It's the third leg that tends to run the other 2...

Redbacks - haven't seen one in VIC in 10 years.

It's crazy - I stumble around everywhere barefoot, no gloves, in side cavities - never look for any wildlife now...

About 3 years after moving here, I was bitten by a redback lurking in the fabric of an outdoors chair. It was identified as a male, but I still had a bad reaction and spent a few hours in hospital being observed. I was told that I was lucky that it was a male. Now there's white tip spiders here and the thought of being bitten by one of them scares me witless. In this household, any spider indoors is killed and OH also kills any lurking on the outside of the house and brushes any cobwebs away.

Yes I've got a dread of whitetails as well, although thank God never seen one where I live. My sister used to get a lot in her old house. I saw one on clothing in a Vinnies shop once and told the lady at the counter and she said "What's a whitetail?" They do lurk in old clothes so beware of buying stuff in Vinnies etc.

I found one in the cuff of one of my DS's shirts not long after we moved here And then, having seen lots of baby spiders running along the ceiling of DD's bedroom, we had a good clear out of her room and found a nest on her bedside lampshade where it was touching the wall. Needless to say, we had a right good spray around.


* this was only a couple of months after our stuff had arrived so not as if we were living in a pit. We ain't mingers

We've just moved house but we had a few white tails in the last house. They seemed to appear fairly regularly, always on the floor.

had a white tail in the bed a few years ago that I rolled on and squashed in the night and got bitten, I had a reaction and got a small hole forming but antibiotics sorted it out.

The redbacks never come indoors just the huntsmen and whitetips

Hi

In regards to White Tail spider bites. It's an urban myth with regards to them causing necrotic/ulcerating wounds. Yes they can and do sometimes bite but then caused small inflamed area, maybe painful or itchy, similar in appearance to a mozzi bite.

The following is a paper which reviewed 130 confirmed white tail spider bites, none of which resulted in the hideious wounds that the media readily report; White-tail spider bite: a prospective study of 130 definite bites by Lampona species. Geoffrey K Isbister and Michael R Gray: Med J Aust 2003; 179 (4): 199-202.

Or download the article here: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2003/...ampona-species

Cheers

John

we get the redbacks in the garden furniture which I don't like. I have some photos of a really big momma with a skink in her web, I killed her babies as the egg balls were enormous!

I use barrier spray around the doors and windows

Had one living on the inside of the garage door for years. They are in the garage but they prefer to get out of your way than bite. Have come in to close contact with them numerous times. Once picked up a box in the garage and one ran out the top but again ran away from me / wanted to get away. I guess the greatest danger is you don't see them and you put your hand or something on them, but they aren't baddies.

Now funnel webs!!!!!!!!! These big nasty feckers have great big fangs and are aggressive and will actually chase you down and are really fast and will kill you very quickly if you don't get help!

See one of them get the **** out of there.

Yeah, last year was the closest I'd come to getting bitten. I noticed a bit of webbing on the clothes peg basket and brought it in to the laundry room to run under the tap and the owner of said web, a very ticked off redback, ran along the edge of the basket and right by my fingers before I shook him down the drain.

Just squished a large white tail in the hall last night. Largest one in the house so far. Ugh. Ah, summer.

We have redbacks in the garage, we don't bother each other. If you happen to find a Funnel Web around Sydney do try to capture it, you'll need to put it in a container with some damp soil. The Reptile Park at Gosford milks them for their poison which is used to create Antivenom. Their phone number is (02) 4340 1022 but they have arrangements where you can drop off the Funnel Web at some local place such as a hospital.

Try to capture a funnel web, are you insane

If a funnel web comes anywhere near me the **** will be stomped in to the dirt............... or I would run away like a coward and get my wife to sort it out...which is much more likely

How many blokes send their wife downstairs if they hear a noise int he night as well lol

Don't, whatever you do, use a plastic container to try and catch it though (well, not a takeaway kind of plastic, you'd probably be okay with a good quality tupperware plastic) because the big buggers will bite right through it.

The big ones can bite through a chicken skull and probably a human finger nail. There's a YouTube on how to safely catch them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB9RDgbecVg

Absobloodylutely!