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Man your weapons and fall in!! … ready to deploy!!:yikes:


SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians have been warned: angry arachnids are heading indoors.
Scientists say Australia's hot, humid and wet summer has had a bad effect on common, but potentially deadly, redback spiders.
Normally found in outdoor sheds, gardens and under roofs, the cantankerous creepy-crawlies are seeking shelter indoors in tropical Queensland and New South Wales, two of Australia's biggest states.
"There has been rain and winds which push falling leaves into the roof gutters, destroying their web. This leaves them no other option but to come down into the house," said Queensland Museum arachnologist Robert Raven.
Bites have been recorded at a rate of one a day, he said.
A female redback's bite usually results in sweating and pain, which slowly builds to the point of being unbearable.
No deaths from redback bites have been reported in Queensland since the introduction of an anti-venom.
The redback is one of the most common of Australia's seemingly endless supply of poisonous pests. A distant cousin of the American black widow, it is distinguished by a red stripe on the shiny black, thumbnail-sized body of the larger female.
Scientists describe the redback's existence as "amoral" because of their unique mating behavior in which males give themselves up to the deadly females to be killed and eaten after mating.
"It's all about foreplay. If he doesn't have the moves, she's not going to be interested," said Sydney Taronga Zoo exhibit supervisor Warrick Angus, who said he kept a redback as a pet.


You have to go to the experts when you're in trouble, Sharni.






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LMAO. :D

<---grabs her bug vacuum and heads southwest. :D

"If you're eva bitten by a redback spyda, you're gonna die."

[QUOTE=Sharni][color=blue]We got the damn things everywhere *L*....ya just learn to be careful where ya put ya fingers and bits....

Really got to worry where ya puts your bits..especially yummy bits. :D

And Sharni will not come to Canada because of Polar Bears? Sharni, we have 1 rattle snake, and even it is on the endangered list. Apparently the -25 c weather kills off most deadly animals.

Ewwwww Move Sharni!!! :teleport: :yikes:

ROFLMFAO :grin:

Hey someome forgot to mention those damn white tail spider's. They are far worse than the redback. As I think Sharni will agree with.

Sorry Mark, the white-tailed spider myth has been bopped on the head.

Golden staph from treatment rooms has been nominated as that baddy.

On my trip to the USA in '03, we were told in Tucson about a spider called the

Brown Solitary, which has the same supposed effect of creeping necrosis.

Australia's red-back spider is probably a hitch-hiker picked up by the colony fleets

in South Africa. It is largely unknown in the deep bush.

It has no dream-time name and story.

(((((((((((Oldfart))))))) Recluse....almost solitary:D http://www.maripoisoncenter.com/ctr/9908brspider.html We have them everywhere here and Summer has scars fromwhen she was bitten by one.

My mother had an odd sense of superstition...and she instilled some of it in me (hey...thanks a shit-load ma!)...

Here's one of her more annoying sayings that I still adhere to...

"If you want to live in thrive...let a spider go alive"

And so...I very rarely kill a spider in my house, and NEVER outside...unless by accident (running over it with the mower or stepping on it before I realize). If they are small and harmless looking, I'll just scoot them out of the web in the corners of a room and clean away said web and go about my dusting.

The exceptions? Wolf spiders...black, half dollar size, hairy spiders with pointed legs. And grey or brown recluse spiders...which you may rarely see but more often experience it's bite first...and then, they are usually found in our barn instead of the house.

ALL spiders are venonmous...but some venom (quality and quantity) is worse than others.

One more note (cause I'm a blabbermouth...lol!)...It's a myth that "daddy long-legged" spiders cannot bite humans. They can, but it takes them a while to get riled up enough to do so, and then they have to position themselves in a precarious way to get in a good bite. If they do...it's gonna hurt and you will get sick, as they are one of the more poisonous spiders around here.

So, let's see what we learned from my mom here! If you want your house full of spiders, and friends shrieking when they come for a visit...let the little ones live in the corners of every room in the house!

Hey! I told ya she was a smart woman...but I think I also told you she was quite odd at times! LMFAO! *looking all around the room* HIYA MOM!

Keep your sexy bits safe Sharni!

Sharni - with a dead polar bear you can make a nice rug. A spider rug is not that appealing. Besides, I have lived in Canada for 30+ years and the only place I have seen a Polar Bear is in a Zoo.