Bitten By The Brazilian Wandering Spider! 

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Man Clint owns a 4 foot lizard and a snapping turtle he can speak FULL SPANISH and he’s got a family this man is a legend

All spiders deserve respect Some spiders demand it.

A spider bite that changes the function of your junction? No sir. Not me lol. Awesome video! I'll be terrified of these spiders for forever hahaha

Clint: "Watch out for Brazilian Wandering Spiders" Me, a Brazilian arachnophobe who already found one of those in my house in two different occasions: "I always do. Always." *cries in Portuguese*

It's amazing that Clint can speak Spanish but, it's a whole another level for him to translate it on the spot!

I'll give this a handlability of .5/5

Fun fact: these spiders sometimes show up in banana shipments all over the world. Most of the time, they're quite dead by the time they arrive at a grocery store produce department. But on very rare occasions, they manage to survive the insecticides, water baths, and chilling of processing and shipping and arrive alive and kicking at their destinations. One got loose in a supermarket in Oklahoma back in 2009. Another made it into some unfortunate person's kitchen somewhere in the UK just a few years ago. Said person spotted the spider crawling out of a bunch of bananas they had just bought, just before it skittered away and disappeared. Anyway, that's your fun fact for the day. Goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite! 😈

I’m so glad this man is healing and he’s helping save lives being part of the study. Bless this man. May his family and him live long happy lives.

I love these interviews you do with people that have been attacked or harmed by animals (like that really cool woman that got death rolled by a crocodile), because it really helps to demystify the fears that people have about dangerous creatures. Some people might have a fear of these animals that goes beyond just being wary or cautious and turns to hate for them- and these help to show that while yes it's good to leave these dangerous creatures alone, it's not a death sentence if you do end up being attacked by them.

As a Chilean, as I was hearing him describe his symptoms, I was so nervous as to how you were going to translate that 😆 There's a saying for when people have... THAT going on, like a euphemism to not mention it directly that goes "picao de araña" (picado de araña -> spider pricked), which goes to show that people are kinda aware that some spiders can produce this Thank you Clint! 🤍💙❤

The genus name 'Phoneutria' comes from the Greek word 'φονεύτρια' meaning 'Murderess', according to wiki. Fitting name for this spider when hearing his story

I'm learning Spanish right now and watching this, listening to how you both spoke and picking out the words I understood and using context clues to figure out the jist of what was being said was a fun exercise! I'm glad he's doing much better now.

Incredible story. Also, love for the guy in the back carrying the axe, just doing what he does.

I was bitten by a brown recluse once and still have a scar from the experience. Spiders deserve some serious respect! I mean, we are ginormous giants compared to spiders, but some of them can take us down.

I have to assume calling the study was about making sure there wouldn't be negative interactions? At first I was worried it was like "will saving this guys life mess up your study?"

Wow,, I admire your professional ability to translate an entire conversation on the fly with near-perfect translation from start to finish without any mistakes or misunderstandings! A flawless and truly fantastic skill set! Subscribed because of how impressive your performance is in this video! Great work man!

Very educational and personal story. Im glad you had the opportunity to share it with us!

What a story! Clint, I'm so impressed with not only your knowledge of reptiles, but also your fluency in Spanish. You're seriously an amazing presenter. In the future, if you include a Spanish conversation, just write subtitles so we don't need to watch both you and him speaking back-to-back. Seriously love your channel; thanks for your quality content!!!

Me encanta este video!! Me encantaría si Clint pudiera hacer más videos como esto con hispanohablantes y traducciones en vivo. Seriously, not only was this a fantastic way to combine two of my personal favorite subjects (languages and animals) but it was also so nice to be able to hear first-hand experiences. Please make more!!!

Thank you both for sharing such a scary and personal story with us! ♡

Seriously nice interview Clint. Good job bringing to further awareness of the dangers the people contend with. That is one mean species of spider.

Am I the only one realizing right now that Clint speaks Spanish?!

Glad to hear he is healing and all right. Very informative video.

So happy he survived. Thank you gracious for telling us. And Clint needs to interpret everything for us well done

Crazy story! Great translation btw! What a strange reaction! the biochem of that is very specific. So glad the anti venom worked! (Just a random transition note techo is both roof and ceiling)

Super interesting while also being awful! Thank Ronald for sharing your story and thanks Clint for making sure people who don’t speak Spanish understood as well!

Clint your videos are the most awesome stuff in all of RU-vid. Thanks for what what you do.

I love Clint's channel so much omg

Clint doin' a linguistic flex here and it's awesome! I'm glad he's recovering. The Brazilian wandering spider is terrifying and one of the last species I'd ever want to be bitten by.

Great video Clint! I was impressed with your translation skills and interpreting! As a native speaker myself, I have to say your Spanish is pretty good and was fairly on point!

What a great interview of a first-hand account. Love seeing this kind of content on the channel as well, keep up the fantastic work!

You did a very good job translating. Interesting story and glad he’s ok

Your Spanish is amazing, your knowledge is expansive, and your passion is tangible. Man, myth, AND legend. Keep it up Clint🍻

I appreciate you leaving in his telling of the story in its entirety, and not just cutting to or dubbing over with the translation!

That is a crazy experience. Great job translating!

That interpreting was fantastic to watch Clint!

Clint, I didn’t know you spoke Spanish, I can’t be surprised lots of people in the US do that. I think this video is scarier because of the Spanish, not because the Spanish is scary but because I don’t understand Spanish so I have to wait and be tense to find out what it means.

Yikes! That's not something anyone wants to go through. Thank God he made a full recovery. Thank you for your excellent translation, Clint.

Clint, your translation is near perfect! Every video has a new surprise. One of the best and most informative channels, thanks!

I’m impressed once again at your grasp of Spanish and so many things that crawl or slither. Thanks!

This poor man! I am glad to hear his story and that he is healing.

That sounded like a harrowing experience and I am glad that Ronald survived the bite! I can't help but to think that bites from Banana/Wandering spiders are a common hazard for residents of South America and even parts of Central America.

This is great translation Clint!

Pretty crazy. Thanks for sharing this info. It’s important to remember that the spider was just defending itself, but it would be really stressful living or working where they are so common.

As soon as I read the title I thought Brazilian wandering spider. Crazy story and I think this was a great episode to share the effects of a bite.

What a harrowing story. I am very happy that Ronald is making a complete recovery

Well translated Clint, got it all spot on. That spider bite is no joke! Glad he is all good now

Honestly, Clint, I am so incredibly proud of you

As someone who can speak English and Spanish, translation is always a bit weird to do because of grammar differences, but Clint did an amazing job conveying the ideas. Awesome video

Look at Clint being an extraordinary interviewer in another language and translating it on the spot without any help... I speak some Spanish and could not do this, but also I noticed several times where they were speaking about concepts instead of actual words, quite likely because Ronald Ronald a rural man and doesn't always need to be specific w his words, but Clint got the concept and found the words in Spanish and then in English for us. Quite impressive. Also I'm brasilian and woke up many times in the middle of the night to go potty and went back to bed instead because there was one in the bathroom lol Thank you for this

I was just seeking information on the Brazilian Opuntia (cactus). Saw this and decided to check this out! Great Interview!!! Thank You Both 😁

Been waiting for this video for like 4 months now!

how do your vids not have more views your content is rly good i watch your videos with my bearded dragon cherry

The Brazilian wandering spider: definitely NOT the best pet for you!

Really glad he lived to share this story with us. Thank you to everyone who risk's their lives to get venom to make anti-venom for us, truly heroes.

That's crazy. Glad he's okay and that SB hat is dope

my first thought regarding that bite was "oh, F NO!" lol. I live in Arizona with lots of venomous critters and I have no desire to see a Brazilian wandering spider up close

The guy was speaking slowly and clearly enough that I didn't need to wait for the translation (speak some Spanish but most Spanish speakers talk too fast with too much slang for me to understand well)

Buen trabajo Clint!! Excelente traducción! Very impressed. =)

This was a very interesting story! I'm glad to hear this guy is healing. Definitely going to subscribe to your channel!

Back in the 80’s, way before the baths and cooling, we’d get all sorts of interesting insects in bananas. Black Widows, tarantulas and cockroaches were very common. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life was a huge cockroach bouncing out of a box of bananas on to a crowded produce floor. The customers went flipping nuts but my boss came in (with size 15 wingtips) to stomp the 3” roach. The only thing is, he was a little drunk, and he missed. The startled cockroach immediately ran to the darkest spot possible-up his pant leg! I have never seen a bigger human commotion than that in my life! While reaction from the crowd went from stunned silence to panic, my boss almost managed to take his pants off-over his head! We ran to him quickly and got things under control but, in over 40 years I’ve never laughed that hard!

That was a really cool interview Clint & u speak Spanish really well. 👍🏻👍🏻

Your Spanish understanding is quite good! :D Your translation was pretty darn good (Spanish is my first tongue) Love your content keep it up!

no sabía que hablabas español Muy buenos tus videos, sigue así saludos desde Costa Rica

Aaaaand this is why I don’t eat bananas! Seriously, though this was an important and interesting video. It’s good to know exactly what one can expect if bitten by this traveling arachnid. The erectile effects lasting for years is something I’m sure many of us were unaware of and makes a possible bite from this spider even more frightening than it already was. Thank you for sharing Clint and what a wonderful job of translating on the spot! I took 2 years of Spanish in high school and started studying the language again more recently so picking out words and phrases I recognized during the video added another fun and interesting aspect for me. Thanks again! 🤘🏻☺️💕

Lol I love Clint and he did a great job translating. But I loved when he said “Mr.Dunn”

Good interview . I enjoyed the story

You're a legend

This one of the @ClintsReptiles videos I hadn't yet seen. Basically, I stumbled on his channel at some point and keep watching. I especially love watching Clint go beyond his "debilitating herpophilia" and explore other species. I love spiders and I break them down into four basic types: 1) Cutie-Pies 2) You just won't see them 3) Look, but leave them alone to be spiders 4) Oh, that might be an issue In the first is your jumping-spiders, the cutest of all the "little things that move"..except weevils, nothing beats weevils. In the UK we get mostly the tiny "zebra" jumping-spider and they are cute beyond belief, you can actually get them to look at you by holding your finger over the light-source but not near them, you do that a few times in sequence and they try to work out the source. Which sounds bananas, but they are the group of insanely-clever spiders. They "learn"..the "Portia" is the one of those that tests have yet to determine it's intelligence because we worked out that it was responding to our tests, so it becomes null-and-void....you can't measure it's natural intelligence if the test itself restricts the whole point of the damn test. The second group contains the water-spiders and bubble-spiders and I'm yet to see one of those. Amongst those are the tiny "flower-crab spiders" and some of them are stunning. I have seen a few in the UK, in various colours, and my best spot was a little pink one. Stunning. Another one that I doubt I will ever see in the wild is the "Ladybird Spider" I will leave a link below on this one as we do have them in the UK but the control on where they are is tighter than trying to park a jumbo-jet on a dartboard. Special mention here goes to the "woodlouse hunters" which look like the thing from "Predator" but are very much allowed into your home. The clue is in the name, as they say. The third group is basically any spider, really..any animal, in a sense...for example, a few years ago there was an example of the steatoda-nobilis/ "false-widow" living in the utility-box at my parents' house...those legs peeking out, the colouring and shape of those "creepy legs" is unmistakable once you know what you are seeing, obviously I had two thoughts in my head "how did one of them get so far North it's in Scotland?..Well, let's not annoy her by trying to entice her out, once the cold comes in, she's done, pretty though..." Unless ...*dang-dang-gdang* ...what if she was the messenger of the spider-army about to take over our entire nation?!!! Yeah, doesn't really work like that with spiders, they can't really move much beyond their territory. Their limbs work on hydraulics without the "natural anti-freeze" that ants have..basically, in a "cold-snap" their limbs explode, which is why the mygalamorphs came way later, really, and we are yet to pin down why something that is basically a spider started to burrow, be around trees. Logically it makes sense, given what I said about their limbs exploding in cold, I'll leave further study to better-read folks than I.. The fourth and final...yeah...this is very tricky to parse...the "Brazilian Wanderer" is, to mind, the only spider that has enough punch to drop all people. There might be something even more effective in terms of venom, but it's really hard to study as most spiders just won't bite you. Spiders are one of the least aggressive species on the planet, you really have to force them into biting you...except the "Thai Earth-Tiger" which is seriously aggressive, but again, Her venom isn't really significant, it's just that She doesn't want you anywhere near her, I refer you back to my Third Point. In final. It's very, very rare to find an arachnid that actually has a "dead-drop" venom. There are some species that carry a serious-bolt, like the "death-stalker", but again, it's more about the response to the injury than the bite itself. To finalise this point. Spiders don't really carry enough venom to kill you as fast as their prey. They can, if put into a "defense position" dump all of that venom into you, and that will cost them their lives, potentially...now think about what you did by disobeying my precept of Rule 3, this could have not happened at all. The most serious injuries from spiders are not the neuro-toxic ones but the "flesh-breakers", the ones that make your skin start to break down and the biggest problem with this is not the venom from the spider, but trying to track and respond to the new and interesting bacteria on the chelicerae of the damn thing we thought bit you. Leave the spiders alone, they are not something to be scared of, they are totally fascinating.

Amazing Clint.. well done

Llevo siguiéndote mucho tiempo y ahora me entero de que hablas español! Traduces muy muy bien.

Clint your Spanish is very good 👍🏻 one time in Costa Rica I took a picture of a wandering spider with my hand right next to it for scale, only years later did I learn how dangerous a stunt that was😅

I love your channel and watch as many videos as i can to get caught up to your new videos that i also watch as they come out. Sometimes i cast them to my TV.

This is a great video. There aren't many spiders in the world that have a serious potential to kill you. Wandering spiders are on that list along with funnel web spiders. I'm just as glad there really aren't any super dangerous ones around here.

Spiders used to scare me as a kid, so my uncle suggested I watch a spider documentary to realize they're neat. Banana spiders were in that documentary, and I have been petrified of spiders (except for fuzzy tarantulas) ever since 😖 Thank you, Clint, for translating and telling us this man's story!!

I've heard about what some of the treatment (for men) may be in worst cases of these spider bites and it's... scary. So honestly, gentlemen, if this spider has to bite either you or me (I'm not a guy), let it bite me. I don't want you to go through that.

Clint, this one of your best posts...

Dude I've been subbed to your channel for a bit and I love the content, but the ability to translate on the spot is mad impressive!

Honestly impressive they've not only have these evil spiders bite, but they were able to save a life as well.

Clint's got to be one of the most interesting and intelligent folks on RU-vid. Love his vids. 10 out of 10

So glad he is recovering. His story was very interesting

About 10 years ago in the UK a man was bitten by a spider hiding in a bunch of bananas that he’d bought at a local supermarket; he managed to take a picture of AND capture the animal before being taken to Musgrove Hospital, Taunton, Somerset. The hospital staff contacted an expert in arachnids who identified the picture as being the extremely aggressive Phoneutria nigriventer (Brazilian Wandering Spider) and told them the anti-venom to use, he then asked them what had become of the beast, to which the hospital staff said “we let it go in the hospital grounds”. Thank god we occasionally get VERY cold winters! 😎

Venom is some amazing biological substances. So many varieties of death! He was blessed to have survived, and he knows it.

Gracias por compartir su historia. Me alegra que todo salio biene y que esta saludable. P.S. Clint, great job translating! And of course thank you for bring us awesome content.

That was very good and educational, Cheer.

I've heard that the Brazilian Wandering Spider can actually bite through fingernails and through leather boots and gloves. They are lethal, aggressive spiders that bite with little provocation. And they run fast and will actually jump onto you. An old book called "Man is the Prey", from my childhood, mentioned that if you swat at a Brazilian Wandering Spider with a broom, it has been known to run up the broom stick and bite your hand. The book also mentioned a scientist studying venomous spiders, I believe the Brazilian Wandering Spider in particular, who told an interviewer that in his laboratory you would hear little "clicking" noises, which turned out to be the venomous spiders stabbing their fangs into the glass walls of their terrariums whenever they saw somebody walk by.

It's very interesting how the bite affects the body especially with how long it takes to recover. The fact his finger was "dead" for months without much visual damage makes me curious what happens on a microscopic level. What does the venom do to the joints, muscles, nerves, and other tissues to make the healing process so slow?

Dude you get a sub for the language lesson alone keep these up 👆

It is so nice to see someone who genuinely respects a life, be it a bug to a whale. I wish we were neighbors or something, we would be the best of friends. Keep being awesome, buddy 💚

I love my spiders. I keep a few tarantula species, some that I've seen make tough men tremble in agony over the sheer pain their venom induces. I dont think I could ever keep a wanderer. That certain side effect is beyond scary.

GREAT Video!

I'm so glad he's ok!!!

Pretty good Spanish Clint! I mistook one of these for a huntsman in Costa Rica and was corralling it for photos when my guide noticed and told me what it was. I was wondering why it was so brave and aggressive for a hunstman. 😬😬

I wonder how much research has been done on that venom as a potential treatment for ED

so glad that the man is okay and Clint was able to translate and share his story.

Most spiders are misunderstood and unnecessarily feared... and then there is the Brazillian Wandering Spider. They’re every bit as terrifying in reality as they are made out to be in the stories.

I live in Ireland where there are no venomous spiders that could kill you yet i still have a huge fear of them. Poor guy here really suffered hes lucky to be alive.

Clint IS THE MAN!!! I love his entire channel and he has taught me SO MUCH whilst making it fun and you can tell he truly enjoys what he does for both himself and us. On a side note: in MY OPINION, the only other spider that I think can/does give the Brazilian wondering spider a run for its money is the deadly Sydney funnel web spider. Most think that the brown recluse is the baddest, but they don't have $hit on these two bad boys!

Why is my girlfriend searching for "Brazillian wandering spider venom for sale"?