was im gentamycin immediately and then he was transferred to a larger facility to have his wound debrided and dressed.
Lots of heat, lots of pain and swelling, pretty fast onset necrosis.
Edit: After checking (wikipedia - *gasp*), it looks like white-tailed spiders' venom does not cause necrosis, and cases attributed to these bites were likely infections.
Would be fascinating to collect and analyse spider venom.
So true! I was once bit by a non-venemous spider as a kid, but I got a nasty infection on that arm. All better with antibiotics though.
australians are hardcore af. sleeping with spiders?????
@@thecolorjune Pretty much every spider on earth is venomous...most just don't have the volume of venom or the chemistry in their venom to be dangerous to humans.
A mate of mine was bit on the ass by a spider but didn't get to see what it was and ended up in hospital with a boil the size of a fist on his ass.. i couldn't help myself and had to send him the old song there was a red back on the toilet seat 🤣
@@markshort9098 Ouch! LOL
As an avid spider enjoyer, I really appreciate the disclaimer. 🕷
There are a lot more than two venomous spiders in the US, in-fact almost all spiders have venom. Thing is, there’s very, very few that can seriously injure or kill humans.
Bee/ant/wasps that sting also have venom that varies with species :D
People often freaks out about spiders but i'm more cautious of Ants and wasps since they're more territorial and fearless.
take comfort in knowing no spider will leave my home alive :)
@@kevinbayu7621 In Australia we have a tick that will instantly and permanently paralyse you, add Australian ticks to your list 😂😂
@@kevinbayu7621 Yup. I have no other insects in my yard because several colonies of aggressive red ants have taken it over. I have to be careful while weeding because the suckers will bite and sting at the drop of a hat.
@@sharpshooter_Aus avoiding tick is a no brainer, all kinds of tick carry dangerous disease, those creature are absolutely vile.
A boy watched a chubbyemu video late at night. This is what happened to his sleep schedule.
dont just call me out like that
Hahahahahaha fuck i laughed at this
Love the little message about not killing spiders. Living in Australia my whole life, I tend to agree. Even with massive huntsmans, we always try to let it go if we can!
what if it decides to niche around your house and reproduce like crazy? I feel like it is potentially life threatening. Wish there was better way of disposing it.
Well, yeah. Australians are smart. You don't want to declare war on the spiders, not after what happened with the emus.
i feel like we learn how to identify the most dangerous spiders. huntsmen are chill, but i’m gonna kill a redback if i see one
Huntsman's are the good spiders though!
@@SuperMegaWoofer3000 But, any foreigner who had not seen one before would not think that!
A friend of my mom’s had a recluse bite which unfortunately caused her to permanently lose her hair. Glad to hear the kid is doing okay. I tend to worry over my young ones with this.
I met a little girl on vacation who had been bit by a brown recluse on the side of her face. She had a huge flesh eating wound that was in the process of healing. It was horrifying cause I had no idea spiders in Canada could do that. Her brother and her said it bit her while she was sleeping. She was about 6-8 years old.
@@Beelzebubby91 good thing they don't live in Canada
@@HBC423 They mean a hobo spider, can *apparently* cause the same symptoms and similiar look
@@HajileMalach it’s possible. The girl lived in Osoyoos which seems like it could be a good place for a brown recluse to live.
The titles are getting wild. It’s only a matter of time until “A 56 year old man stepped on a Lego, this is how his spinal cord shut down.”
Great video as always ! I'd like to add that most spiders are actually venomous. As you said, spiders need venom to neutralize and then eat insects, so many of the species of spiders in the US are venomous, meaning that they can produce venom but only a couple are medically significant. If that scares anyone just know that spiders are not aggressive and most of them can't even break skin if they ever try to bite you
Well yes all spiders are venemous but most species venom is so weak to humans that it’s largely ineffective against us unless it’s the recluse spider or black widow. And I’m talking species in the US
Yes, hence “only a couple are medically significant.” Which is exactly what op said.
do ppl not know this?
and most the time if spiders do manage to break skin, it’s just going to feel like a bee sting or mosquito bite- at least, that’s what i’ve heard. i’ve been playing with bugs since i was a child and to this day i still haven’t been bitten by a spider so i don’t even know what it’s like
@@LoveStruckLoner I've been bit by a jumping spider on my neck when I was a little boy. It did feel like a mosquito bite and left an itchy bump. It didn't last as long as a mosquito bite, but it sure scared the hell out of me. They're actually pretty cute for a spider though. I've had one in my garden kill a caterpillar! That little guy was chowing down on him.
It's really wholesome how Emu cares about the spiders
The boy ‘fessed up to piddling in the shower? What an honest lad.
Pissing in the shower? Everyone does that.
I'm pretty sure like 40% of people do it
@@buttersquids so many doers, so few admitterers. 😭😭😭
GG has a point about losing things when his mom would clean...When I was his age (and even now to some extent) away from home and my car, I was a complete neat freak. At home, or in my car, everything looked wrecked. However I could tell you where every single thing was... until someone cleaned... My mother always went around in socks at home so I started leaving 4 sided D&D dice all over the floor in my room as caltrops to...discourage meddling.
That's brilliant.
After what he peed out in the shower it was still a *full* recovery. He's one lucky dude & got a huge wake up call from that experience!
Full recovery doesn't mean no permanent damage. His kidneys will likely fail earlier than they normally would when he gets old. Same thing for the liver for people who drink often.
i thought he was gonna need dialysis for the rest of his life (getting his blood washed)
This channel leads me to a healthy amount of caution. Every case is rare but it happened for real. Sometimes you'll be the rare case and that's why I love this channel. So I'm not that rare case
Stay safe everyone
Ok, I'll drink my lava lamp with caution then
My home was infested with these a few years ago. I've been bitten a few times, worst bite I ever got led to a hole no bigger than a pencil eraser. They are incredibly non aggressive, they typically won't bite you even if you bother them. Their chelicerae aren't strong enough to penetrate human skin, applying pressure to the spider helps it make a full bite, this is why most bites occur when they are under clothes. Putting on a sock for example will squeeze the spider in between your skin and the sock, pressing it's chelicerae into your skin. About 9/10 bites don't lead to necrosis. Males leave very small bites, typically only females inject necrotoxin. A bite will feel like a mosquito bite surrounded by a sunburn. Worse bites you'll start to feel the neurotoxin, you'll feel pins and needles or a numbing sensation. Within hours of a bite you can tell how bad the wound will be. If you notice you've been bitten you should clean the bite and apply ice. You really only need to go to the doctor if you get an open wound too large for a bandaid to cover. To get rid of them you can fumigate, DO NOT SPRAY! Brown Recluses don't absorb the spray through their legs, you'll instead turn your home into a buffet of dead bugs for them to eat and you'll actually notice more spiders after spraying. Get rid of smaller bugs in your home and the spiders will go away.
Not so sure about the spraying. I've seen several dead BR's after spraying in our home each year. I do know that glue traps work pretty well. Lay them out near air ducts. Haven't seen a single one this season, but I'd normally spot 4 or 5 by now in previous years. Kinda weird.
omg a spider infested house is really my worst nightmare 😭
Step 1: get bit untill you form an imunity to the bites
Step 2: encourage and cultivate a yuge spider infestation
Step 3: gg now you have a completly burglar proof home. If you want more fun, put a sacrificial altar to the spider god in the living room, scare the living crap out of any intruder lmao
Spiders have chelicerea. Good job though!
@@tomrich04 you'll see dead ones after spraying because you killed their food and they starved, or they got poisoned from dead bugs.
Chubbyemu - "I'm not trying to scare you about spiders, but failing to clean your room can have catastrophic consequences kids."
Ooh yep, as an Aussie you've gotta watch out for spiders, haven't had them in socks before but they especially love living in shoes you leave outside, make sure you give your shoes a good shake if you leave them outside for a long period of time.
All I can say, don’t leave them outside. And just get a nice open closet with shelves for shoes. Problem almost solved xd
@@FatfighterXD1 slap the soles together 3 times then drop them on the ground. Then see if anything dazed and confused crawls out. This should also work for scorpions in Nevada...
Haha my boss had a rat sleeping in his boots yesterday
I was looking for the other Australians. I'm surprised there's so few poisonous spiders in the US.
I've had a huntsman spider climb up into my bed on top of the doona out at an eco retreat in Margaret River WA~*shivers*~ so yeah they sometimes come right for ya!
As a person with arachnophobia who throws her clothes on the floor I think this video has finally scared me into picking my clothes up (really hope this gets rid of my spider problem as I feel like there’s at least one in my apartment a week, just last week I got surprised by a spider creeping on me in the shower)
If you see a spider, there are a bunch hiding
@@Kage-Ni-Kaitaku-Umi best thing to tell someone with arachnophobia
In my experience, empty boxes are more prone to spiders than clothes. Or you could just shove towels under your door, spiders cant get in that way. (I also have arachnophobia)
@@Kage-Ni-Kaitaku-Umi If it's a baby that's true, if it's not it could just be passing through.
@commemorative7627 If it's a baby that could be even worse. One night I saw one baby spider on my windowsill and didn't really mind even though I don't like them. Next thing I know there's like 50 baby spiders pouring in through the blinds and trying to rappel down the wall and out towards my bed (which was right next to the window). I just got to smashing, I felt bad, but there was so many I couldn't let them come in so close to where I sleep.
Edit: I completely misread your comment
There is no more angelic sound than that of "a full recovery"
Well, I did hear a "permanent kidney damage" in there, so it couldn't be that "full"
True story, my father actually one morning woke up and saw our house cat playing with one of my mothers shoes. Staring at the shoe and circling around it my dad was like "what the heck is he doing". Lord behold when my dad went over there was a scorpion hiding inside and he quickly put it outside at the edge of the property.. Thank goodness both the cat and my dad were paying attention. It was hiding in her work shoes she puts on daily. It really is crazy thinking about it. Again this legit happened. scorpions weren't common in our home but we did come across maybe 5-6 over the 20+ years of being in that house? Anyway... just a reminder for yall to be careful
6:16 "Spider eat bug.
Spider need venom that neutralizes bug."
You don't need to baby talk us Bernard 😆😆
his name is bernard?
@@tkskatesph Yes. Bernard
Living in Australia, the basic "check everything before wearing it" response was installed in me as a kid.
Well, Australia is a different beast, over there probably even the air is venomous and the food is poisonous, that's why you need lockdown for another 100 years.
@@Moldylocks We are immune to the venoms, poisons and very soon, we will be immune to Deathclaws.
I once put on socks. They were warm and fuzzy. "I'm feeling better already" I thought....but I was not feeling better. I had actually become intoxicated on a lava lamp that I chugged, and I had put my feet inside the toaster. Here's how my brain turned into 5 day old pasta.
This feels like those nonsensical "in the last episodes" montages at the beginning of tv series episodes and I love it
@@TheNasaDude "If one silly comment got me some likes" I thought, "then if I make more silly comments, I will become liked. I feel more popular already" I thought. But I was, in fact, slowly vegetating in my own fluids, as I overdosed over and over, on LOLZ. I had developed "hyperlolzemia" ...
so glad YT finally introduced me to this channel
I'm very grateful for your disclaimer at the start, spiders already get a pretty bad rep despite 99.99% of them being harmless to humans, so it's nice to have that established first and foremost before talking about this topic!
Similar to how media presents sharks, when infact cows kill more people per year than sharks
i'm not grateful and I dont care about the disclaimer , fk bugs
@@jurivjerdha2467 literally who asked
@@krlosz1996 dogs dont ask , they listen
Concerning socks:
I was at high school with a kid called Brian. Hanging out with him at his home after school one day I heard his mother scold him: _”Brian! I wish you would stop blowing your nose on your socks!”_ 😂
Edit: and now you know the rest of the story!
Oh dear. XD
Someone's mom is in denial.
But those are very convenient. 🥺
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMFAO!!