Survey of ‘spider bites’ found 80% were caused by other arthropods

What was said

"there's uh one report that I thought was really interesting showed that of the 600 people they did like a survey who sought help for a spider bite at hospitals in LA and Arizona, 80% of those bites were caused by other arthropods entirely. So like not spiders, not spiders."

Erin Allmann Updyke cites a report of 600 patients presenting to hospitals in Los Angeles and Arizona for suspected spider bites, saying 80% were attributed to non-spider arthropods. The hosts frame it as evidence that spider bites—brown recluse bites in particular—are commonly over-suspected compared with other more likely causes.