What Bit Me? Spider and Bite ID Guide

If you are here, you are probably trying to figure out what bit you, what it looks like, and where to start.

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The best next step is to compare what you are seeing against the site’s strongest pages, built from 16 years of real visitor photos and bite reports.

• Spider Bite Pictures: Start here if you want to compare your bite to real visitor-submitted photos by type and healing stage.
• Help Identify a Spider Bite: Read visitor bite reports and comments when you want to compare symptoms and see what other people noticed.
• Spider Identification Guide: Use this if you found the spider and want to narrow it down by color, shape, size, and markings.
• Brown Recluse Spider Bite: Go here if you are worried about tissue damage, a worsening wound, or the bite people fear most.
• Black Widow Spider: Go here if the bite comes with severe pain, cramping, or the other spider bite people ask about most.

If the bite looks severe, is spreading, or comes with symptoms beyond local pain and swelling, see a doctor.