@ilove2patch wrote:
We get the false widow spiders down here so have to be a bit careful as their bite can be nasty!
I have been bitten by those twice; the first time was when I sat on a garden chair without realising one of them was underneath it and it went chomp chomp chomp across four inches of my leg; it took three months for all the swelling and itchiness to completely go and the second time it was a single bite from a smaller one but still took nearly two months for all traces to go...
A couple of years ago we had to have the house fumigated because the things were starting to get inside. There are lots of them round here but fortunately they do tend to stay in one place for a long time once they've made a web rather than move around a lot like other spiders do. Their webs are a very distinctive cross between sheet webs ( the sort that house spiders spin ) and random tangles so it is not too difficult to be aware of where they are.
