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Black Widow Spider Season in Florida

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    Treatment options after being bitten

  • Duration 1:28
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Jennifer Wilson is quick to show with the bite on her throat if it's a really hard love.

Faces where it starts this -- farm.

Four nights ago it was even bigger than this the size of a lot festering and painful in the overnight I couldn't -- -- could swallow and had a good emergency room.

It was like I'd swallow the landing it has swollen up so -- it happened about three hours earlier as she -- out under some trees talking to a few Pelz and like she's talking in the right now.

Doctors had to cut open and -- drain and -- Jennifer intravenously for two days with penicillin and antibiotics.

It's an experience Jennifer will never forget.

She's now learned about 1 of Central Florida is dangerous elements of black widow and she -- carefully now wherever she -- No for the red or orange hourglass shape on -- underbelly they hang out around wooden debris piles under -- leaks.

You can find them under stones and hollow stumps and other secluded areas.

There we couldn't find any out and about tonight to be -- just like these other species the widow is here and this time of year.

With a stronger breezes are more likely to fall out of -- -- and on do you.

Or Jennifer.

Very nervous and it deja -- yeah.

But even though I didn't see the first one but after the doctor telling me that they are dropping out of the trees because the change in weather pattern real education.

They'll sign you real quick the hard way.

I'm house -- -- are pretty serious.

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