Okay a little back story:
I have a globe lamp out over the patio at the back of my flat.
For the last 2 nights a spider, about 3cms in length, if you go leg tip to leg tip, has been making a web around the lamp. This lamp is always covered and buzzed by mosquitoes and moths. It has been building its web with optimism that the buggers will fly into it (I was backing its fight, ‘cos they get on your nerves after a while)
Just went out to the patio and it is dead, dead as that bloody parrot…. and want to know what it has been killed by? I know what you are thinking a giant of a fanged beast; fangs dripping with green venom, a killer that takes no prisoners….. actually no, no where near. It is a 1.5mm spider, a little cute thing.
Like Kermit the frog with an Uzi!
Ok a little back story:
I have suffered from 2 bites, itchy and swelled up to be a 3 inch x 2 inch red swollen lump.
These were mosquito bites……
Anyway, yesterday one of the girls at work was screeching because there was a spider in her office…. known as a jumping spider. I was like “it’s little, what are you screeching about? It’s not like a it’s a Red Back!”
Anyway, Lisa turned round and said to me that they bite, and the bite inflames to a itchy swelling about 3 inches x 2 inches…..
Well, I have these little bastards in my flat, and I have now realised that I have been bitten (twice) by them.
So I have been bitten by a spider in Australia, least it wasn’t a Red Back 
Not in the bush, outback or even in the parks but….. in your home in Perth!
The males grow to about 12mm, the females to 20mm. You can’t just look for a web to see them, instead they wander slowly around at night searching for prey.
White Tails will shelter under almost anything, including clothes left on the floor and you are advised to not leave clothes on the floor (won’t be doing that from now on) and to check between your bed sheets before getting into bed.
The major effects from a bite were local pain, a red mark, local swelling, and itchiness, rarely systemic effects of nausea, vomiting, malaise, or headache occurred, however in very rare cases arachnogenic necrosis. Although cases still have not been confirmed 100%, but they have been known
