Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
Is there anything in Australia that can't kill you or rot an appendage off from just one bite?Originally posted by: Stumps
do you guys get white tail spiders in the US?, one bite from them and you get to have your arm or leg rot off over the course of a few years, it's bite is generally on curable by surgery to remove the affected area, we get heaps of them over here, I usually kill 4 or 5 a day...bloody things
Originally posted by: junkerman123
haha, air rifle vs spider. awesome.
BOO!!!Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Good God! These spider threads almost give me anxiety attacks. Especially when I go and google some of these things.
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Good God! These spider threads almost give me anxiety attacks. Especially when I go and google some of these things.
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Good God! These spider threads almost give me anxiety attacks. Especially when I go and google some of these things.
dude..google white tail spider and have a look at the pics that have the bite on them...
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Just to calm the heebee jeebies going on in this thread, 99% of spider's fangs are not strong enough, not to mention long enough, to go through human skin.
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Damn, you Aussies get ALL the fun critters !
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: captains
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
Originally posted by: Stumps
spider suck, I have been biten by redbacks a few times...they hurt like a muthfvcker, I have had a Sydney funnelweb the size of my hand crawl across my bed and cause me to stain my undies.
Arent they like the most poisonous spiders in the world?
daddy long legs are the most poisonous..but they cant break the skin wif deer teef, so the are harmless to us...omg i remembered something from high school
wrong, the mythbusters guy's tried this theory and proved it wrong, the venom from a daddy long legs is a really weak version of the black widow's venom, it causes a bit of itching but no real effects
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
I remember seeing on Animal Planet that some spider, can't remembe the name (probably one of the ones you mentioned, is responsible for thousands of cases each year. Usually involving youngsters, where the spiders re hiding amongst toys and other things.
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
I remember seeing on Animal Planet that some spider, can't remembe the name (probably one of the ones you mentioned, is responsible for thousands of cases each year. Usually involving youngsters, where the spiders re hiding amongst toys and other things.
yep, sound like the funnelweb, they come out when it rains to find a mate and because they are only found in sydney, they are very common in peoples backyard, the have a highly venomous cousin called the mouse spider, it's even more common and wider spread..and has longer fang upto one and half centimetres long...I really hate those ones.
Originally posted by: Stumps
yep, now imagine waking up one morning to find that staring at you
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: Stumps
yep, now imagine waking up one morning to find that staring at you
Recipe for an instant heart attack in my case!
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
I remember seeing on Animal Planet that some spider, can't remembe the name (probably one of the ones you mentioned, is responsible for thousands of cases each year. Usually involving youngsters, where the spiders re hiding amongst toys and other things.
yep, sound like the funnelweb, they come out when it rains to find a mate and because they are only found in sydney, they are very common in peoples backyard, the have a highly venomous cousin called the mouse spider, it's even more common and wider spread..and has longer fang upto one and half centimetres long...I really hate those ones.
Yep, those are some nasty fangs!
Can I bring a bunch of guns? If not I'm staying right here.Originally posted by: Stumps
and the most venomous and aggressive snakes...come summer time it's king brown central where i live
Originally posted by: captains
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
Originally posted by: Stumps
spider suck, I have been biten by redbacks a few times...they hurt like a muthfvcker, I have had a Sydney funnelweb the size of my hand crawl across my bed and cause me to stain my undies.
Arent they like the most poisonous spiders in the world?
daddy long legs are the most poisonous..but they cant break the skin wif deer teef, so the are harmless to us...omg i remembered something from high school
Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Originally posted by: captains
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
Originally posted by: Stumps
spider suck, I have been biten by redbacks a few times...they hurt like a muthfvcker, I have had a Sydney funnelweb the size of my hand crawl across my bed and cause me to stain my undies.
Arent they like the most poisonous spiders in the world?
daddy long legs are the most poisonous..but they cant break the skin wif deer teef, so the are harmless to us...omg i remembered something from high school
Another person let down by public education.