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Can you not hoover them up?

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You could have fun watching them spin around if you had a Dyson then you could take the hoover dust catcher to the agents :D
Nicky

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Right they have said we can have it sprayed, but the firm that they have chosen can't fit us in until Tuesday when we complained to the estate agents they basically said tough, they said that he was under no obligation to get it done and he was doing it as a favour.

We said but we've found someone who will do it today, they said no he's made his choice and that's who'll be doing it unless you want to pay yourself. :mad:

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your landlord is an arsehole

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I agree :D

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what a tosser, gather them up and post em to him :mad:

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The estate agents, were so on his side as well.

I hope he gets a life threatening disease, the arsehole if
one of my boys gets bit he'll be getting somethinghttp://members.optusnet.com.au/lanem...es/snajper.gif

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oh Fraser you seem to have had such a bad time since you arrived :( do you regret going over there?

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I worked in Melbourne for 5 weeks last year and didn't even think about spiders and snakes. Now I've read this thread you lot are starting to give me the sh*ts

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No of course not, life throws shit at you where ever you are, if we had built in the UK and rented while being unemployed it would have been just as bad.

It's a major upheaval, kids are around us 24/7 we haven't got money to do money things.

We've been here 3 months and only had a few days out, it's tough but no tougher than I expected it to be having known before we left what the work situation was going to be.

So no regrets here :D



I would like to get hold of the landlord though and..........

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I've previously spent six weeks here, didn't see a thing.

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ah thats great to hear :) I'm sure a lot of peeps would want to throw the towel in with all the shit you've had, in such a short time. Just shows how comitted and strong you all are and one day you will look back and laugh at all this :D

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Would be nice to be able to start enjoying it here. We were looking at houses within hours of landing.

We maybe should have had a week to enjoy ourselves on arrival but having been here three times before we'd already done that so wanted to get stuck in so to speak.

But when we do have the odd day out like yesterday we realise why we came :)

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The house has been sprayed, already found quite a few dead redbacks, one right under the metal pull out washing line, must have been living in there :eek:

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Bees kill dozens of people every year in Aussie, I honestly cannot remember the last time a red back killed anyone. Also given a choice, between spider bites, the last thing you want biting you is a white tail spider, here in Vic. Generally red backs live outside, and white tails try to live in amongst clothing, linen
etc etc. Sure the red backs look threatening and unpleasant, but your average bee is far more dangerous.

Sometimes people are too "pommy" in their perspective.

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Not when you've got a two year old that likes to pick them up.

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Why would this be a bigger problem for your child than any Aussie kid ?

Your over reacting thats why the estate agent reacted that way, tin of baygon surface spray 6 bucks at coles, mate.

Two years time you will wonder what the fuss was about. You never hear of Aussies carrying on this way honestly ;)


Red backs are probably the most overrated threat in Aussie, beleive me that is true. Be more worried about bees.

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Really. every Aussie that we mentioned it too was horrified and recommended that we insist the landlord gets it sprayed.

In fact that's what probally freaked us the most.

I really don't think I'm overreacting when there's something in reach of my boy which can potentially kill him.

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It's probably one level up from having ants all over your house, some people would act horrified over that as well.

Baygon surface spray will do the trick. Maybe your talking to heaps of anchrophobes or something.

Put it this way, If i were to suddenly land in the UK, from Japan say, and started freaking out about wasps, or red ants, talking about suing etc etc you would possibly raise an eyebrow as well.

I'd put red backs on the same threat level as red ants.

You are almost certainly bound to have white tails as well, and they are a real threat, so the surface spray will do the trick as well.

personally speaking I would only spray where I've seen the threat, as these kind of strong insectesids are possibly more dangerous especially to youngsters long term, than the insect, causing long term respitory problems in some people, especially if exposed when ones immune system is developing.

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So if my two yr old picked up a red ant, would it kill him or cause him to be in agony, I think not.

You're the first person who hasn't warned us to keep our kids away from them.

I find it very unlikely that every Aussie we spoke to was an arachnaphobe.

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I'm not saying dont keep your kids away from them, just go and buy a can of Baygon thats all.

People probably get bitten by red backs on a weekly basis, and half of them wouldn't even know it.

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Yeah, but we'd be in the other half, trust me :rolleyes:

It's a bit hard to keep them away from them when they're in reach all over the garden, even the pest guy said we were right not to let the kids out.

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About 18 years ago, maybe more, whilst doing my Gas Meter round, I got bitten by an unspecified insect, I totally freaked out, raced back to my car, drove down the doctors, entered said doctors office in an almost panicked state. The reaction from all, besides my panicked state, was mild amusement, especially from the patients in the waiting room. It did hurt a bit, it was almost certainly a red back bite, and it hurt about the same as a wasp sting.

I'm just giving you another aussie perspective.

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People usually only die to Bees because of an alergic reaction. When it says seek medical attention when bitten by a Red Back I know where I'd put it on a list of severity.

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Maybe, but there's no way if there's even a 1% chance of my boy getting bit I'm going to risk it, it can kill him end of story.

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Where?

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Thought it was implied. Much higher than a Bee

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Sorry, just read it again :o

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You'll find that the reaction to the Redbacks comparitively mild venom in the vast majority of people is nowhere near as bad as the far more common and very deadly reaction to the bees acid. Plus how would you know if your two year old is allergic to a bee until it has happened.

Somehow though I think I'm talking to people that don't want to asborb these facts.


Fact is though it's true.

For a red back bite go to the doctors, for a white tail bite straight down the hospital.

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Porch ceiling, and redbacks also dont go together so had a close look at the picture, that particular spider may not be a red back, the legs do not look right.

Redbacks generally live on the ground, under rocks or between bits of timber etc etc generally dont climb, mostly outdoors and are timid and small.

Although if were on a porch and the metal got hot maybe.

Will try and ID this spider for alternatives now.

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The spider in that picture is almost certainly the following, which is commonly mistaken for the almost exclusively outside dwelling redback.

meet the steatoda...

http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/d...k/suspects.htm

If you look through the site, is gives you a realistic understanding of the actual threat of a redback spider which is negligible.

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Sorry mate it was a redback, hence the big red stripe on it's back,did you not zoom it in?

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As is this one which came from the washing line

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Apologies, I didn't zoom in. Have you had a good look around that site ?

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Yeah I did have a look and I know where your coming from, but I'm still not happy with my kids playing around them until they get older.

There's loads of dead ones appearing and then disapearing, birds I take it?

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Could be garden ants carrying them off. Probably birds though.

Anyway night shift beckons. I'm orf.

Good luck to your team this week ;) Bloody glad I'm not in England at present because of the pain, our lot is putting us through lol.

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Have good night, and thanks :)