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I'm proud of my fellow arachnophobic people for making it through this video, too! Especially you, Adam, for having to watch it and then rewatch it repeatedly in editing!! We salute you, good sir!!

I hate that feeling of having things crawling all over me, and it's worse when you think it's a spider. We all feel your pain Adam. But you are strong, and shall endure!

I often go hiking and get webbed in the face or get web strands wrapped around my limbs all the time. I usually have a jumping spider that lives in my bedroom window too.

My grandpa got bitten by a brown recluse spider once (it fell into his face when he'd climbed up to clean the gutters) and while he recovered, it legit looked like he'd been hit by a car for a couple weeks after.

Florida resident here. Never ever heard of the Red Widow before this video. I've only seen a few Black Widows in my life, maybe 5. However, at every apartment and house I have had, the garages and porches have been chock full of brown widows. Brown Recluses tend to hide in shoes, then bite because they get stepped on.

16:19 Those are "Writing spiders." They exist in Georgia, too. You can spot them, other than their huge size, because they "write" a little zig-zag in their webs. We also have Orb spiders who build webs near the porch and other outdoor lights so they can catch bugs. Those are kind enough to take down their webs every morning, then rebuild every night. As long as you're not headed outside late late at night, you won't even see the web during normal hours. Pretty sure they're harmless to people, and like I said, they're experts at catching bugs. We named one "Orby," and last year we had "Fred." Leave 'em alone and let them catch the itchy bugs.

When I lived on military housing, our apartment was infested with Brown Recluses, to the point that an exterminator had to come in, remove all of the light switch and outlet covers and spray inside of the walls. I found one walking across the floor that was so big, when I picked it up with a fork (after killing it with spider spray), the legs wrapped around and under the tines of the fork and overlapped. It was awesome. I now live in Southern California and the Western Black Widow is basically everywhere. If you use a propane torch to kill them, they sort of pop. Also, there's probably a spider crawling on your back as you're reading this.

I saw the title and thought "Oh Adam is not gonna have a good day" I had to kill a black widow at my first job. Came up from texas in a shipment of beehives and I was cleaning the wax off of the lids and I flipped a lid around and there she was. I'm not afraid of spiders or anything, but dude, PLEASE STOP PICKING UP THE VENOMOUS SPIDERS!! I'm getting second-hand anxiety here.

It's like Steve Irwin "oh look, a gator, one of the most lethal creatures... I'm gonna touch it" 😂😂😂😂😂

My mother was in college for her RN license and one of the assignments in speech was to demonstrate something that you liked. One of the girls brought her huge pet tarantula to talk about. Some of the kids had to leave the classroom and even the teacher (who was deathly afraid of spiders) got as far from the presentation area as possible.

Went to bed and opened my window for fresh air. When I woke up, I went to close it and the first Black Widow I've ever seen had built its web just on the other side of the screen behind my head. That is why Americans have screens on their windows. If it wasn't there, Black Widow may have been setting up shop in our bedroom.

I do nature photography and those yellow big spiders (Orbweavers) are incredibly calm. They will not bite you. They will not bolt. They just sit there waiting for bugs to fly into their webs. They are very easy to be around. They dont want to crawl on you. They want to completely ignore you. Weavers and Jumpers are 2 of my favorite creatures to photograph. I love them.

Haven't started the video yet. I know from some previous videos how scared of spiders you are, and the fact that you're doing this for our enjoyment is commendable. The only way you're going to overcome your phobia is to face it head on and what better way than with support. Some people know how to handle venomous animals. I've carried an picked up multiple venomous spiders and snakes. The key is to not stress out the animal. Like a spider crawling on you, unless you intentionally mess with it, you're more than likely not going to get bit.

When I was a kid, I went with my grandparents to visit their friends in Nashville, Tennessee. I was running through the back garden and stopped right before I ran into a giant web bigger than me. In the middle of it was a green and yellow spider that was 1/2 the size of my head. I almost fainted looking at it. I don't think that I will ever forget that horrifying spider.

I was bitten by a brown recluse. Extremely painful, difficulty moving my leg bc of the pain. The initial site became neurotic & the core had to be removed. But there's so much that it's to painful to t take it out @ 1 time. It metastasized & caused another rupture right next to the initial site. It left 2 scars & took about 3 months to finally heal. When it becomes necrotic, the skin around the site is dead so it has to be removed by a very thin, sharp scalpel. Numbing the area didn't work bc of so much damage & infection. Outward from the area I developed inflammation to most of my thigh. Nothing stopped the pain. It was a long, painful 3 months. So always ck your shoes & socks b4 & after you've been in the yard. They don't mind hanging out in your home. Be very, very careful. It was sm but packed a huge punch. All better but very leary. Have a good one & remember to be careful in your home

You'd 💩 yourself if you saw my pet tarantula I have. He's just an 8-legged puppy. 🤣

If you want to fully explore our arachnids, we also have scorpions.

Here's a cool thing about what you said at 13:20 about size. The bigger the arachnid, often the less toxic because it's using it's (relative to other arachnids mind you) larger size and larger fangs to damage its prey. Look at your favorite fantasy video game. Assassins with smaller daggers use poison, the barbarian or the knight with the big axe or sword doesn't need the help, their natural weapons do the work. That's why the vast majority of tarantulas are harmless to humans. Their increased size and strength and larger fangs do the job just fine. Scorpions with bigger claws tend to be less venomous because they outmuscle their prey, the sting is the secondary weapon. Smaller scorpions or ones with big fat tails (ei the Fat Tailed Scorpions) use those tails and their venom glands much more. Size is a wierd reverse concept when it comes to venomous animals.

I've lived in AZ most of my 60 years. I've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild, seen very few scorpions, a few Brown recluse (aggressive little fuckers) and tons of black widows, mostly in the warmer months. I HATE SPIDERS but have never been bitten. Knock on wood!

I feel the same as you Adam about spiders, but I laughed until the tears started. Congratulations on getting through the video with no nightmares, I hope. 😖

"Mental bastard" 😂

I’m from North Carolina, I’ve seen plenty of black widows, never bitten. A friend of mine found a hole in the yard of a dog she was pet sitting, it was full of black widows. The home owner burned them out I believe. My aunt was bitten by a brown recluse, she wad laid up for a few months. Pain, swelling, bite site became a sore.

I got bit by a brown recluse in my buttcheek during the army... Didn't even know until it swelled up, had to have surgery,and the spider laid eggs inside my arse cheek.. Surgery took a few hrs to remove the eggs and they couldn't stitch it up.. So I had to back every few days to get it cleaned out and packed w gauze...

Never had too much issues with spiders myself, but I get it. The large female Black and Yellow Garden Spiders I'd find in my grandpa's field are probably the scariest looking we get here, but not dangerous, and pretty docile.

In Oregon, there's a relatively newly discovered venomous spider in the last decade or so, the Purple NW Orb Weaver, or that's what it was being called last time I read about it. It has intricate markings that, to me, resemble a ringed octopus, but are more ornate. The venom is supposedly comparable to the Brown Recluse, Fiddlebacks, which I have also seen here, though they aren't supposed to be here. There are Black Widows in my building, and I have seen babies in my apartment. I have been bitten before, on my shin. The venom turned the area necrotic, and the effect let a webwork of invasive bacteria spread across my leg. The doctor didn't believe it had started from a bite (which was very clear early on), and insisted on treating me for MRSA. The venom killed area did not respond to antibiotics, of course, and so they were lining me up for deciding between amputation and chemotherapy. Amazingly (LOL), after three days, the central area started to get better on its own, never responding to the vancomycin, but they considered it miraculous. Without antibiotics the necrosis probably would have continued to spread. But the initial issue was the spider venom, that they wouldn't believe and wouldn't take into consideration, even when I showed them pictures of the spiders in my place. I worry about my cat, but mostly I don't worry. I found a Hobo spider behind my dresser once that was bigger across than my hand, the body as big as my pinky. It turned, looked up at me, reared up its front legs, made eye contact and hissed at me. I was amazed that it clocked the larger world and was so aggressive. I slapped a jar over it and took it outside. But I never figured out what it had been eating to get so big.

When I was taking care of dad's house in Huntington Beach, CA, there were brown widows everywhere, and I also came across one black widow.

The spider video is from KZfaq channel MyWildBackyard! He's a wonderful educator and has many more videos worth watching. 👍

I hate spiders too. My husband and I encountered a brown recluse in a cabin we were staying in and I was like F this I’m sleeping in the car! Even he was unsettled and he’s my personal spider exterminator. He gets so annoyed with me freaking out over spiders because a freeze and yell at him to come rescue me lol One night he was already comfy in bed and I saw one and I of course freaked out and asked him to kill it and he wouldn’t get out of the bed and kept telling me to just kill it and was saying you are bigger than the spider! I then began begging him and told him it was coming closer to me. He still refused to so I resorted to a threat. I said, “ Nick, if I lose sight of this spider I won’t sleep tonight and neither will you!” He immediately got up and killed it 😂 He knew what he was getting in to when he married me lol We lived together for 5 years before we got married.

I know someone who was bit on the leg by a brown recluse and it landed him in the hospital with a baseball size ulcer that made a deep hole in his calf.

I live outside Atlanta Georgia and have seen over 100 Black widows. My mom was bitten when one was hiding in her shoe. I beat on that shoe for a long long while to see what was there and a juvenile black widow fell out. She had cramps in her legs for 3 weeks. I was told if they bite above the waist, your heart could have trouble.

My next door neighbor was bitten by a brown recluse and passed away due to complications from the venom. 70+ year old diabetic, hep C, wheelchair bound. Was bitten on the leg, infection set in, along with necrosis. Had the leg amputated, but passed away due to the infection damaging his kidneys and other vital organs. Pretty scary on their own, but with compromised immune systems its usually a death sentence. This happened in Southern California.

My biology teacher used to keep his pet tarantula in a large glass tank in our classroom. I didn't mind as long as he stayed in his habitat.

Aww shoot...I have 26 tarantulas in my bedroom alone with many more all throughout my home including black widows, a brown recluse, and a 6 eyed sand spider. That scene from Australia where everything is covered with webs and millions of spiders is a dream to me

Black widow bites are wildly overblown. I used to raise them for a local venom research lab, as a side hustle. I've been bit a ton, and honestly, unless you're a baby or have a compromised immune system, it's an afternoon of aching muscles and a little vomiting. I've had worse experiences eating seafood. Lol

I used to be a paramedic in Iowa for about a decade. I've only seen less than 10 suspected brown recluse bites and only 2-3 confirmed bites that caused significant tissue necrosis. One was a guy I went to college with and we asked why he had a 4x4 gause pad medical taped to his face and he simply said "recluse bite" and my reply was "Sweet! We get to watch half of your face sluff off!". He wasn't amused. He let me look at it and I was very impressed by the necrosis it has caused. Fortunately for him the would was already started to close off the hole where the dead tissue was excised in the hospital ER. The hole in his cheek was about the size of a 50 cent piece and about half an inch deep.

12:12 The brown recluse is also known as the violin spider. You can see the violin shape on its cephalothorax.

My mother was the victim of a brown recluse bite back in the late 1980s. It was something she never really got over. She was left with lifelong issues in the bite area as the site got necrotic and it became an open wound that was literally just rotting away the flesh. After probably 20 years of treating this wound, it finally healed up enough that it stopped growing and killing surround tissue. She never stopped doing her thing and working 12-16 hours a day on her feet as a barber with this open necrotic hole in her ankle but it did leave her with some nerve damage that she never recovered from.

I've been bit twice by Black widows once on the arm and didn't have to bad symptoms. I got bit between the shoulder blades that one made me feel like I was having a heart attack for 3 days all my muscles were sore it wasn't fun, but I got over it. You could see the fang holes and they were full of puss, it swelled up and had a big red patch on my back. It also left a scare.

In Colorado we have had some huge black widow seasons. I live next to a creek and have found several webs and egg saks on my patio. Use vinegar to dissolve them because they are tough and super sticky to get rid of. I am terrified of them.

we have DOZENS of big yellow orb-weavers outside our house every year, growing up I used to feed them crickets lol. never feared a bite unless I accidentally walked into a web but even then they'll usually move away from you. it's the brown recluses we have to watch out for, they like to sneak into your house and hide in your clothes piles.

Bless you, brave boy! 🙏🏽

loving the switchup of vids lately. great choices

When I was 4 years old, I couldn't get out of my outdoor playhouse because a brown recluse spider was blocking the door. I screamed, and my mother and grandfather came outside to lift the playhouse up so I could get out. I'm so grateful I didn't get bitten...

Much respect for facing your fear of spiders. I remember when I lived out in the country in Texas, I would always come across black widows and wolf spiders. Once I picked up a black widow with a stick to get an up close look, but would never let it on my hand like the dude in the video. Enjoyed your reaction. 🤟

We have the large black and yellow Orb Weaver 3:41 here in Georgia. We call them banana spiders. Despite their size, they are not dangerous, although they can leave a nasty bite. Some here have laid eggs the size of ping pong balls and have been known to catch tiny snakes or hummingbirds in their webs.

Now in Texas we basically have a bunch of web spinners/builders and the big tarantulas..... It's orb weaver season now we'll be seeing them til winter hits again. Also tarantula mating season so we should see a few of them next couple months as well. Hopefully I can catch one or a few.....

I once had a bit of an allergic reaction to a bite from what we believe was a large wolf spider. I had a lump roughly the size of a softball in the front of my upper thigh for over a month with 2 large gaping holes that wouldn't close. It stands out in my memory because I remember still having it when I went to OzFest later that summer and I was bummed that I had to wear long pants to hide it.

Black Widows love cold Damp places. I was grabbing 2x4’s out from underneath a cover and nearly squeezed 2 Black Widows in my hand on two separate Occasions. I can attest to it is always best to be careful reaching under stuff needless to say I always use a Hammer to lift anything up thats been on the wet damp ground.

Just this morning here in the San Joaquin Valley of California I went out to start a load of laundry and about a 3/4 grown lady black widow spider with her little red hourglass on her undercarriage was dangling from the ceiling of the garage about 1 foot above the washer. She wasn't there yesterday morning. Um, what to do. I opened the near side garage door that opened to the side garden. Checked out her hanging web which looked substantial. Put on a leather gardening glove. Reached out and grabbed the hanging web and swung her out the door then stomped her gone with my sandaled foot. These will be around now through to near freeze time in late November. It's quite an experience.

I've seen a few black widows in my lifetime..... but we once had a brown recluse infestation in our house once..... crazy.... none of us got bitten thankfully!!

The place I worked at in North alabama was crawling with black widow spiders. We used to catch them and put them in empty water bottles to scare the girls.

I actually sang at a funeral for someone who died from a black widow bite. She had been working in the yard and felt something like a bite or sting but didn't see anything. She was very ill and within days they realized she had been bitten and it was too late.

He also didn't tell you the brown recluse has a violin shape on it so you can tell it from a regular wood spider, just like the black widow has an hour glass the brown recluse has a violin on it!

He thinks an average day in America is just a spider building a web on you lol

Only run in with a brown recluse I've had was at boot camp (military training). It had made its web in one of the urinals... we all stayed far away from it lmao. Loving your videos btw man! Keep it up!

There were black widow spiders near the pool at my grandparents' house in Arizona. Even found them in closets on occasion.

This video was probably the one I wanted to see most! Next up has to be the most venomous spiders in Australia! Some incredible beasts down under!

You would'nt like the orb spider that I met a couple years ago when she decided to use my main door as a place for her web. About a 2 inch black and bright yellow body sitting in the center of a beautiful orb web right at face level. Glad i was not in a hurry that morning. Beautiful but not poisonous to humans.

The video this is from is My Wild Backyard. The dude's name is Spencer. He has amazing wildlife content

I’ve only seen one brown recluse and one black widow. Don’t want to see anymore. Yeah it’s hard to watch them crawl on him. Never seen a poisonous snake around and I’m thankful.

He’s holding them all cause he was trained how to move with them on his body. Arachnid experts are taught to make slow and very very subtle movements when dealing with spiders, the generally dont care and wont attack but if you make ecstatic and jittery movements itll cause them to get scared and bite

that one spider with the yellow belly is a garden spider.. i have them in my garden,, they are beautiful.. they keep down the pests in the garden.. along with the praying matis.. they are beautiful too..

The look of absolute disgust on your face during this video… priceless!! 😂

I was bit 3 times in total by a young brown recluse and the bites itched, they welted and spread. I went to the ER and they just said to put antibiotic cream on them and monitor. 4 days later they looked like bruises, and I was feeling very weak and had chills. Went back to the ER and they said they were definitely brown recluse bites, and I were infected. I went on a wide range antibiotic for 10 days. I healed but was feeling sick for about a month. We found out later there was a nest of them under my porch chair.

I always wondered how people can ignore their natural instinct to stay away from spiders.

Love Black Widow spiders. There were a lot in my parents basement growing up. Loved to keep them in jars and feed them crickets

Bites tend to be on the arms or legs so if your ever in the area of these kinds of threats, it's more knowing where not to be and having good pants/boots that kinda seal. Heard a good story of a cave diver who went into an unknown cave, about halfway down, rappelling, he felt something off then started to see all the black widows. It was a den and he couldn't get at what he needed to go back up the rope, so he had to descend with these things crawling down the rope, all over the walls, dropping on him. He somehow managed to get out without a bite. Also if your out for a bit, you might relax and take your boots off for a bit, always check them before you put them on. 2nd it's always the small ones that are the most venomous, if something big bites you it's probably fine. But if something small bites you don't keep it to yourself cause it needs to be dealt with quick.

I laid my arm down in a nest of them (recluse) crawling in a garage. Had 12 "zits" afterwards that ladted for years but it never went necrotic. Just clean the wounds in a few years they go away.

Congrats Adam, you made it through the video way better than I did, Had the left side of my screen covered..... So I applaud you 👏👏Massive W

When I lived in Cali we had black widows and brown widows everywhere anything that sits outside to long they like to hide. I got bitten once at 16 years old on my bicep, three days of nausea and arm was stiff as a rock

There are people who "milk" spiders just like snakes for their venom. Even here in the upper midwest Wisconsin brown recluse live here, in wood piles and brush.

Look up a Huntsman or Wolf Spider (or don't, they are nightmare fuel). We had them in the house I grew up in in Florida. Size of dinner plates. Luckily, they didn't come around much. My mother tells a story when I was an infant, she a new mother, as she walked down the hall to my nursery to check on me one night. She could HEAR the spider walking along the wall before she saw it. She screamed and grabbed the vacuum cleaner. There's a bit of a superstition that you aren't to kill those "House Mother" spiders. So she vacuumed it up. Killed the spider AND the vacuum cleaner. Oh well. I'm just glad I was too young to remember it.

Oh Adam…. I love your reactions. Look, I’ve lived in Las Vegas for over 40 years. You’re coming here next April?? Besides the snakes… I have had personal experiences with a wolf Spider that jumped at me and fought bravely for his life, several scorpions, one that was the size of a muffin, three others that fell through my air conditioning vents, and mostly, female black widows. A few i😢rescued most I killed. ENJOY YOUR STAY, my friend.

Bravo, Adam! You got through it. Here's praying none of us have to meet any of them, any time soon. At least you don't have to deal with them where you live. Peace

10:20 I used to live in a house that had a brown recluse spider infestation. I don't think we ever got bit. And if we did, the bite only got super big like quarter sized for a of couple weeks. I think we must've gotten a sort of immunity to it.

Dude I was right there with you my anxiety over spiders was at a 10. I found a brown recluse in my bed one night, I slept on the couch for a month😂

I tend to use a Barbecue lighter and a can of paint, it works very well, when they are outside. In the house I use my airsoft pistol at 395fps. It works well.

You're very brave to do this. It's been very entertaining watching you react. Thank you.

I know a man his name is Dean who got bit by a brown recluse and had to retire from the army, he has a huge scar on his leg where they surgically had to remove rotten skin and muscle from his leg. $0 years later hwe still has neuroligical problems and is disabled from this spider bite! I also have 3 children who were bit by a brown recluse but thankfully I took them to the ER and they received antibiotics and treatment before it damaged them. Where it bites you it starts spreading out royying the area and makes like a bullseye and keeps spreading and if not treated you'll end up like my friend Dean or in some cases an amputated limb or death from gang green!

Thanks, Adam, for being such a good sport about doing this one.

I actually currently am healing from a brown recluse bite. It ate a hole out of my left hip because as said in the video, the bite got infected by a MRSA staph infection and started necrotizing the flesh

Should react to the biggest spiders next lmao

Spiders use venom to attack prey and it takes a lot of energy to produce venom. Most spiders only waste that venom by biting things they can’t eat (like humans) as an involuntary reflex if they think they are being crushed.

I live in Florida Adam, you can understand how frickin terrified I am. On the wall down the street, there are black widows and brown recluses, I hate it!

Arachnophobia suffer here. I live in Georgia (USA) and I hate spiders. Working outside yesterday a brown recluse jumped at me. I almost threw up and 100% had to hug my husband. I have been bit by a few different spiders and currently have a spider bite on my thigh. Hurts like hell. One of the scariest looking spiders in Ga is actually not dangerous. Garden spiders can get huge and look so scary. They also make crazy big webs with a zig zag down the middle.

My dad, brother and I have all been bitten by a Brown Recluse and all recovered with no lasting effects. My dads hand was hard to use, my brother hand swelled up with a puss core forming and part of my hand swelled up. We lived in Florida.

Before you go thinking those three pairs of boots will protect you, just remember. Spiders also like setting up shop in boots.

I was born & raised in Central FL & I’ve never run across any of these snakes & I hung out in places like you saw. You don’t bother them they won’t bother you. ❤❤❤ Ok the brown recuse is ALL around. I’ve been bit & know lots of people they’ve been bit & we’re all fine. You feel the bite and within 6 hours you know if you need to go to the ER or not.

Was cleaning out my grow tent yesterday went to move the grow bags had a brown recluse walk right on my hand

😂 the Florida wandering spider my guess the reason why it's got four low beams is its eyes on the bottom

I have widows in my side yard. I encounter one hiding in a cardboard box that I was going to rip up and recycle. I saw it ran inside put on boots and started jumping on the box.

My dad was bit in both his spine and forehead by 2 separate brown recluses. Both were planted. since those spiders were not native to where we lived. the venom messed up his spine and teeth.

These frickign spiders completely surround me, I’m always on watch! Like a spy

I got bit by a brown recluse once on my ankle. It turned purple swelled up and I couldn’t put any weight on that leg for over a week

I got bit by a brown recluse while working out in the field behind our house. I have a inch long scar from having to get the infected tissue removed.

I’m impressed with your courage

The largest true spider in North America is the Carolina Wolf Spider. They're 3-5x the size of their cousins, the Rabid Wolf Spider, which is roughly the same size of, and is visually similar to the American grass spider.

Have you seen that pit viper native to Iran? It has a tail that resembles a spider to lure birds so it can have a meal.

I got bit on the palm of my hand by a brown recluse many years ago. For several months, the skin would itch and then flake off. It spread from the palm of my had all the way around to the back of the hand, but I was very lucky that it didn't totally necrotize (I could have lost my hand if it did). Every once in awhile, still (after more than 8 years), that spot will get itchy and little flakey. Did I mention I really hate spiders now?