[BillaryBeGone]

Come on!!!!! Those are pics of a particularly **nasty** reaction. I've lived in the South since 1977 and have seen more than several "bite sites" (years of working in an ER can do that). Never saw anything THAT bad!

[WVNan]

That's what I thought too. I grew up in the south and I was bitten as a teenager. The poison apparently got into my blood and I broke out in sores in several places from the initial bite. The doc back then just painted them with Jension (sp) Violet. It took me most of summer to get rid of them and they were painful, but we didn't think much about it at the time. In 92, I was bitten by one after we moved into a house that had been empty for some time. Again, after the initial sore I broke out in other places. I guess I'm not violently affected by them, and I never knew anyone else who was. We were always taught to beware of black widow spiders. The little brown ones were no big deal.