Ms Perez was waiting at Amarillo airport with her boyfriend Eric and his mother on September 20 and suddenly, while inside, Perez felt something stinging the back of her neck.‘I felt a nasty pinch when I touched my neck,’ she said.
‘Next, I felt something crawling over my face and over my eye. I yelled for Eric to help me, and when he saw the spider crawling over my face, he swatted it to the floor, and stamped on it.’
But when Eric’s mother, a nurse, inspected Ms Perez’s neck, she knew something was seriously wrong.
‘I felt funny, instantly,’ says Ms Perez.
It was then that the nurse recognised the violin-shaped mark on the dead spider’s back.
’A bite from a brown recluse can be deadly,’ says Janet Kempf, an arachnologist with the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. Read More
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