Question

Brown Recluse vs. Black Widow: Which bite is worse?

Answer 1

Brown recluse can be much more deadlier than a black widow.....it carries necrotizing facia-itis (spelling)....a flesh-eating virus.

Answer 2

And Oregon.

Answer 3

It's deadly

Answer 4

:O

Answer 5

actually it does not melt the flesh of a human its toxins literally rots the skin every one knows that

Answer 6

Black Widow doesn't make your skin melt.

Answer 7

nether dose brown recluse

Answer 8

The scientists deny it, but we have them here in California.

Answer 9

In Va. and S.C. too....!!

Answer 10

ewwww....ouch!

Answer 11

I'd say brown recluse b/c it's venom is more necrotic than a black widow..

Answer 12

On Thursday I took my daughter and two other students cave-crawling at Lava Beds National Monument. It was snowing like crazy and inside the caves it was actually preferable. Before leaving, I decided to use the boots I'd worn in the Middle East back in the First Gulf War. I'd not worn them in probably 10 years. Before putting them on, I made extra sure that there were no spiders hiding in them.

Answer 13

I would have checked those boots also..... cave crawling sounds like a blast....;)

Answer 14

Both times I've been in wartime conditions I did that every time I put them on.

Cave crawling is a blast. Bring kneepads and a *******. Two flashlights with fresh batteries suggested as well.

Answer 15

I am with ya.....;)

Answer 16

Our officials kept denying we had recluses here too. Over the past five years I kept running into people who been bitten, or knew someone that had been bitten though. Each time the hospital would deny the antidote saying we did not have them, and the people would return with the wounds rotting off before they finally would get treated for the recluse bite. By then the treatments are too late and there is a lot of damage.

Finally, with so many recorded bites appearing in the emergency rooms, they had to reluctantly admit that the recluse is here in New Mexico

Answer 17

There's a rumor that there's something like a $10,000 bounty for bringing a brown recluse to Stanford University to prove that there's brown recluses in California.

Answer 18

Do they want me to catch one here in Oregon and smuggle it to California? It is only a few miles to the state line! lol

Answer 19

??
Widow is just famous,...

Answer 20

I have to say a brown recluse.... I seen what one did to my sister.... although a black widow is suppose to be deadly.... so I thought.... great question.... really made me think....
Both are nasty as ****.... I don't kill much but those... I would....!!
Peace and Love♥

Answer 21

Actually, neither is worse than the other. The Black Widow venom attacks the nervous system. The Brown Recluse attacks the tissue. One stops the heart, the other eats through you, without proper medication, until you die. They are both equally bad.

Answer 22

I have both spiders in my area, and although a black widow can make you sick, the recluse will rot your skin off. I knew a clerk who was bitten in the arm, and parts of her arm just kept rotting away layer after layer. Finally, she had to leave her job.

Answer 23

Well with experience of being bitten three times in my life.... they are worse. The reason being is that they can be easily provoked and if they feel like their space is being evaded they will come after you. And with that, signs show up within a few days, and you can never know unless you've been bitten quite a bit of times.

I've known some who have let it go for so long they had to amputate legs, arms, fingers and so forth. others, ive know as ******** and elderly people die from them. They are worse than a black widow because of that.

Black widows, if you leave them alone, they leave you alone basically. Ive been around both for about 19 years and was never bitten by a black widow.

Answer 24

I would say the brown recluse. Black widows venom is different fromt he BR but the BR's bite does damage to the tissue. Both can lead to serious damage

Answer 25

They're dangerous but people overreact. You can't really blame them either, they're only the way *** made them.

Answer 26

Yes, Brown Recluse toxins are necrotic. But 2/3 of people bitten experience necrotic skin lesions. There are no recorded deaths of the brown recluse in the U.S. Yes, the Recluse's bite is more venomous than a rattlesnake's, but remember there's ****** any venom being injected into you with a spider.

Answer 27

They are very poisonous.

Answer 28

after it bites your skin will rot

Answer 29

Funny this gets mentioned. I have an exchange student from Siberia in my household. She killed a brown recluse this morning and asked me what it was.

She then started to research it on her laptop and when she saw the pictures of bits she got really concerned. Apparently there is nothing like this where she comes from.

We kill the ******* on sight.

Answer 30

Never been bit by one, but I can tell from pictures that Brown Recluses are evil little *******.

Answer 31

I guess

Answer 32

I had one in my garage last summer! Yikes!

Answer 33

3 times as many people in the U.S. have died from Brown Recluse bites as have died from Black Widow bites.

Answer 34

There are no recorded deaths of the brown recluse spider bites in the United States.

Answer 35

I was going out with this black woman whose husband at died, we were making out and she bit me on the neck, ouch! So I chose Black Widow.

Answer 36

With a black widow you might get sick for a day but brown recluse toxin can eat a considerable amount of flesh.

Answer 37

I know

Answer 38

Now that you mention it women who marry men kill em and take their money are known as black widows as well. There was a pretty good movie some time back about that. I want to change my vote.

Answer 39

lolol