Killer Spiders Attack Ireland

D1stant

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/poisonous-false-widow-spiders-spread-across-ireland-29668336.html

WTF has the Irish (In)descended into?

Dramatic headlines peters out into "eh you might feel a bit of a sting like"

Just bloody merge with the Irish Sun innit

Daemos

You're the only one using the word 'killer' there, mate

The Big Smoke

Bloody tabloids spinning their web of lies...

keith16

I for one welcome our new......ah forget it.

Howard Juneau

A 'False Widow" spider?
Fckin immigrant spiders coming over here & making false claims for the widows pension!
They should go back to where they came from!

dobman88

Doesn't mention the word killer once OP, where is your evidence of this outlandish claim. Poor spiders

SV

D1stant wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/poisonous-false-widow-spiders-spread-across-ireland-29668336.html

WTF has the Irish (In)descended into?

Dramatic headlines peters out into "eh you might feel a bit of a sting like"

Just bloody merge with the Irish Sun innit

I take it you're getting a job with them?

michellie

As if the regular spider Fu©kers we have aren't bad enough.

KilOit

Meh, harmless to be honest, hopefully they like their new home and cull the wasp and flies for next summer

timthumbni

One of the videos in that article is called"how to kill a false widow spider"

Surely this isn't part of the independent article or is this video spam pop ups? The spider is about the size of your fingernail. Why would you need instruction on how to kill it?

Its about as dangerous as a wasp. In fact less so as wasps actually seem to attack, attack, attack.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hogwash, if bitten it's no worse than a bee sting. Beestings kill people allergic to them, so watch out killer bees are everywhere!

humbert

a large dose of venom close to the heart could cause palpitations and maybe you should go the hospital.

A bite from a false widow can cause serious allergic reactions – however they are not as venomous as the black widow.

And while there is no documented evidence that they won't murder you and your family with a machete we are informed that there are, as yet, no confirmed reports of this happening.

galwayrush

Only took the paper about 150 years to report their arrival..:pac::pac:

biko

Non news really.
Australia, that's where it at!

Not for sissies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1Bb9YQYtU

sok2005

We had one in our house last week! Horrible bulbous creatures, it was transported out to our garden so quickly.

Cody Pomeray

Speaking on the Derek Mooney show, Irish arachnologist Myles Nolan explained the spider doesn't pose too much of a danger.

"They don't leap at people from trees or anything like that.

some consolation, I suppose... hopefully they'll just eat us in our sleep

Reindeer

I had one of these bounce off me the last time I was strolling to the corner shop in Texas:

http://static-wtb.cheshirecat.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dobsonfly_handful.jpg

Archeron

Reindeer wrote: »

I had one of these bounce off me the last time I was strolling to the corner shop in Texas:

http://static-wtb.cheshirecat.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dobsonfly_handful.jpg

Awwww, I hope you kept it and named it fuzzy mandibles.

cml387

Apparently, nobody has been killed by the funnel web spider since the anti-venom was developed in 1981.

Reindeer

Archeron wrote: »

Awwww, I hope you kept it and named it fuzzy mandibles.

It's dead. I killed it with fire.

MadsL

Reindeer wrote: »

I had one of these bounce off me the last time I was strolling to the corner shop in Texas:

http://static-wtb.cheshirecat.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dobsonfly_handful.jpg

So F*ck Texas!! What the hell is that thing anyway?

I have real black widows in my garden, they make a satisfying roasting noise when I apply a blowtorch to them to ensure I get all the widdle babbies which have just as potent a bite as mama.

Oddly, Daddy is rarely around...

An Riabhach

Spiders??

I'd be more worried about disease-riddled mice and rats that can and will invade our homes....

Cabbit_234

There is a similar epidemic of red back spiders invading Tokyo and Japan from Australia at the moment. At least over there they have the radiation at Fukushima to get rid of them.