 says you really have to work to get bitten by a spider. They don't want to bite you. So why would a little bitty spider want to attack a human being that's 40 times, 50 times their size? So why do we get bitten at all? The truth is we don't actually get bitten that much in the first place. Many bites are attributed to spiders, but there was a study done in 2009 where