G'day Gargoyle,

You wrote:

... Cleaning leaves three years ago....a black-widder climbed up the denim jeans pants leg and nibbled me in the calf.....not until three days latter did the most peculiar (Trantella type) responce begin. ...>.

It's interesting (and music-related) that you tie the bite of a Black Widow Spider (latrodectus maculata ... ?) to the sort of "dancing sickness" symptoms traditionally ascribed to the original "Tarantula" of the Italian Taranto region - lycos tanantula).

Recent research suggests the the actual spider whose bite caused the "dancing" agitation that folklore insisted had to be removed by dancing to vigorous Tanantellas was not the hairy local wolf spider lycos tanantula ... but the much smaller black (and 13-spotted ... ?) latrodectus tridecimgutata - a cousin to your Black Widow ... and our Redbacked Spider (latrodectus hasselti.

I'm glad you survived without having to send someone to fetch a fiddler!

Regards,

Bob Bolton