Deadly widow weaves web across Britain

Oh I can believe that If I as much as see a spider in our bedroom at night, I won't go to bed until my husband has caught it and put it outside We get absolutely huge ones. There was one last year I think, which was nearly the size of my hand! My Gran in Durham gets giant ones too- at any time you could walk into the bathroom there and there would be 2 or 3 massive ones. *shudders* I used to have a sofabed that rested right on the floor. One night, the biggest freakin' spider you've ever seen crawled across my leg. I did not sleep in my room for about a week. I have a place in Wiltshire, out i... [More]

Lets be thankful we dont live in Austrailia where they have the funnel web spiders, Brazil has the bananna spiders and both those have the potential to be leathel, I live in Australia and I only think I've seen those funnel webs get this big in the zoos. They arn't a commonplace around Melbourne, come here, not Sydney where they are said to be in larger numbers.

And if it makes anyone feel better no one has died from a funnel web in the last 27 years (literally since the anti-venom became available). If you want see and intimidating set of chelicerae though, not much out does the mouse spiders. or the purseweb spiders like this

Dear God, stop the world, I wanna get off! *shudders*

Dear God, stop the world, I wanna get off! *shudders* I won't you that we have pursewebs in the UK then

I don't wanna know! *puts mattshark on ignore*and his sick pictures too* lol

Seriously tho... the Purseweb Spider isn't poisonous, or deadly, surely? There are no such deadly wildlife predators in England, including snakes; that humans have to worry about. er... right?

Seriously tho... the Purseweb Spider isn't poisonous, or deadly, surely? There are no such deadly wildlife predators in England, including snakes; that humans have to worry about. er... right? No it is not deadly, venomous yes, all spiders are venomous, but their venom is not based around killing us hence so few spiders are considered medically important and even less are considered deadly. The UK generally lacks dangerous animals, we have 1 venomous snake and that is not likely to ever kill you (it can kill a small child). We have no large carnivores (our largest at present is the badger) A r... [More]

woo! i hate spiders but they are necessary i suppose

woo! i hate spiders but they are necessary i suppose Not in my house they ain't!! I have spoken!