The bite of the black widow may cause severe muscular pain, a board-like rigidity of the abdomen, tightness in the chest, difficulty in breathing, and profuse sweating and nausea.
Death rarely occurs.
In the case of the brown recluse, a local necrosis, an area of dead tissue, forms at the site of the bite.
Other symptoms occur only rarely and fatalities are extremely rare.
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