Yes unless you had the anti venom with 60 mins
Nah. But you should see a Doctor just in case of a side effect. You will swell up more-so in that area of the bite.
Really, I guess it depends on how big the spider is. I am trying to get them to mate with Buffalo. Not having much success though as the Buffalo keeps stepping on the spider...besides the birth canal is too small to pass a black wiffalo.
I only got 8 in my dark garage. that has no bugs so they will slowly eat each other until there is only one, and that one will freeze.
Black widows are notorious spiders identified by the colored, hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens. Several species answer to the name, and they are found in temperate regions around the world.
This spider's bite is much feared because its venom is reported to be 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake's. In humans, bites produce muscle aches, nausea, and a paralysis of the diaphragm that can make breathing difficult; however, contrary to popular belief, most people who are bitten suffer no serious damage―let alone death. But bites can be fatal―usually to small children, the elderly, or the infirm. Fortunately, fatalities are fairly rare; the spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them.
The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects―and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the insect its name. Black widows are solitary year-round except during this violent mating ritual.
These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs. Spiderlings disperse soon after they leave their eggs, but the web remains. Black widow spiders also use their webs to ensnare their prey, which consists of flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars. Black widows are comb-footed spiders, which means they have bristles on their hind legs that they use to cover their prey with silk once it has been trapped.
To feed, black widows puncture their insect prey with their fangs and administer digestive enzymes to the corpses. By using these enzymes, and their gnashing fangs, the spiders liquefy their prey's bodies and suck up the resulting fluid.
I saw a piece on sky news about that, but it's not the black widow, it's called the hunter widow I think, still have venom but are a lot less lethal.
In Australia its called a redback spider and yes it can make you very ill and in some circumstances kill you they tend to inhabit quiet places and hide under rubbish I found one in an old typewriter I was repairing .
Read their bite is a bit more of a whack than a bee sting, if you are allergic to its venom, it could make you very ill.
Would it kill you?
Sorry don't know & wouldn't want to speculate.
Like a snake bite, you'd have to get it treated. It IS poisonous, you know.
possibly. if you dont treat the bite immediately. they are very poisonous
in the news it i believed black widow's are coming to England ! If one simply pecked me would it kill me,i'm quite concerned!
