32. Texas is among the states with lots of species such as:
• the Northern Black Widow
• the Western Black Widow
• the Southern Black Widow
• the Brown Recluse
• the Texas Recluse- these ones have necrotic venom, if you get bitten you should see a doctor immediately, their color is very dark.
33. Utah, however, has fewer:
• the Black Widow
• the Desert Recluse
• the Yellow Sac Spider
But, still not better!
34. And so do Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia:
• the Southern Black Widow
• the Northern Black Widow
Only two highly dangerous species! What a relief!
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Thank God I live in Maine
hate spiders i live in new york state
Send me a list of dangerous spiders in Jacksonville Florida, Thank you
I don’t want to make them my best friend but I want this info to be safe. It seems there’s lots of spiders and snakes that you need to know about here in Texas. Ugh!!!
Here in Kentucky we have quiet a few. I’m not scared of spiders, unless it jumps at me. We have wolf spiders, brown recluse, and a beautiful green and yellow spider that someone said it’s a garden spider. As far as poisoned, I have no clue
New Mexico! It’s a state.
Pictures might have been a real help here, descriptions were vague at best. Not a very useful “fact sheet”
Brown recluse, black widows
In Oregon and Washington there are Recluse Spiders and Hobo Spiders. Both can do a number on you. Article is not acrurate.
Not true for Virginia, we also have the brown recluse. I should know I’ve been bite twice as well as my husband.
The report is useless with out pictures to identify the spiders mentioned.
pictures would have been nice. I live in MA & want to know what this killer looks like. I hate spiders & snakes just like Jim Stafford. Don’t like anything that can kill you silently or with little notice.
How about the Tarantula family in Oklahoma..
This is a great topic and I would love to read about the deadliest spiders in my state except that you have the article all filled up with ads and other distracting material. Clean up the page and you will have a much greater readership.
My coworker got bit by a brown recluse. That lil spider did major damage at the bite. They had to dig out a lot of dead flesh. A LOT
These people don’t know what they’re talking about. I live in southern Arizona and it’s lousy with black widow spiders.
Did I miss Mississippi?
You didn’t include Tennessee!!!
love the president one!!!!!!!!
In the flat South Carolina Midlands, black widow and brown recluse spiders are about as common as other eight-leg flycatchers. Last fall, while I was raking leaves, a brown recluse dropped into my shirt collar. It left its calling card — three fangs marks — above my left shoulder blade. Since I am particularly averse to making payments on doctors’ beach houses, I tried to let it get better and fade away. It didn’t, though.
About five months later, I was in the ER for something trivial, and I thought to ask the N.P. about the large grapefruit, somewhat flattened, growing on my back above my left shoulder blade. The N.P. became a bit agitated, but not too much to call for his trade cutlery. I had never felt so much like a turkey.
After the N.P. cut the grapefruit down the middle, he went to work with a sharp spoon or scoop for about half an hour. But I spare you…
The N.P. did tell me that, had I not removed the necrotic flesh, it would have continued to cause me pain for the rest of my life.
live here in Texas and have encountered Black widows and captures a Brown Recluse, i wanted to see the fiddle on its back and there it was, showed her off to the folks at the bar then let her go. spiders fascinate me and i respect them, they are on the job
Photos would be useful.
Brown Recluse spiders in Missouri. People think they are not that dangerous but depending on where they bite, it can be lethal.
I’ll stay in Chicago Illinois. Is there any poisonous spies?
What spider lives in Texas
What happened to Tennessee? I went over every page 3 times.
sd has brown reclouse too
Need information for Eastern Shore of Virginia. What spiders do we have?
It would have been helpful to see pictures of those spiders so one can recognise them when one sees them. BTW I hate spiders
Brown widows have egg sacs with small finger like projections
all over – regular widow sacs are smooth.
Actually, the most deadly creatures are presently in Washington DC… Those are the deadlies people should be trembling about!
I find the black widows in Florida interesting. We had them around our home for 17 years without a problem.
We had them by the doors to our screened back porch. One son had a pet in a SunTea jar. Another son had one in his bedframe by his pillow. We loved seeing all the flies, roaches, and especially mosquitoes in their webs. We had at least a dozen.
I played with them, crawling hand to arm, etc. I worried far more about the aggressive black and yellow banana spider in our porch corner. While widows ran, it viciously attacked anything touching a web strand.
Only possible one was when one of our cats knocked over an end table stored in our garage and the cabinet door trapped him. Found him the next morning with a VERY swollen front paw and only a large web in the corner. He bolted as soon as I let him go and was gone for 2 days. He returned fine and no more cat’s curiosity about our things. lol
It would be nice if you would post of picture of the spider in question.
This article would have been much more informative with PICTURES of the spiders. Just a thought.
Nice picture of the state of Washington DC
I live in NV and I have know idea which spiders live here but I do not like them personally.
I have studied Spiders for most of my life. Currently I have kept Latrodectus species and Loxosceles species without accident. I am aware here in Georgia : Savannah, Chatham County that there are only 2 venomous species here: Latrodectus mactans and introduced species geometricus.
Loxosceles reclusa is most found in Northern parts of Georgia .
Thank you so much for all of this information. It is truly helpful to all.
Carol Ware
So I guess Mississippi doesn’t have spiders. Or should I look for “land mass” in the article. I mean I know we are hated but damn. Lol
Wrong about Arizona – we have black widows here in our garage.
While not spiders, but I have killed 2 young scorpions in the bathroom.
The only good spider. in my opinion, is a dead spider.
Your artical was hilarious. My daughter who is in college now, still won’t go near any. We live in Texas. I’m constantly telling her how a widow web feels and always shake her shoes out. Being her mom has quieted my fear of them . Thank you so much!!
Clearly you didn’t realize the Black Widow Spider is all over Arizona. 20 of 22 cats bitten did not survive!!
Why not just have a healthy dislike and not be ‘terrified’ by spiders (or snakes, etc.)? Each has a specific purpose and part of the animal kingdom and has a role to play (as do we).
You’re advocates, so please pass along education and ways to live with our natural world and don’t pass along your paranoia. It doesn’t promote love of nature, with all its benefits and complications. Thanks.
You left out Oregon thanks a lot for nothing
I actually like and appreciate spiders! They are beneficial and beautiful. I do respect the venomous indigenous black widows and brown recluse! I know where to find them and how to avoid their annoyances. They are generally not aggressive but I respect their space.
Reading about them is interesting and can lead to greater understanding and appreciation.
I am one who saves as many of the father’s creations as possible. I get people are afraid of spiders. But only a handful are aggressive. Before you go killing relentlessly. There are good things spiders do. And they are not trying to eat you 🤣🤣🤣
I lived in las vegas for forty years. Scorpions, Bats, Black widows and The brown recluse Scared the hell out of me. Other little corridors can be annoying. Thank goodness we didn’t have mosquitoes in las vegas. I now live in misery, A much different story there. Lol
What about the tarantula?
Why the arachnophobia?? Most venom isn’t deadly even if they do bite. We need to start respecting all life, even helpful insects lives. Without spiders we would have more flies and annoying pests. Spider-Man would be ashamed of your paranoia.