Spiders get a bum rap for bites that other arachnids inflicted. Most doctor-diagnosed "spider bites" are from mites, lice, ticks, or bed bugs. Spiders are considered beneficial, unless they are leaving web strings where you walk into them with your face, or they are turning your house into the set for a hollo'een movie.
They are generally easy to kill when necessary, and we like to take the webs down when we treat.
There are two types of spider in Kentucky which create problems when they bite, the black widow spider (really hurts) and the brown recluse spider (you will probably need a skin graft), the widow showing up outside, and the recluse showing up inside. Neither transmits disease.
Fowl mites do transmit disease from the birds they left before they found you. Our experience has been that most "spider bites" are actually from these mites, and there is a recently vacated bird nest, or a dead bird, in the near vacinity.
The pattern of the bites is a good clue. Give us a call.
They like to live under basketball goal bases...
...or in a window well.
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