My headache is gone, lasted 5 days, the pain of the bite is now gone as well.

Lesion ulcerated 3 days ago, and I have a hard scab surrounded by red, peeling skin. I have submitted a fuzzy picture, but you can get the idea of what an un-infected spider bites looks like.

An exterminator is coming to spray our home for spiders next week. I can’t wait.

I wanted to correct a post made on here regarding spiders “drinking from our noses at night when we are asleep” and the human transmitting staph from their nose to the spider’s fangs. This is false information. Staph infections in a bite, which seems to be the case with most of these pictures on here, comes from scratching the bite or touching it with staph on the finger, or having pre-existing staph on the skin surface which is pushed deep into the dermis during the bite. It is important to seek medical attention immediately if you suspect the wound is infected or has pus. According to several reputable medical sources, all instances of surgery required for these bites is due to the victim refusing to seek medical treatment until the bite became so infected they required help. Getting help at the first sign of infection is critical.

Suffering from severe, lifelong arachnophobia, I instinctively check the entire home daily for spiders or anything that could attract spiders. Found nothing.

While moving, a small hole was made in our dining room wall, adjacent to our kitchen. I planned to patch it up later.

A few days after the hole in the wall, I started painting the kitchen, and unscrewed the outlet/light switch covers. I started screaming when I saw the corpses of 3 hobos and a live hobo in one of the electrical outlets. My husband was gone so it was up to me to get the courage to kill it. I sprayed the outlet with so much bleach that it starting crackling, and the hobo came running out and I squished it. Shaking, I checked the rest of the outlets in the kitchen to be sure no more spiders. Too scared to check the rest, I put the child safety plastic outlet covers on each and every outlet in the house.

A few nights later, I came down with severe body aches like the flu, so bad I had to lay down on the floor, couldnt make it to my bed. I took tyelonol and about an hour later checked my temp and it was 99.8 which is high for being on Tylenol as it is a fever reducer. All of my joints ached and my head hurt. Noticed a medium sized “mosquito bite” on my shoulder. Showed it to my husband who declared it was acne. I have never had body acne in my life and rarely get acne on my face, I knew it was not acne. It was red, the center had a tiny teeny black dot, so small my husband said he couldn’t see it, but in the right lighting I could definitely make it out.

2 nights later I saw two very tiny black spiders on our stairs. Where the heck were they coming from?

Felt better the next day, no aches or fever. It has been 6 days since the bite and my head has ached every day. The bite hurts so bad, way worse than a pimple, I mean it feels horribly bruised. last night I tried to squeeze the bite and water came out first, followed by a tiny hard yellow plug, and then I started to think, oh maybe it was acne. But no, I squeezed again and blood came out of 2 dots next to each other, the fang impressions. Then, a bit of dry skin peeled off. I have no ulcer, but the skin is lighter in the middle, it hurts very badly to the touch, and is bright red the size of a nickel. I squeezed and more water came out. I have been spraying it with Bactine and applying Aquafor to it.

I realized that spiders live in walls, and they had come in thru the hole made in our dining room. I immediately spackled the wall up and spackled any holes I found in walls, I even saw a spider retreat into a hole in my 1-year old daughter’s ceiling above her crib! I patched that up too. I also have used duct tape to tape off our garage door as it is lacking a tight weather strip seal. I also have sprayed lemon pledge on every surface in our home, even outside. I heard spiders hate the taste of lemon pledge. I have not seen a spider since I have done all of these precautions.

I am convinced a hobo came into my home thru the hole in the dining room wall, and got into my robe which i hang up. It also might have been in my bed, but I check my bed at night, so I am convinced it was from putting my robe on.

I hope my bite heals, it is not as bad as the bite pictures on here, I think the spider only partially invenomated me, but the pain is bad and my headache will not go away. i will see a dr next week if it does not heal up.

With a magnifying glass, you’ll see two small holes, one larger than the other and no matter how small….they are very painful. Sometimes the fang is left inside with the poison sac still attached.

They DO attack…I’ve watched them cross a room to where I was sitting and they do climb up to my loft and weave funnels in the ceiling. I was sick all the time but couldn’t afford to move and my doctor kept telling me they must be ticks cause spiders don’t bite people like that. Ha. Since I could not sell the house…I got a bug net over the bed….has saved my life.

This is how I have gotten rid of the hobo spiders-
Only kill hobo spiders, do not kill the competing good spiders, they often eat baby hobos and they compete with the hobo for their food source (bugs). I got chickens. Four of them. They are a great, chemical free way to rid your yard of bugs and spiders. Although, the chicken coop and set-up does cost a bit. Make sure your basement windows and walls are sealed well. And if your dryer has a vent that goes to the outside, put some kind of screen on that too. Lastly, I have been aware when working in the yard.

I know exactly where they like to live and what they look like. I love gardening and so, I ran into one every few days during the summer months. They love to live under rocks, bricks, flower pots, wood piles etc. I have killed approximately 30 big ones, with the end of a shovel, throughout the spring/summer. I have not encountered any hobos in the basement anymore and I have not found anymore around the house. Good luck and use cation, but don’t let fear of the hobo spider keep you up at night.