fwdoz said:
If it was one of those white tip spiders, they are quite painful & swell up.
Hope it goes down quickly for you Goody
I just saw this and was reading the replies and you beat me to it, but it could be a number of others too.
White tail spiders roam all around the place, they will cause necrosis in some cases, but it depends on what bacteria is on their fangs.
Where there is one, there will be many others, either a pro pest controller treating the house or insect bomb the daylights out of each room would be in order.
Put a few up in the roof and under the house as well as that's where they breed.
Redbacks rarely venture inside and live with their web trapping prey, what got you is a "ground spider" class or "roaming spider" which the white tail is in.
Insects are *******s, I had a nasty bite on my calf that didn't heal for about 5 years.
Check your bedding beforehand, lots of mums have told me they found white tails in their kids beds or chest of draws in clothing etc, they just love to roam all over.
BTW when you use an insect bomb, they will kill on contact any insects it comes into contact with, but it will have no residual or lasting effect. What a pest controller will use will have a residual effect, ie if in a few months something crawls over a treated area it will kill them, not instantly, but it will kill them.