I got bit by something just over the US border in the Okanagan area a few years back. Doc said she figured it was a brown recluse, but said there's no way to know for sure unless you capture the beastie. Whatever it was, it was tiny. It stung like a bad ant-bite. The wound ulcerated (looked like I put out a cigarette on my leg), and as it was healing, I got what looked like a henna tattoo of a daisy on my leg - the petals being around the bite, and the "stem" trailing down toward my ankle. The same doc told me that's not unusual in venomous bites.
It wasn't really as bad as it sounds. It sure looked like a portal to hell, but it didn't really hurt much.
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