Irritation or a red mark on the skin (including visible puncture marks).
Symptoms of a white-tail spider biteĪ bite from a white-tail spider usually results in temporary symptoms at the site of the bite. It appears this particular spider’s reputation is undeserved and greatly overestimated. Although a white-tail spider bite can be painful and cause temporary skin irritation and inflammation, experts now say it’s very unlikely that the white-tail spider is responsible for the hard-to-treat skin ulcers and slow-healing wounds attributed to the spider over the past 30 years.