Hobo Spider
The hobo spider is from the family Agelenidae. The hobo spider is also known as the aggressive house spider. Hobo spiders are found generally in the northwest part of the United States, western Canada, and throughout Europe. The hobo spider usually prefers dry and warm climates and will sometimes live within houses; except for in Europe, in which they are found primarily outside. Hobo spiders are moderately large spiders. The male hobo spider is about twelve to eighteen millimeters and the female is around the same size as the male. The only difference in size is that they have a larger abdomen.
Hobo Spiders
Hobo spiders are brown in color and have no distinct rings on their legs, and they are covered in short hairs. Their abdomens usually have several chevron shaped markings - usually, these markings are common among other spiders and some hobo spiders may not have them at all. Appearance wise, males are notably different from females in that they have two large palps. The palps, which is the male genitalia is often mistaken for fangs or venom sacs. The females also have these palps, but they look different, as they are not swollen like the males.
The hobo spider is usually seen running across floors. The males search for female hobo spiders during mid-summer until early fall, so that is the time when they are most likely to be seen. The hobo spider is a funnel-weaving spider, which means the web that it produces is not sticky, but rather it is meant to be a trip web. The hobo spider will trap insects that cannot maneuver the funnel surface. The hobo spider hides in the back of the funnel waiting for something to get caught in the web. Hobo spiders have been known to sometimes build their webs in or around human habitats.
The hobo spider is not an aggressive spider by nature and will generally avoid humans. However, when a hobo spider is tending to their eggsacs they tend to become even more aggressive and at that point they may attack a human. A hobo spider will usually bite a human due to getting trapped in clothing, in bed sheets, and being trapped next to the skin. The initial bite by the hobo spider usually is not painful, but in about thirty minutes a hard area will appear. Within 15 to 35 hours the sore will blister. The blister will break in around 24 hours, and the wound left behind generally will heal very slowly.
Hobo Spider Bite
The hobo spider bite is not considered to be fatal, however the spider’s venom is strong enough to cause local pain and also to cause tissue death at and near the bite. Because hobo spider bites are often mistaken for the brown recluse spider bite, it is always a good idea to bring in the spider if possible when seeking medical attention, which should be immediately after any spider bite.
The impact of a hobo spider bite is much like the brown recluse spider. Pain might not be associated with the bite, but a small hard area may appear within 30 minutes of the bite.
This bite area will be surrounded by an expanding red welt that can reach 5-15 cm in diameter. Blisters form within 12-48 hours, which eventually crust over the cratered wound. A scab can develop over necrotic tissue that eventually sloughs off. In some cases, tissue loss is so severe that surgical removal of damaged tissue and repair are needed.
The fully developed lesion may reach 3 cm or more in diameter which may take several months to heal and often leave permanent scars.
The occurrence of systemic illness is variable. However, the most common symptom is a severe headache, sometimes occurring within 10 hours (sometimes ~30 minutes) that does not respond to aspirin. The headaches have been compared to migraines and may persist for a week, sometimes accompanied by nausea, weakness, fatigue, temporary loss of memory, and vision impairment.
Here is a picture of a Hobo Spider Bite:
Very detailed text about the Hobo Spider can be found here:
Myths about the Hobo Spider by Rod Crawford at the University of Washington
Hobo Spider Web Site by Darwin K. Vest
Written by Jim on June 16th, 2006 with
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Ok here is my ? and i dont know if i will get a comment back but i would really like on my little girl is 3 and we have had alot of spiders this summer especialy wolf spider and HOBO i thought the spiders where something else but there not im going to have my house sprayed because my 3 year old got bite now she has a very bad spider bite on her ankle on the back of the leg the doc put her on medication but im afraid she is going to get really sick .. im looking for early bite pictures from a hobo can you send any
Hi MarGena,
The Hobo spider is not a good climber and is usually found at ground or the basement level. Chemical can help, but the best bet in preventing
The Hobo Spiders from entering your home is by making sure a tight seal exists between the foundation and the wood structures of a house, and in all low areas of entry such as under outside doors. Ground vents and basement windows should be properly sealed or screened.
Most (%50 +) hobo spider bites are dry defensive bites where no venom is injected. When envenomation does occur, both local and / or systemic manifestations may appear; usually, right after envenomation, a large area of erythema (redness) forms around the bite site. This erythema will usually disappear in a few hours, leaving a small reddish hard area.
Blistering may occur within 24 to 48 hours and may rupture, leaving an open ulceration that will eventually turn into a scab.
Around three weeks after the hobo spider bite, the area will become pronounced looking much like a target (bulls-eye). The end result (about 45 days) is a small scar but in some cases, could take up the three years to heal - this usually only happens when bitten in an area of fatty tissue.
Long-term sequelae from a hobo spider bite may include intractable burning pain, a damaged vascular system and cyst development in the area of the bite. Approximately half of the people who are envenomated by the hobo spider suffer systemic effects that include severe headaches that may not respond to over-the-counter analgesics, dry mouth, nausea, weakness, lethargy, dizziness, visual disturbances, hallucinations, and joint pains. In rare cases, aplastic anemia will develop several weeks after the bite and this may be fatal.
As for any pictures of early hobo spider bites, I don\’t have any. However, I am positive that our readers would love to see one and if you can take a few pictures, I would be more than happy to post them on this site for everyone to see!
I hope that helps!
Jim.
Have something on my inner thigh, I thought it was a pimple or something but I tried to pop it and it didn’t so I am thinking that maybe it is a spider bite but I am not sure. It is red and swollen and it feels as if it would be a bruse.
Can you please send mean email telling me if it is a spider bite and send me some pictures of early spider bite fitting the description that I gave you if it is a spider bite please.
my fiance has a sore on his foot and i was wondering if it could be a hobo spider bite. could you please send me a picture of a hobo bite in the early stages? thank you!
We have had a lot of different bites around our apartment building and I was just wondering if I could get pictures of what the HOBO bite looks like. I have pictures of the bites that we have been coming up with. Now someone in my family has a staph infection and the doctor said that he can’t tell us what bit him first to make it become a staff infection so pictures in all stages of a HOBO bite would be great.
my fiance has a sore on her foot and i was wondering if it could be a hobo spider bite. could you please send me a picture of a hobo bite in the early stages? thank you!
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thanks
I I totally agree with these ladies. I myself just got back from the doctors being told that I got bit by a hobo spider. I wanted to see just what I was going to be seeing in the next couple of days and weeks. I was told what to expect but seeing ahead what to expect would be better. Please post pictures. Thank you.
I have what looks like a spider bite, it started about a week and a half ago, it is in my lower back, it first started as a pimple, about 4 days ago it really started to hurt it even hurted when I walked, 2 days ago I couldn’t take the pain any more so I showed it to my husband.
He was really concerned because he has already been bitten twice already by a spider and my daughter once before. When he saw the spider bite, he said it looked pretty bad, I cant reach to see it my self cause its on my lower back, my husband tried popping it two nights ago.
When he first squeezed it was really thick blood and pus came out which splattered all over the place like it was just ready to come out.
That pain was terrible it was worst that when I gave birth so you know it had to hurt, I still feel a lot of pain, my husband wants me to go to a doctor but I don’t have the time plus I don’t even know what kind of spider bite it is.
I do know it’s really swollen, it has like 3 different colors, black, yellow, and green.
Please, if you know what kind of spider bit me please email me ASAP. I would really appreciate it.
Thank you.
Recently my brother has develop numerous ulcerous type sores on his leg. One of the sores is about 1″ and has gone clear to the bone. He is under a doctors care, but it seems to be getting worse because more sores have appeared on the same leg.
I feel that they are spider bites, but I am unable to get anybody to support my theory. Yesterday the one near his knee was filled with pus filled blood and it was swelled. I iced the area to take the swelling down but it didn’t help. The temp around the effected area was approximately 102.6 F. My parents took him to their house, I have suggested to my parents that a spider may have bitten him, but they don’t think a spider could do that much damage. I am in desperate need of as many pictures of what hobo spiders can do so that I can get them the information so they can make the correct call. I am afraid for my brother and want to get the best for him.
Kimberly
damn I got bit by 4 spiders in a row that I caught I think there was a wolf spider 2 house spiders and one hobo. I stuck my hand in a jar playing truth or dare and then I got bit 4 or 5 times and it seems like my hand could be falling off. So, Please help I don’t know what to do about the bites.
I have a blister or bump in my lower right of my knee and i tried to pop it but when i do it opens and blood and pus comes out and it really hurts i think is from a hobo spider bite but its spreading could you write back and tell me what might it be thank you. Oh and its hard and red all over the area.
2 days ago i was watching tv in my room and i felt something on my lower stomach and i looked and it was a big spider that fit the description of a hobo spider. i have a few red pimple looking bumps but i pop them and a little pus comes out but when i put pressure on it it feel exactly like a bruise.i was hoping any one had a picture of a hobo spider bite in it’s early stage.
thanx john
Can anybody in Northern California (Sacramento Area) please tell me if they have been bitten by or seen a hobo spider here? I know they aren’t suppossed to be here but we are always told that about brown recluse, too, and I know they are here. My family has been bitten and the symptoms are identicle to the hobo bites descibed here and elsewhere.
I have this enormous bite on my butt that is the size of a nickel and it hurts like no other seriously and I have no clue what it might be … but from what I have seen on this page it seems like it could be one of these spider bites.
I live in alaska, and over the last 10 years i have been searching for more and more information on hobo spiders and recluse spiders in the area. I am wondering tho if there is any research on any anti-venom, or possibal immunity to the hobo’s bite.
I have been bitten numerous times ( lucky me) and had since moved out of the house we lived in because of the spider problem. The new house we live in is having the same spider problems, they get in at ground level and around any windows (second floor included).
Traps seem to work well enough at the ground level, I’m thinking of some sort of sticky tape traps around the outside of the second story windows (no one likes to roll over in bed and get a bite because you smooshed one of these nasty lil buggers). If there’s anyone else out there who has been bitten numerous times I’d love to hear back, perhaps an immunity can be built up and be used to help others in the future.
Till then, i got my newspaper at the ready and my oscar loves to eat the spiders I catch.
The hobo spider can produce some very nasty wounds, amazing!
I did not associate the pain at the back of my head with a spider bite until I found what seemed to be 3 hobo spiders or house spiders within a 2 ft of each other 7 feet away from my bed. Unfortunatly my girlfriend insisted that they must die emmediatly and had a smashing spree, followed by a vacuum.
Now that I’ve read a little about them I know I should have kept one for possible identification. I don’t have medical insurance yet, but it’s painful enough that I’ll take the extra fee’s to get antibiotics if appropriate. I’ll be seeing a doctor in the morning.
A picture of the Hobo Spider Bite on my head is below.
I think my dog got bit by a hobo spider. I’ve been seeing them in my house lately, running along the floor. I know I have some funnel webs in the bushes outside. Anyway, my dog’s face blew up, his eyes were all swollen and his chest got red. There’s still a mark on his chest that now has a scab on it. Any long term effects? I’m worried that his appetite has changed a little since that day.
What may be a hobo spider bite has been diagnosed by my doctor as shingles. could they be similar in appearance?
Well id get a photo of the hobo spider but i cant paste it :/
id like 2 see a photo of a early bite or get info cause we have spotted 2 in 1 day at my house and i think my step sister got bit and others may as well.
Billy,
To send a picture, just send the picture to the email address at the bottom of this page. I’ll clean it up and post it for everyone to see.
Regards,
Jim.
I was bitten in my car while driving back from a vacation around 7000 ft in the Sierras near Tahoe. I managed to flick the spider off of my arm before it could finish (painful) biting but I still have two fang marks about a 16th of an inch long at a 45 degree angle to each other. The spider was about 1/4 inch long with short legs, a stocky body and it was dark colored. It’s been two hours and the site is very slightly numb and very slightly swollen, otherwise I have no symptoms. Does anyone know what kind of spider this might be? Could it be serious?
I also think I have Hobo spiders in my house (I’m not convinced that is what bit me) and I am wondering if they might be a hazard to my cats as well as me. I saw on one site that cats sometimes eat them. I’m thinking of getting traps.
I have an itch on my right leg - outer mid-thigh. It looked like a small 1/32″ dark spot - black head so I popped it and not much of anything came out - sort of like a small pimple. My leg itches and there is a pale redish circle around the area of about 1 1/2″ in diameter with ever so slight swelling. I don’t know the cause but am watching it closely. Any ideas if this could be a spider? Thanks, Bob
Greetings from Ohio. I was cleaning my basement the other day and notice a nice sized spider on the floor, i went to capture it with a mason jar but it was way too quick and went under a shelf. Later I found one in the basement sink, which I was able to catch. I looked it up on the internet and all the caracteristics made me believe it was a hobo spider. I was wondering if there was a good site that could help me get more involved in determining its species. I have numerous of these spiders, inside the basement and I found one on my front porch. I captured it and made an aquarium for it so I could study it. When I was cleaning the basement a found an egg sack attached to the cold water line going to my washtub, but have noticed some small baby spiders that resemble the larger ones. Am I being invaded? Please help me out, in determining what exactly I have in my basement. I could take pics and send them if desired.
Brian
Tallmadge, Ohio
My daughter is 15mo. and lately she’s been getting bit by what we think may be a hobo spider. When the bit first appears it’s just a really red area that doesn’t look like a bit. Then a few days later the redness will go away and a blister that looks like a burn blister will appear and stay until she scrapes it open. After that happens it even looks like a burn blister would look like if it was scraped open. It doesn’t seem to bother her but she’s got quite a few of them. If anyone knows anything about this problem please let me know. Thanks, Kassi
I hope this is just a Hobo spider bite. I have no idea when I got bit because I didn’t feel it. Probably working out in my garage the other day. I estimate this is 24-hours after the bite. No signs of anything at this point except a bit of surface tenderness. Have to see what transpires overnight. Sending pic to your forum for others to see.
Craig in Seattle, WA
If you find out what kind of bite this is, please let me know. I have one just like it, except that you can see 2 identical red “fang” marks in the center of it. No tenderness, swelling or anything else, just the bite.
I have attached some serious photos of my hobo spider bite below. I have been bitten over 13 times now, 3 by the Fiddle herself and the other 10 by the brown, Hobo, and Yellow Recluse. All documented! I do not believe the University’s have accurate knowlege on just how far they have come or just how well they have adapted to our climate.
I have read Fiddleback reports as far as Alaska! Nahomtima L. Tumwater WA
will a hobo spider bite more than once my bite looks simular to the pic that is posted i also have 3 more little bumps all around it
Wow… these last set of pics just tied it up for me…
I was bit on my ankle this past tuesday by something… by today I was at the clinic seeing the doctor because the itch was too much and the wound looked absolutely horrible.
I was told at work (I work at a major garden center here) that we have spider mites but because the wound was bandaged they didn’t see it. The wound looks exactly like the pictures above and is about 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
I live in Greater Vancouver, BC and was wondering if there is any other type of spider that will leave similar symptoms? The other symptoms I was having was slight headaches and being tired… but I chalked that up to being very busy at work. Rarely do I get headaches….
Thanks!
I have been bitten by a brown recluse or a hobo spider several times now.
The first bite was on my jawline… could have been either type of spider, I am not sure as I never saw it… must have been bitten while sleeping.
My stepson got bit about a week prior to my first bite.
The first bite was over the summer. About a week ago.. I had what looked like a tiny bite on my tummy. I didnt mess with it, unti the pressure got to the point that I had to lance it and squeeze the stuff out… it helped a lot…
then a few days later I noticed a bad one ( just like the one on my jaw over the summer) on the inside of my left mid calf. I have been opening it up, draining it and applying antibiotic ointment and a bandage… if I dont keep it moist with the cream and bandaid.. it seems to eat at my skin more and become more sensitive and red.
Now… the new problem…
A couple of days ago.. I noticed what looked like a hard cyst like pimple on my left cheek. I tried to open it up… but nothing came out. Well now, two days later.. it is a big, swollen, hot sore like the bites….and there appears to be two there.
I have seen a bit on recurrent spider bites… is it possible that these few that I have now are a product of the first? Or is it possible that I can have this many bites at once??? leg, tummy, and face…
this is getting really old… I would appreciate and help.
I was bitten by a male hobo spider on the nose, it first look like a pimple then was a blister that just oozed it was swollen so I put apple cider vinagar on it after the blister oozed then put poroxide on it and then made a paste with salt and vinagar and put a bandaid on it, this was while I was at work when I got home I washed the area with soap and water and put epsom salt on the swollen area. I made a paste with water and epsom salt and pressed it up against the area for like 30 minutes, the swelling went away immediately and it now seems to be healing and scabbing over.
I keep neosporin on it in the morning and at night it is still tender around it about the size of a quarter,and is still red, and all the skin is pealing off of my nose. I have noticed since the bite I have this sharp pain go from my nose to above my eyebrow and I am extremely exhausted and have slight joint pains in my arms. The thing I am worried about is that most of the web sites I have reviewed say that these bites can cause bone marrow and renal failure.
I don’t have medical insurance so I have not been to a doctor, but am wondering should I go to the doctor if the wound is seeming to heal, it says that it could take up to a month to 2 years to completely heal. I caught the spider and have it in a zip lock bag, so that I could do research on it. My nose looks like the above picture#2 on #28 and it has been about 2 weeks since the bite.
If you have any information for me please let me know. I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
I live in Idaho and we have seen many hobo spiders in the house. About five weeks ago I woke in the middle of the night with a pain on my leg. When I got up and went in to shower I noticed a large black mark on my leg. I didnt remember anythng that I had done to myself to give me such a bad bruse. It made me suspisious. I went to the doctor and he was stumped. It had started to ooze so he took a culture and it turned out to be a staff infection. I kept it dressed and it took about three weeks to heal. As it healed a white hard spot developed near the center and the skin came off the entire black spot. The spot is still purple and insanely sensitive. I guess my question is about the after effects. I am exausted constantly I cant get compfortable enough to sleep more then three hours at a time. I had horrable head aches the night before it happend. Now it seems my body is overly sensitive and my joints are killing me. How long if it is a hobo spider bite can I expect to experence these symtoms or should I start looking in another direction. could these symptoms be just from the staff infection? The injury site looked exactly like the documented ones on this site. Any possable help would be appriciated.
I think i been getting bit by this hobo spider. iam not sure. but i have a few bites in my tummy area, they look like pimples one day..then they turn into hard blisters that hurt..if i pop them blood and pus come out…it looks like the picture that guy postesd of his head. thats what they look like =/
I live in WI, but was down in La for 4 days. when i got back right away i had three large bruises. one on palm, and other on left between thumb and pointer also the same on the right hand thumb and f finger. it itches and burns blistered up, and i am going on 5 weeks and nothing is getting better.
The doctors here are Not helping me!!!They think i am crazy that it is a spider bite. i also have the small pinhole looking ones all over my body like that one picture of the man in his garage. what do i do?
Headaches vomiting red swollen tongue feet peeling itching wounds still oozing on strong pain meds and that gets me ill to. i have weak knees and joint pain. can someone please help me?
I feel like i am all alone in this battle and scared!
I took pictures of my hands today and will send them as soon as i can get them developed. I also wanted to say that yes the headache is a migrane that never ends and the pain is undescribable that is so bad. I am a dancer, and can’t go back to work till i am better. i need to find out how to clean up these bites and also the little bites like that one man has a pic of. i know this sounds crazy, but toothpaste is known to help dry up infection and heal due to the floride. does anyone think i should try it? i know i keep going on and i am sorry but again i am begging for help here.
jane anne
Hello,
Bellow is a picture of my lower back where as best i can tell I was bit by a Hobo spider. This picture is from the evening of day 5.
I’m really looking for any advice on care and treatment. What if anything can be put on it. Should it be covered washed out. etc,,
The doc I went to did not give my bite a second look before putting me on antibiotics and telling me to apply a hot compress as often as possible, and my favorite part… ‘hope that it does not eat too much tissue away’. I have since read that neither heat nor cold should be applied.
What is the best course of action if your doc is clueless?
Thanks for your help!
That looks really bad and you need to see a doctor now!!! That is the tissue dying and it may need some type of skin Graff if you don’t get it looked at…
If anyone has any feedback about the picture of the man in the garage and his bite with the huge bruise around it, could you please let me know.
I got those after the main ones on my hands that I have told you all about. The doc doesn’t know what this one bulls eye bruise looking one could be and I am sick of hearing “we don’t know” even about the ones I have on my hands that are holes and look all the other pictures here. They are sending me to a dermatologist now to do some kind of biopsy and I don’t want to go threw this…so please any info no matter if it is going to be accurate for me or not I am interested in what you all have to say…
Thank you
Jane
Hello I am just commenting because I was a target for the hobo twice already and my bites (one on the ankle and just about a month ago on my cheek) they both looked like the pictures shown in reply #28 and #37. The thing I found that worked for healing it is just put triple antibiotic ointment on it and let the wound absorb it then apply more, be sure to apply it over the whole affected area not just the tender part. Putting a band aid on it didn’t help mine it made it worse found that out on the 1st one, it got deeper and more dead like looking skin around the affected area. I even found one cleaning caught it and killed it by putting it in a container with a paper towel dipped in nail polish remover or alcohol, it balled up too much though to send any pictures. Well I hope what I have experienced will help others.
Interior of Alaska
I have been reading all the most resent updates on the Hobo/brown recluse bites and I have to tell you it sure does bring back some painful memories, as you have seen from my photos. First let me tell you that most of the time you wont even know until it is too late that you have even been bitten, however I have devised a plan that if you should get to the blister before it breaks.
Make sure to take lots of Caution while tearing off the blister and draining the Poison; for any skin that the poison does touch, trust me will rot it. I did this on a few of them and they healed ten times faster. The first time I came up with the Idea, I took the thought to the Dr. at a local walk in minor emergency clinic and he listened to me and did just what I said. He was shock when he looked at all of my previous bites and trusted I must know what I was talking about after my 11th bite in a yr.
I have some more photos for everyone attached below.
Peace and Prayers to all and God speed in your Healing… From NaHomTima (ChocTaw Native American) “She Who Seeks And Gives” Tumwater WA
4/6/08
Hello to all,
Update,
I have healed up quite well after all my bites last year, and sad to say the scars are pretty bad. So far I have got a Arsenal of spider sprays,traps, and nets to kill any spider I see. I do want everyone to know that, yes spider bites can and will come back again and again for years, but you will know the difference between a re:bite and one that is fresh. Remember also that they are night time hunters and they are all over the USA, including the Greater Alaska.
Do not rely on what the so called spider experts say where the are, as I have found out the hard way with over 11 true bites in a year by both the recluse and the Hobo. Ours are not as large as the one you have seen in the photo submitted by another sender, never the less we have them here in the Pacific NW. We too are not supposed to have the recluse or Black Widow?but yet many here have seen them and been bit by them.
I have been bit. I am submitting more photos some with the webbing that you will want to look for, Hobo webbing. The recluse has numerous varieties and I seem to have attracted them all. Peace and Prayers from NaHomTima L. SAugust234@aol.com
Hello,
I caught the spider (see picture below) in my basement after the laundry tub overflowed. I believe he crawled out of a drain.
I did some research because I have never encountered a spider like this before in southwestern PA, and have come to the conclusion that it is a hobo spider.
I know they are located only in the state of Washington, but everything else seems to fit. Legs are not banded and hairy, no spots under the thorax, pattern on abdomen, and the palps appear to be double-pronged.
Bug spray did not work on him. He died in a jar overnight. Also, I had a wolf spider infestation around Christmas and had the basement exterminated, and this is the first spider I have encountered since.
I am concerned because if a hobo somehow made it into my basement; it is reported to be venomous. Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Heather
oh my goodness look at the picture of Heather’s spider!!!!!!!
IN my experience - treatment for recluse and hobo bites is best done before it has a chance to start rotting from the inside out.
What I use on spider bites (including black widows) is a mix of betonite clay (sold as Aztec Secret) and cider vinegar.
Make this into a paste (it foams up), dab a thick layer onto a bandage and apply. Change when dry. Continue until the swelling and inflammation is gone.
I use this paste for bee stings, wasp and yellow jacket stings, spider bites, tick bites (after tick is removed), mosquito bites and poison oak rashes.
I’ve also used this as a facial “mud pack” for severe acne. Applied to an unbroken, pus filled boil, it will dry and detoxify before treatment is required.
The problem is that it needs to be made up fresh each time you use it - can’t be pre-prepared and sold in tubs or tubes - so it is really too much work for most people, who find it easier to smear a goo from the pharmacy or pop a pill from the doctor.
But it has worked for me and for my family - and for the folks who taught me about it.
The Hobo spider is a harsh little creature. man there are some sickening photos.
One of my good friends had accidentally ate or smashed up a Hobo spider in his mouth, the spider had crawled into one of his cups and when he was taking a drink notice something odd in his mouth and decided to spit it out but it was partly chewed up and smashed. What would you suggest that he do the abdomen of the spider was smashed and it was hard to make out.
Hobo spiders scare the heck outta me…I just freeze in sheer terror when I see one!!! YIKES!!!
Wanted to thank you all for the posts. My family and I live in Penticton, British Columbia Canada. Hot, dry and a perfect place for the Hobo, recluse, widow…… Just recently moved into a basement suit and found the hobo’s all over the place; tub, cupboards, closets.
I am super creeped out but, thanks to fear, I now know more about spiders than someone w/ fear of them should
looks like one of the best things to prevent a bite is too use traps (catchmaster is pretty good) and keep closets and storage areas clean.
I vacuum under my furniture including bed often.We also have no carpet except for the throw in the living room, hardwood everywhere else. Besides this, We try not to leave clothes or other items on the floor for the spiders to camp out or take cover in or under.
I have an almost three year old son and my effort is to protect him. as far as I can tell; these practices seem to be most effective.
A special thank-you to the web developer. Knowing more people have similar encounters really makes it easier to handle knowing you have a recluse or hobo spider problem.
Thank-you again
hi my friend just had a baby and where she lives is infested with hobo spiders from what i hear a hobo spider can kill a child is this true????
One year I got about sixty lesions that match these descriptions and photos. Antibiotics helped temporarily, but as soon as I was off of them, the sores were back. Turns out, they weren’t spider bites; they were boils. I had a mineral deficiency. Once I started taking a vitamin supplement, the boil problem disappeared. But now, twenty years later, if I go months without taking a vitamin supplement, the boil problem starts to reappear. Anyway, my point is, I think it’s important to not just assume you have a spider bite if you haven’t seen the spider, especially if you have multiple lesions. There are other causes of sores like this, and to properly treat the problem, it’s important to consider all potential causes.