Yes, Florida definitely has more than its share of nasty crawling things. I remember 3 different instances on 2 separate trips (all at the same campground, however) involving some of Florida's "exotic" creatures.
Case #1: My daughter was about 8 years old and we were camping near Disney World. She apparently (according to locals) had been bitten on her face by some kind of spider that resembles a dandelion seed. She spent the next couple of days looking like she'd been punched in the eye.
Case #2: Same trip. We were trying to decide whether to stay over one more night at the campground. As I got out of the tent and went to zip it up, I saw, not 2 inches from my hand, on the flap of the tent, a scorpion. Needless to say, the decision was a no-brainer after that. I never realized that Florida had scorpions. Until that time, I had always thought of them as desert dwellers.
Case #3: Same campground; 2 or 3 years later. We got in kinda late at night and went to set up camp. There was a tree on the site with a a long piece of what appeared to be fishing line. Turned out to be part of a spider web. Not wanting to meet the critter that made it, we decided to find a different site. LOL!
Lots of luck fighting the bugs down there. I mean, they can be pretty bad throughoput the south, but Florida is ridiculous. If some of the bugs got much bigger you could ride them.