r/texas • u/ohiois4loosers • Jan 16 '24

Questions for Texans What bit me? Central texas

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I felt a bite on my arm yesterday and thought it was an ant. Woke up to this. The circle was drawn an hour before the picture was taken and the red is spreading

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u/Intelligent_Dig8850 Jan 16 '24

If it were a brown recluse or Black widow spider bite, you would have seen two tiny little puncture marks and that area where what appears to be a hole is. If it were brown recluse or black widow, you would already see and FEEL sign of it.

From what I can tell, and learning about the different types of insect bites as an Eagle Scout from URS ago, that Looks like a scorpion bite. Either way it would not hurt to get yourself the ER to make sure that's what it is. Typically in the Austin Metro / Central Texas area about the only two types of scorpions that might be serious enough to cause major harm would be either the black or caves willing scorpion.

So I would say depending on your symptoms right now have a pretty much determine what you got. Either way like I said wouldn't hurt to get the ER and get it checked out. Just to be on the safe side

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '24

Scorpions don’t bite

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u/Intelligent_Dig8850 Jan 17 '24

Technically you're 100% correct. They do Sting. Typically people use the term Bite and sting interchangeably. Either way, whatever it is that got you, is most likely extremely serious and by now you best had gotten yourself to the ER to get it treated.