Watch out, the black widow's sister is ready to bite you

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 17/11/2006 | David Sapsted

[exnavy]

Yesterday I had a hangnail because of global warming.

[Mrs Ivan]

Glo-bull warming truly is the cause of all ills. Not.

[exnavy]

You can't make this stuff up!

[Mrs Ivan]

I'm quite sure that it was global warming that caused me to lose my house keys last week.

[exnavy]

LOL

[Stentor]

But before evidence there comes indicators.

Do you mean omens? Are you a seer?

[MamaTexan]

I'm thankful that we don't have much in the way of poisonous creatures in the UK.

Lucky you. Here in Texas, if it walks, crawls or flys, it's probably poisonous!

:-)

[WestCoastGal]

"The false widow spider, a relative of the black widow, bit Jason Fricker, 34, three times on the chest and stomach after it fell down the front of his shirt a week ago"

OUCH!!!

I hate spiders....... we have tarantulas and other critters here including the brown recluse which I haven't seen..thankfully!!

The tarantulas are ugly as heck but usually will back off if you scare them!!

[PeterPrinciple]

A man spent three days in hospital after being bitten by a venomous spider now spreading across the country because of global warming.


Prove it

NOtice that the doctor commented that this was the first time he had seen it.

[freedom moose]

bitten by a venomous spider now spreading across the country because of global warming.
Oh I see...global warming's causing it. Well since global warming "might" be going to make southern Europe colder, I now think I might be beginning to understand why there are so many more polar bears roaming around on the beach near my house.

[freedomlover]

The false widow spider, a relative of the black widow, bit Jason Fricker, 34, three times on the chest and stomach after it fell down the front of his shirt a week ago

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I had a spider fall into my shirt while I was UNDER A CAR working on a car creeper.

I got one teeny spider bite which no one noticed - but they did notice the black eye and gash across my face I gave myself trying to get my shirt off while stuffed under a 64 Valiant

[Mrs. P]

Andy, you are bad!

I was shopping a couple of years ago at a store way up in the U.P. and a lady came up behind me and said I better be checking those bananas very carefully, her sister had taken home a big spider the week before in her bananas from that very store! I dropped my bananas and jumped back! Ever since, I have been parking far away from the banana racks and checking over my fruit really carefully. The bananas, I mean.

[thackney]

ping

[Gritty]

Brown Recluse Spider

[JZelle]

How about George Galloway?

[Mrs Ivan]

I would run screaming from the room if I saw one of those.

[RandallFlagg]

I'll take a black widow bite over a recluse any day.

We need more mantids. Spiders suck!

[Mrs Ivan]

I'll take a black widow bite over a recluse any day.

The stories that people have been telling about their experiences with those things are totally gruesome.

[najida]

I'm so used to bugs, I don't give them a second thought.....I have Weaver Spiders all over my yard and porch....

Believe me, when I see wasps in their webs, I thank the ole girls :)

[Mrs Ivan]

Spiders are really the things that make me shudder - especially when the legs are all spindly and out of proportion to the body - the tiny ones I don't mind.

I think the laundry spiders (as I call them) did a great job keeping the bitey flying insects out of the house this summer, but ewwww, they still scare me.