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sithmaster676: (17. Sep 2007 07:37)

a few days back when i found a spider in my house because it was in an difficult place to get to i used a pair of tweezers and i could hear the spider trying to bite the metal tweezers it sounded like a scraping noise but this is the first time a spider has ever tried to fight back against me.
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Lowth01: (17. Sep 2007 13:10)

This is how i get rid of parasites. I freeze the insect first (much to my mothers annoyance lol) Then place the insect in boiling water. I hope this is the kindest way to kill them as I believe they are in like a stupor/sleep so they dont feel anything... I hope.

Pugberto: (17. Sep 2007 19:55)

there is only one spider in the UK that has strong enough fangs to pierce human skin and that is the red/pink woodlouse spider, its bite isnt any worse than a single nettle sting, Dysdera crocata, you wont usually find them in ur house however, they are not a very common spider

Hate to break it to but there are now 3 types of Venomous Spiders now Britain, all through importation. One being the Brazilian Wandering Spider, the most dangerous spider in the world. The venom can kill with in 2 hours after the bite. There are two others one of which being known as the Recluse Spider, which does a lot of damage to human tissue if untreated. The last one I can't remember but it can make you seriously ill. These Spiders have made base camp in Dorset, living in homes during the winter and then making there way into the gardens in summer looking for new homes. They are spreading along the south coast and there population is believed to be in the 100's of thousands now.

I read it on an article on the BBC website and another one from the Natural History News.

Kiam: (17. Sep 2007 19:58)

Is this the giant fat orange spider?

It has white stomach red legs and is slow movement? Because ive seen lots off them

sithmaster676: (17. Sep 2007 20:14)

wow having poisonous spiders inside Britain isn't a very good thing, especially if they are in peoples homes during the winter, because Britain's hospitals haven't got the right methods of treating these because there used to be no need to now i think the NHS might have to do something
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miszt: (17. Sep 2007 21:49)

interesting thanks Pugberto

we've had quiet a few insects migrate to the UK, including Tiger Mosquitos (that carry various diseases, inc malaria), various Scorpians are resident in London, particuly the Docklands area, I found one on my garden wall once a few years ago, n not an insect, but hteres Wallabes living wild around Milton Keens (however u spell that)...cant image why they'd wana live there, but hey

miszt: (17. Sep 2007 21:50)

wow having poisonous spiders inside Britain isn't a very good thing, especially if they are in peoples homes during the winter, because Britain's hospitals haven't got the right methods of treating these because there used to be no need to now i think the NHS might have to do something
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most major cities will have antidotes to poisons that are produced by research facilities @ various univercities, a friend of myne was bitten by a black widow (for some strange reason he had one) and was treated fairly quickly

sithmaster676: (17. Sep 2007 22:13)

well thats good but it is true that england is properly the country which mainly researches a lot of things such as antidotes and many other things especially at oxford university.
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