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Originally posted by wellard:
we have bigger spiders and we have the most deadly spiders. my old house used to have spiders *small* with a white stripe that would not kill you but if you were allergic to the poison it could leave you with a gruesome disfigurement. I'll try to find the link to some pics [img]graemlins/1puke.gif[/img]
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Thanks for the link Johnny. The redback is the most common spider around where I live now but because our kids are sensible and leave them alone we do not bother killing them, just move them away if they come in the house.
this is a quote from the white stripe spider link (johnny's link)
The white-tailed spider (Lampona cylindrata), and bites from some other spiders, such as the common black window or house spider (Badumna species), the cupboard or brown spider, and (in the US)the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) and hobo spiders (Tegenaria agrestis), have been infrequently implicated in the development of the so-called necrotising arachnidism syndrome, in which a near-painless bite progresses to painful cutaneous blistering and inflammation which may progress into intensely cyanotic lesions, occasionally resulting in substantial recurrent local tissue necrosis with a deep rolled ulcer involving fat and skin and exposing muscle. Amputation has been required for severe necrosis, and ulcer recurrence may last for years.
Our old house had hundreds of these!!!!
but do not let any of this put you off visiting. the locals (Human) are friendly [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]
[ 07-10-2003, 11:25 AM: Message edited by: wellard ]