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Posted by ms_minnamouse (My Page) on Fri, Aug 29, 08 at 19:05
| I know they're not insects but... I wanted to know why they bite people when they're sleeping. We're too big to eat or pose any threat. |
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RE: A spider question
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| According to what entomologists tell me, no one can say it's a spider bite unless they catch the spider in the act. |
RE: A spider question
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| Who says spiders bite people when they are sleeping? I've never heard that one. But many spiders are nocturnal. |
RE: A spider question
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| If spiders get under the covers, when a human moves it is considered a threat and the teeth come out. In my house I have no doubt that there are spiders everywhere because I see them in lots of places. And even the tiny ones can bite- I watched one on my arm once and he let me have it. One time I put an afghan over my lap as I watched TV- it had been unused, on a chair for months. I had bites over my legs which I blamed on little spiders- we don't have chiggers here. |
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| It was said: "And even the tiny ones can bite" Maybe so. But, again, entomologists tell me that spiders are seldom able to pierce human skin. |
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| In my experience, it is always assumed that it "must have been" a spider. I agree, the tiny ones don't have big enough fangs to penetrate the epidermis. A spider could also appear to be trying to bite when it is just trying to lap up moisture from the skin. There are more things that suck blood for a living than most of us are familiar with.
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| I say they bite. Especially when I when I have a scar from it that happened when I was sleeping. Their bite dissolves tissue and creates a white scar. |
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| I pulled my ladder,aluminum out from beside the house to start painting. A lot of little white spiders ran all over, i kind of ran a rag over the rungs in a hurry & went up the ladder. reached down to get my wet cloth & little spiders ran all over & several on me. I felt them bite & started turning red & swelling (allergic to bees & even tiny ant bite me while I was washing a window & I killed it-arm swelled up enough so had to take benadryl) well same with the all white, cream colored I guess is better, friend had given me boxes of stuff from China & most still sealed up, I had taken them from trunk of car to backyard, both the white/cream spiders & red spiders came out of the boxes. I thought I better spray but some had run off. The little cream ones do get regular size. As I have spotted larger ones out there. I had not cleaned out the inside of the ladder rungs & they hid in there & came out for the moisture in my rag & so bit me. So we are getting new critters in our country from China & other countries. Don't know if red ones cause a problem or not. I have lot of black widows with the nice red spot. Never had a problem with them. |
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