Calling all arachnophiles!

Would I be right in assuming that there are no particularly venomous
spiders in Warwickshire?
And that even if they can draw blood and sting like a nettle there will
be no permanent damage....

That'll teach me to pick up a lump of wood in the garage and start
fettling SO Italian machinery.

 

Unlikely to do you any real harm. Unless of course it's found it's way into
the country by other means... But as a rule you'd have been too fucked up
to type and send this post - so I wouldn't worry

 

It might be tourist.

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Wasp Spider?

We have a few around here and they bite.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=479750&in_page_id=1770

 

If you die, can I have your bike?

I'm amazed that a spider native to this country has jaws that can
actually penetrate human skin, so it might be an exotic import.

 

Plenty of them can. See
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/insects-spiders/spiderbites/index.html

Even money spiders can cause a rash apparently...

 

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Ooo-er, that's a nasty looking thing.

"While they can bite, the creatures are not poisonous"

I thought *all* spiders were poisonous. It's just that only a few have
poison powerful to hurt humes.

 

Blimey. You live and learn. Thanks for that.

I'll be a bit more careful in the garage tomorrow, then.

 

There are all kinds of foreign creatures and illnesses that are rare and
not widely reported.

I can cite malaria as one instance. I read a while back that outbreaks
of such could recur in our beloved marshes. A lazy google reveals
this:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romney_Marsh#Malaria>

 

The swelling and throbbing only lasted an hour or so.
I think I'll keep it as a pet.
It looks like some form of wolf spider so it must have got lucky
and found some thin skin. It definitely penetrated the skin as there
were two puncture wounds and blood, and it had some weak venom.

Would you really want my bike? One is 17 and the other is 22.

 

So long as it's not a Brown Recluse...

What's their names?

 

Ooerr.

I got bit by one that leapt from a fusebox I was replacing a couple of
months ago. 'kin sore it was.
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Is it just me or are the spiders getting more dangerous lately?

"It's all this unmanaged immigration I tell you"

"There will be rivers of blood. And puss. And poison. and, well, *stuff*"

 

For some reason, this really made me giggle.

 

Brown Recluse? You've been watching too much Venom ER on the telly.
Do you always laugh when they mention Sean Bush?

Isn't it a girly trait to name your machines?

 

That'll have been the Money spider...