Forget Black Widows, the brown recluse will seriously screw your day. Lucky for us, we have both in North Carolina, everywhere.
In Florida, so far, only bugs which have bitten me are fire ants. They are all over my yard, and when I moved here, I was not aware of them. Now I wont work in yard without long boots and gloves. Their bites are itchy for couple of days, then day 3 through 7, blisters form and itch even more.
I pop them as soon as I see them and apply hydrogen peroxide 3 or 4 times every day and then they heal in a couple of days. Antibiotic ointment does not work. peroxide works great.
We are not as bad as Australia their spiders kill you. But, black widows are a bitch. Killed a few last year. People kill the Black Dauber mud wasps because they are afraid of wasps. The Mud Wasp rarely stings and eats spiders. Lots of spiders. I leave them be especially in my deer stand. More mud wasps fewer spiders.
This is why I live in the tundra, more or less.
“Forget Black Widows, the brown recluse will seriously screw your day. Lucky for us, we have both in North Carolina, everywhere.”
They’re everywhere in Tennessee. I used to be a plumber and had to crawl under houses with no basement. That was before I learned about the Brown Recluse.