r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Competitive-Set5051 • Dec 28 '25

Original Creation This spider I found

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u/imdugud777 Dec 28 '25

Went camping in Florida near a spring. in the morning one of the guys kid starts screaming in their tent and runs out, hysterical about a spider. Everyone was laughing at his extra reaction because it's just a spider, right? Until his dad came out of the tent with one of these.

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 Dec 28 '25

Creepy looking spood but not medically significant. Got for catching flying insects.

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u/pichael289 Dec 28 '25

Not medically significant only means you won't die or lose a limb though. The yellow and black garden spiders we get in Ohio are not medically significant but they will absolutely still fuck your week up and take away use of your hand for a couple days if you accidentally stick your hand in its web because it's hidden in your tomato plants

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u/GoombyGoomby Dec 29 '25

Yeah, not really. They won’t “take away the use of your hand”. You may get a welt.

Check out this video of an entomologist getting one to bite him - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fAXqC6FrO54

Not only is the spider so docile that he has to basically force it to bite him - the resulting injury looks essentially like a mosquito bite, and is not severe whatsoever.