Female Red-Back on a broom handle...IN OUR GARDEN
Near-Death 3: Red-Back Spider 10cm from potentially my Bottom
Yesterday Andy hosed off all our garden furniture as Carol and Ian are coming round for Easter tea and we haven’t cleaned the chairs for a while. It was then that he spotted a big female Red-Back spider, along with a couple of egg sacks there. The Red-Back is related to the Black Widow, and is the most dangerous spider in Australia. How wonderful if all the eggs had hatched too!! The spider was right under the back of the chair and the size of it would almost certainly have injected a deadly amount of venom. Reassuringly though – no deaths have been reported since the introduction of an anti-venom in 1956.
Yesterday Andy hosed off all our garden furniture as Carol and Ian are coming round for Easter tea and we haven’t cleaned the chairs for a while. It was then that he spotted a big female Red-Back spider, along with a couple of egg sacks there. The Red-Back is related to the Black Widow, and is the most dangerous spider in Australia. How wonderful if all the eggs had hatched too!! The spider was right under the back of the chair and the size of it would almost certainly have injected a deadly amount of venom. Reassuringly though – no deaths have been reported since the introduction of an anti-venom in 1956.
2 comments:
I laughed when I saw this because my kids assume all spiders are Red Back Spiders. Even the tiniest of black spiders are potentially worth screaming about.
Ohmigawd Helen, after that performance you're in danger of having the shortest stay in Australia since the guy who was asked at Immigration if he had a criminal record and told them: "I didn't know you still needed one!" ;-)
Good to see someone is as lazy with their blogging as I am. LOL.
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