What does a spider crickets bite look like?

Answer 1

It depends on whether you mean the "Golden-silk orb web weaver," or the "Brazilian Wandering Spider." They are very different Spiders.

If the first, some Nephila species, bites you, you will feel the mechanical injury, which would be about like getting a couple of big rose thorns driven into your skin, but the venom won't bother you much. It may hurt a little, but there will be no lasting effects.

If the second, some Phoneutria species, bites a person, that individual will feel intense pain. If the spider delivers a full dose of venom, even an adult may die unless the antivenom is administered in time. Besides intense pain, the other main symptoms are cardiac failure, priapism, and irreversible central nervous system damage.

Answer 2

Several different species of spiders get called "banana spiders," but all spiders have bites that look the same if the fangs of the spider are large enough that the bite can be seen at all. All spiders have two chelicerae each of which is tipped by a fang. So the bites that are visible will show two puncture wounds. If they bleed a little, there may be a little blood visible. If the spider's venom creates a local reaction, then the skin surrounding each puncture will suffer inflammation. There may be a tiny spot of pink around each puncture, or the inflammation may spread and there may be a larger pink circle with somewhat darker marks inside where the fangs penetrated the skin.

The spiders that are typically tagged with the name "banana spider" do not have necrotic venom. The big orb web weavers that get called banana spiders in Florida do not have particularly toxic venom, but they have big fangs, so you might see the holes and a little irritation for a few hours. The very large and very dangerous spiders from the Amazon that are also sometimes called "banana spiders" have venom that is so painful that as far as I know people do not particularly notice or care what the bites look like. They have fangs that might be even larger than the Florida spiders, so I think that surely a couple of punctures would be visible for a while. The venom also produces inflammation. Depending on the volume of venom injected (the spider, mercifully, frequently does not inject venom, or injects only enough venom to command the respect of the human who has interfered with it), there will be more or less inflammation, swelling, etc.

Spiders that produce necrotic venom are not ordinarily called "banana spiders." Necrosis just means "tissue death." Their bites show up as circular areas around the bite area that are open, inflamed, etc., and that may progress to a black circle of dead flesh or even a deep pit in the arm, hand, leg, etc. that may need to be given long-term treatment by doctors because the skin and underlying flesh does not easily grow back. Sometimes MRSA infections are mistaken for necrotic spider bites.

It's almost impossible that somebody would be bitten by an orb web spider while sleeping because those spiders never come indoors. If one of those spiders did bite you, you would notice it immediately and so you would see the spider. Then you could see exactly what their bite looks like.

It is common in the Amazon for people to be bitten by the "armored spiders" that are so dangerous. Frequently it happens when army troops sleep in tents. The spiders, called wandering spiders, wander into somebody's sleeping bag or boot. Nobody sleeps through a bite like that, so it is likely that the person who was bitten would see the spider (unless he or she could not turn on a light in time). There would probably be no doubt about what bit them simply because nothing else that size hurts that much. The person who got bitten, and the people in the immediate area, would probably all see the bite.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, nobody has happened to have a camera suited for microphotography when somebody has been bitten. If you've ever been deeply jabbed by a blackberry thorn you've probably seen very much the same kind of wouind. Just imagine two of them 1/8 of an inch apart.

Answer 3

it looks just like a spider cricket bite

Answer 4

It looks like a ant bite but hurts more