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Dangerous Spiders on Irish soil?

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  • #32
    m@cc@
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    Stephentlig wrote: »
    do you think Ireland has ever had itself any dangerous Spiders settle in the country?

    Nah, I'd say they didn't like the look of the place and moved on.


  • #33
    Abelloid
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    Nulty wrote: »
    An Australian guy living in Ireland saw a spider about 6 months ago, caught it and sent it in for tests. He said it was a Redback spider - a very dangerous spider in Sydney and cousin of the Black Widow. I read it in the newspaper who reported the story despite the scientists reporting that it wasn't a "Redback" it was just an Irish spider impersonating a redback. A looky-likey if you will.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0825/breaking61.html

    The only chance of there being a lethal spider in Ireland is if they come in through banana boxes. When I worked in a supermarket I found some MONSTER spiders. They were always dead when I found them but some (liars) at work said they had found ones still alive.

    That story prompted me to contact Dublin Zoo to ID the spiders I found -

    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/JustinOval/8f225fb6.jpg

    False widows.


  • #34
    Practical
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    I found spiderbaby in my shed in late february... "it's got the head of a spider and the body of a spider, but the mind of a baby"


  • #35
    Memnoch
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    I believe it was the bite of an immigrant, poison spider that infected the first priest with the homosexuality disease that resulted in the child abuse scandal.


  • #36
    Luke92
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    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/toxic-spider-bite-killed-irishman-at-his-home-30522871.html

    Looks like you can get some nasty ones here!


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  • #37
    miss no stars
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    got bitten by a wolf spider in the states. Swelled up like crazy and hurt like hell. Got bitten by a spider here a year later. also hurt like hell and swelled even bigger. Often wonder if I've been sensitized to spider bites :-/


  • #38
    Tail Docker
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    Luke92 wrote: »
    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/toxic-spider-bite-killed-irishman-at-his-home-30522871.html

    Looks like you can get some nasty ones here!

    That story was on the front page of one of the red-tops today. But that's in Cork. Sure that's a whole other world of its own.


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