It’s not really being ‘bitten’... but rather ‘toed’ X 100. Or however many they land on you. We have them in Centex, more colorful, which cause hallucinations and permanent scars for each ‘toebite’.
All we have here is the occasional scorpion and coral snake, plus rattlers, copperheads, cottonmouths and alligators and bears and panthers and...............