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hey heres an angle to look at from an AZ NATIVE who has been bitten by a black widow. i was about 12 cleaning some debris out of a century plant when one crawled on my hand and nailed me. i freaked, thought i was gonna die on the spot!
mom called dr cuthbertson who has a file on me a mile thick from various crash and burns thruout life(accident prone). doc stated i would probably be nauseous and there would be some swelling. and for the next coupla days my hand swelled and i threw up alot. after that and packing it in ice swelling went down and i was ok.
now i posted earlier in the year about walapai tigers or cone nose bugs. they live with packrats and come out about 745PM to feed on anything with blood. probiscus sharper than any needle known to man. you will never feel them until next morning. they go after my dogs and i go after them everynight.
key is to wipe out packrat nests. but living smack dab in middle of real sonoran dezert, its kinda hard to wipe them all out. have gone on crusade on my property but the winged bastards still fly in and sneak into house.
i have had bug guy over a bunch of times to spray. but they still fly in. they are killed on sight and resemble a giant tick when smashed. blood everywhere. real gross!
anyway got nailed over the past few years by them. recently as two weeks ago. 4 bite marks across my lower back about dime size. hurt like hell and in a day or two get itchy like a mutha. after about a week they go away. scab over and thats it.
look up assassin bug/cone nose bug/walapai tiger. then go out at night and snoop around and see if you find any. then youll have an answer.
black widows leave a huge thick white web with white pea sized eggsacs.
good luck.
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