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yeah...wouldn't this hurt?

#45
A couple more venomous UK spiders...

Araneus diadematus
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Bites cause pain and impressive inflammation. (They're not as big as the picture suggests)

Steatoda nobilis
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Severe pain, sometimes death through anaphylaxis.
 
#47
Thats actually pretty interesting - I never realised there was a variety of spider species in the UK.

I'm just waiting till our Aussie TBers wake up and post some pics of their native spiders!

'You call that a spider?'

This..... is a spider!' :D
 
#49
Hey that first one looks just like the one we found at work!

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This one was very feisty until we got done playing with him. Kinda shriveled up after we put some methyl ethyl ketone on him. Even so, we were impressed enough to get pics.

We're just on the north side of Dallas-Fort Worth.
 
#51
dlloyd said:
A couple more venomous UK spiders...

Araneus diadematus
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Bites cause pain and impressive inflammation. (They're not as big as the picture suggests)

Steatoda nobilis
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Severe pain, sometimes death through anaphylaxis.
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As far as I know there are NO Uk spiders that can cause death...at all. I know the wolf spider can deal an asty bite(my great grandmother was one of only a few recorded cases who got bitten). Apparently it was like a wasp sting.
 
#52
dlloyd said:
No joke, I managed to find a pic of one.

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That looks sinister. What is it? Ok, I read the link. :eek: I wonder if venomous spiders could be getting in through imports? I remember seeing on the news that a guy from leeds got bitten on the face by a Brazilian Wandering spider that jumped out of some bannanas(luckily he went to the hospital where they had the antidote). :hiding:
 
#53
Nickthebassist said:
As far as I know there are NO Uk spiders that can cause death...at all.
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Well now you know a little more than you did before, don't you?

Steatoda has a bite similar to a wasp sting in terms of pain. Which might conceivably cause you to go into anaphylactic shock. You'd have to be really unlucky for this to happen.

T. agrestis causes necrotic lesions, but for some reason the UK population don't bite people. They were introduced into the US at the start of the 20th century and american spiders of this species for some reason do bite.

Araneus is a very common garden spider that does bite. They're pretty small spiders despite what it looked like in the picture I posted. You might get an itchy swollen finger at worst.

The queen mother's phone spider that was found a couple of years ago, I have no idea about.

I know the wolf spider can deal an asty bite(my great grandmother was one of only a few recorded cases who got bitten). Apparently it was like a wasp sting.
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There's lots of different types of wolf spiders. Most spiders will try to bite you if you mistreat them.

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In the Middle Ages, the wolf spider's bite was thought to cause hysterical ailments or tarantism for which dancing was the cure, hence the name 'tarantula' and its popular association with the dance 'tarantella'
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#54
Nickthebassist said:
That looks sinister. What is it? Ok, I read the link. :eek: I wonder if venomous spiders could be getting in through imports? I remember seeing on the news that a guy from leeds got bitten on the face by a Brazilian Wandering spider that jumped out of some bannanas(luckily he went to the hospital where they had the antidote). :hiding:
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Here's another instance of a wandering spider being found in bananas...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/3890869.stm
 
#56
dlloyd said:
Well now you know a little more than you did before, don't you?

Steatoda has a bite similar to a wasp sting in terms of pain. Which might conceivably cause you to go into anaphylactic shock. You'd have to be really unlucky for this to happen.

T. agrestis causes necrotic lesions, but for some reason the UK population don't bite people. They were introduced into the US at the start of the 20th century and american spiders of this species for some reason do bite.

Araneus is a very common garden spider that does bite. They're pretty small spiders despite what it looked like in the picture I posted. You might get an itchy swollen finger at worst.

The queen mother's phone spider that was found a couple of years ago, I have no idea about.



There's lots of different types of wolf spiders. Most spiders will try to bite you if you mistreat them.

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My dad is allergic to wasps. He goes into some kind of shock(anaphylactic?). Could one of these spiders harm him?
 
#57
dlloyd said:
Here's another instance of a wandering spider being found in bananas...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/3890869.stm
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Brrrrrrrrr. Look at ittttttttt. Just look at itttttttt! EVIL! They're really nasty peice of work are those. They will attack without provocation, and will persue you at high speed. O, and they can jump. Another spider that is similar in its evilness is the Sydney funnel web. There's a picture somewhere of one with it's fangs on display. :crying: :hiding:
 
#59
EEEEEEWWWWW!!!!!

I lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico for several years & one day I walked out into my garage & there it was, some sort of centipede thingy (like the pic above but more yellow) that had to be 8-10 inches long, it scared the crap out of me cause I wasn't expecting it. Grabbed a shovel & hit it good, IT WOULD NOT DIE. Had to hit it several more times.

Cockroaches were a big problem too. No matter how clean your house was they always got inside. Always had to have an exterminator spray around the house. At night, if you were outside, you could here them walking. Thousands of them....
 

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