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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 468295" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We're fairly spider-conscious here. We do have large hairy spiders and our nastiest is black, shiny and aggressive. But we don't often see those inside. The ones that do come inside are hunstman spiders - large and hairy, scary-looking but harmless, although I'm told a bite will hurt and fester a bit. I've never been bitten by one of these. They are about the size of your palm and can slide into narrow crevices. I will try to carry one outside if it gets in, but if it's not cooperative it gets whacked with a thong (aka flip-flop). I reckon that's why Aussies wear thongs - to whack the spiders.</p><p></p><p>Other spiders - the redback. Mostly outside, but you can get them inside. They're basically a black widow with a red stripe on the abdomen. The funnelweb - that's the black, shiny aggressive one. Potentially deadly, but nobody has died for decades, not since we developed antivenin. I haven't seen one here for decades, but I know they're here. The white-tail (what your spider looks a bit like) which are reputed to cause gangrene from their bite, but that is bow increasingly believed to be an urban myth. They have an abdomen like a short segment of black matchstick with a white head on the match. About that size too, or smaller. The biggest white-tailed spider I've seen was the size of my thumbnail.</p><p></p><p>Further north in Australia we have mouse spiders and bird-eating spiders. For real. Okay, the birds they eat are small, like finch-sized, but they still get caught and eaten by these spiders. A bite from these will make you sick.</p><p>And husband's uncle served in New Guinea during WWII, he said up there spiders were huge. He said you'd see a palm tree with two shadows, then one shadow would get up and walk away...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 468295, member: 1991"] We're fairly spider-conscious here. We do have large hairy spiders and our nastiest is black, shiny and aggressive. But we don't often see those inside. The ones that do come inside are hunstman spiders - large and hairy, scary-looking but harmless, although I'm told a bite will hurt and fester a bit. I've never been bitten by one of these. They are about the size of your palm and can slide into narrow crevices. I will try to carry one outside if it gets in, but if it's not cooperative it gets whacked with a thong (aka flip-flop). I reckon that's why Aussies wear thongs - to whack the spiders. Other spiders - the redback. Mostly outside, but you can get them inside. They're basically a black widow with a red stripe on the abdomen. The funnelweb - that's the black, shiny aggressive one. Potentially deadly, but nobody has died for decades, not since we developed antivenin. I haven't seen one here for decades, but I know they're here. The white-tail (what your spider looks a bit like) which are reputed to cause gangrene from their bite, but that is bow increasingly believed to be an urban myth. They have an abdomen like a short segment of black matchstick with a white head on the match. About that size too, or smaller. The biggest white-tailed spider I've seen was the size of my thumbnail. Further north in Australia we have mouse spiders and bird-eating spiders. For real. Okay, the birds they eat are small, like finch-sized, but they still get caught and eaten by these spiders. A bite from these will make you sick. And husband's uncle served in New Guinea during WWII, he said up there spiders were huge. He said you'd see a palm tree with two shadows, then one shadow would get up and walk away... Marg [/QUOTE]
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