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Archive of entries posted on August 2009

Scorpion Bites, Spider Bites and Symptoms

Treat scorpion stings as you would a black widow bite. A black widow spider can be recognized by a distinctive red hourglass on its stomach. Only the female spider bites, not the male and it has a toxic venom. In the beginning pain is not so severe, but as with the scorpion sting severe local [...]

The Black Widow Spider

So many people are afraid of the ‘dreaded’ black widow spider and its venom Black widow spiders strike fear in the hearts of many people around the world Many people are fearful of all spiders because they don’t know how to identify one species of spider from another. By educating yourself on how to identify [...]