This blog is dedicated to providing information on spiders and spider bites to help inform the home owner.
My wife is a nurse and so often she sees a patient with a odd mark who believes it is a spider bite. The patient then wants to know if it is dangerous and what kind of spider the doctor thinks it is.
I get the same calls and we both feel this blog is necessary to help people understand what they are dealing with.
A spider does not bite at random. And despite what so many people think, spiders are not out to get you. They are simply a very aggressive predator with fangs to inject their prey with different types of toxins designed to immobilize and digest their prey externally. That definition probably didn't make you feel any more comfortable about them but it's their simple ecological job.
Without spiders, insects would destroy our world. Thousands of spiders live in your yard, garden, flowers, killing insects that would devastate your plant. So they are very important in our worlds. That world does not include the inside of our home though. But outside they have a very important job to do.
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