Spiders
 

Read various articles on when you arrive in Oz you should go on a first aid course etc. If you get bitten by a spider what do you do and how long have you got? :scared:

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u never see them only if you go looking

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Don't you think you are worring about nothing, no one has been killed by a spider bite in OZ in 30 years, your 10 times more likely to be killed by a falling tree in OZ ,but people don't worry about that, l've been bitten by bees and wasps in OZ, but never a spider.

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Well I have been bitten by a White Tail spider and it bloody hurt, not much more than a bee sting, but the pain lasts longer.

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I'v had two of these buggers in my house the past week, luckily they've both been squished before they could do any harm.

I HATE spiders :eek:

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I hate the things too, but this one came to visit and he was very pretty ;

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We were working on a job the other week. My TA started to dig some loose soil up which we had unearthed the day before. Then these 2 spiders came out. Not huge but big. Anyway we gave them the body swerve and they didnt attck. We never thought anymore about it. Then i was driving behind my mates van and we stopped at a garage. JUst as i pulled up. My mate jumped out his van and kicked off his shoe. Out pops a spider that had just bitten him. Luckily it wasn't poisonous but he said it hurt like hell. It must have crawled into his boot and he didnt notice.

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We have lots of Tarantula Wasps here and I regularly see them dragging paralysed Huntsmen off to bury.. the Huntsmen definately come off second best to those brutes.

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My OH sister found this on her tent whilst camping. It came looking for them! If had been me I would have left the tent there!!

Hope the attachment works!

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:scared:

Glad I've married a spider hunter ;) :D

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We've had a couple of white tip/tails and red backs and a huge huntsman. Funnily enough we didn't have any spiders when we had the huntsman, then hubby got a bit carried away with the ant spray !

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We have had a few redbacks around the house recently, but this morning was freaky! I got my hat from the car, and was about to pop it on my head and there nestled inside was a huge huntsman - scared the life out of me!!!

It must have crawled in last night, while we had the boot of the car open watching a outdoor movie in Kingsley.

:scared:

Nicola

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I hate them, but weve not had too many really ...this one was kinda nice that was by the front door ....check out the web!!!!

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s/PA150321.jpg

Had a cricket on my washing line today and this fella landed on the chair outside ;)

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s/PB060061.jpg

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Here's a pic of a dead white-tail.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11418025@N00/306471231/

And here's a pic of a baby huntsman which we are looking after. They eat the nasty spiders and the silverfish.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11418025@N00/306474442/

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WHAT is the yellow spider? eeeek! :eek:

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Hi well funny you should mention... When I was on hols last year in Brisbane on a rather windy day whilst walking through the Botanical gardens a very large branch fell from a tree about ten seconds after I'd walked under it. Would still rather take my chances with the tree.... than the eight legged creatures :eek: Donna and Neil

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It is a St. Andrews Cross Spider.

I don't think they are deadly, here is a link:
http://amonline.net.au/factsheets/st_andrews_cross.htm

Cheers.

C.

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I am hoping that Hanna Banana is not reading this thread. We have only just calmed her down from huntsmen....poor soul! :)

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I feel sick :eek:

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Oh sh*t, I really hate to ask and know I'm gonna regret it, but what on earth is a tarantual wasp???????? The whole paralysing and dragging a huntsman is really freaking me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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You're just going to love this... :scared:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/moja/mojaantw.htm

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Thats just nasty :scared:

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Ah, the living dead... :D

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I wish I never looked at This Post but being nosey , it got the better of me.

Now why do you all have to talk about things that we really don't want to think about??????????


Anyway No one has really answered the OP's question but just scared us all in the process. You scaremongers :rolleyes:

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More fun that way... :D

Here's some more links to really get you all going...! :D

http://www.nps.gov/archive/moja/mojaantw.htm - Must say I'm particularly impressed with that one...! But does seem a little OTT... :D

http://www.avru.org/health/health_arachnids.html - Very nasty...

I have to say I've never really looked in to this too much but now I've had a look at these 2 sites I'm scared sh*tless... :scared: :scared:

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In the last 30 years 50,000 Aussies have been killed in car accidents while only one has been killed by a spider, but you are far more terrified of spiders then traveling in cars.

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....depends on who is driving!:)

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All these creepy crawlies are wicked man !!
At least they do them properly in Oz, instead of our poncy thunderbugs and daddy longlegs!

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how many of those were because huntsmen dropped out from the sun visor or redbacks or white tails crawled out from the air vent whilst driving ? :scared:

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This was in our ensuite at 5 this morning, I think it's a Huntsman, and i've been told they're good to have around, and as it's big I reckon it's a female!

I scooped it up in to a cup and it's now sitting under the portico :-)

Keebs

PS here is her piccy.

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I knew I should'nt have looked :eek: :eek: :eek:

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This website has pdf files to click on for various emergency treatments, including spider bites: http://www.stjohn.org.au/emergency.htm

My girls are both St John Cadets, so I'm hoping they'll be around if ever anything happens. I got bitten by a spider the first week after we emigrated but luckily had no more than swelling to my hand - showed it to the local pharmacist and he gave me some cream and advice.

I'm glad I didn't step on this Mouse Spider, found in our garden last year. Now that would have been very worrying!

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Whereabouts in Mandurah do they do St John Cadets ? I'd be interested in getting my two in there !

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I'm just frightened of being bitten - saw this program on white tail spiders, that they drop down in the middle of the night :( - this has really got me on edge. Do they have nets to go over your bed because I am also the person who gets eaten alive by mozzies.
angela

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Oh yes i am here................... kind of wishing i was dead a little bit :(

What the f@%* is the HUGE alien looking thing on the chair?!!!! :scared:
It's bigger than me!!!
And all these personal experience photos are not helping me............yep i'm not going.........i hate my OH.........what kinda crazy-ass country lets these things live in it???!!!1
(Just kiddin peeps - i love Australia - i just don't love the bugs! :( )

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Hi just back from work!

I prayed you would not find this thread or would have the good sense (WHICH YOU OBVIOUSLY DO NOT)! to see the title of the thread and stay well clear and thus avoid the palpations! :)

What is that crazy-assed mouse spider about? eeek!

PS have you fought any one on the birds and tattoos thread yet? (guffaw)! :D

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Ha ha ha - yes i think i'd rather torture myself and look then wonder what was on it!!

Ha ha - read the birds and tattoos thread - couldn't be arsed to argue with anyone about it!! I know how much i love mine and how feminine they are so didn't feel the need to try to convince anyone else of that!! ha!
And my OH finds them very sexy :p - and he's the only one who's opinion i care about anyway!! So i resisted the temptation to rant at anyone on there!!!

And yep - the mouse spider wasn't quite as cute as it sounded was it?!!
I'm still trying ot come down off the ceiling about the alien thing - nothing that ugly should be allowed to be alive!!!!! :confused:

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Seriously, my boys can leave nothing alone! how do i get them to not think they are doing good by "fighting" the spiders?
My 3 year old's idea of pest control in squish first ask questions later..... :eek:

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Wednesday nights at 6pm, at the ambulance station on Pinjarra Rd (opposite the driving licence place). Will PM you with the leader's name and number. Both Junior cadets (age 8-11) and Senior cadets (age 12-18) attend together. Your children can go for 4 trial sessions to see if they like it, then they are required to obtain a uniform and pay the fees, which are minimal. The uniform is paid for by the government. Once they gain their first qualifications, they can start going "on duty" at events but they don't get to treat people until they reach a certain level. My daughter just won a medal in the annual first aid competition and will be entered in the state competition, she just keeps so calm in a crisis and puts into practise what she's learnt. She already has several life-saving certificates and is doing the next course in the pool during the summer. So if I'm bitten by a spider or snake or get stung by a jellyfish or carried out on a rip tide........ yeah forget soccer or basketball training, get your kids to do something useful and learn first aid! :)

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snakes, spiders and jellyfish are not the biggest danger facing kids in OZ, they are only a minor hazard compared to the dangers of drowning or car accidents, more kids are killed and injured by dog attacks in OZ then snakes or spiders.