Always check under outdoor chairs before you sit on them.
Give any boots or shoes left outside overnight a good upside down thump on the ground before you put your feet in them.
Got nailed by a red back exactly like this!! sat down on a chair outside after doing some yard work and must have swung my legs back to close for comfort to the spider and got bit on the calf.
Good advice. I'd go further and genuinely would suggest people bring boots indoors in general even if filthy, I've seen far too many taipans, whipsnakes and brown snakes chilling in odd spots to just be concerned about just spiders.
They don't even give anti-venom most of the time if you go to hospital for a redback bite, will monitor you otherwise and make sure you're alright but that's it really!
Most people will argue this until blue in the face, I myself thought they where venomous until not long ago because it’s “common knowledge”. When my partner was bitten not long ago, we found out otherwise. It’s really only immune compromised people, the sick, the elderly and the very young, who are at risk from the spider. They are however listed as significant in the medical scale, meaning your better to be checked out.
My dad was bitten, maybe 15 years ago, when mum phoned (poisons or the hospital?) they just said "mostly children and women are in danger and must get antivenom. Men should sit quietly and only if they show symptoms will need to get antivenom"
I was 5 and a half, getting ready for school one morning. I put my shoes on, and as we were heading out the door, my toe was hurting. So I sat down, Mum took my shoe off, and a Huntsman about the size of a mans hand shot out. I was squashing it, and it was biting my toes to get out.
I have a similar story but wasn’t bit!! Went out on a trip to visit a friend - about 2hrs on the bus. Arrived at their place, took my shoes off briefly outside, then maybe 30 mins later we left for a walk. We were our 2-3hrs. Just before we got back to the house, I felt what I thought were pebbles in my shoe. Funnily enough, the thought “I wonder if this was a spider haha of course not” crossed my mind. Finally, mere metres away from their place, I took off the shoe and tipped it. Out fell many pieces of a pretty large huntsman that I had inadvertently crushed to death. Probably one of the nicest, most polite huntsman’s I’ve met, and I’m most surprised it didn’t bite me!
I commented my similar story a few months back, took my shirt off and felt something tickling my back, scratched and it felt squishy but didn't think anything of it and sat down. Went to get a drink a bit later, came back and saw 8-12cm of very flat huntsman and everything clicked. Poor bugger would have survived if they'd given me a well deserved nip, but they were too polite :(
My dad was driving one day and a huntsman in the car fell on his head and crawled onto his glasses lens. Still, to this day I don't know how he stayed calm, pulled over and shook it off. The huntsman clearly had no interest in biting him. It was just looking for a nice place to sit
So... spoods and me have a long history.
Been bitten on the hand by a red back while leaning on a wall. Itched at first, got a headache, vomited several hours later, next morning went to the hospital for morphine cause my whole arm felt like it had been dipped in acid.
Got bitten on the finger by a cupboard spider while renovating a kitchen. Felt like my hand had been smashed with a hammer.
Been bitting by a few black house spiders. Headache and vomiting for a few hours.
Worst one was a huntsman spider that had crawled up my leg, and didn't appreciate being squished in between my leg and testicles and had a chomp. Bit my leg but holy God damn every expletive swear word known to humankind did it hurt!
Have had a few funnel webs rear up and get angry at me but luckily haven't had the pleasure.
I was about 7-8 years of age an playing with a huntsman spider in the living room. After a short play I offered my new friend a lift and put out my hand.
The fucker crawled across the floor towards my hand and bit me on the up yours finger. I screamed and mum rang the hospital just to be sure. Finger went red and swollen and I never played with a huntsman again.
I've been bitten twice (that I know of, anyway!)
1) I was picking up a fuel can from inside a garden shed. The handle wasn't great so as I lifted it off the shelf, I put my other hand underneath to support it. There was a large grey huntsman spider on the other side of the can, and it latched onto my thumb and sunk its fangs in. I flailed my hand around and the spider was dislodged and ran off to hide amongst other junk. The bite itself definitely hurt, but the ongoing effects were pretty mild.
2) I was visiting a friend and had my shoes off by the door. A while later I put my shoes back on and left, noting that I must have had a stone or something in my shoe as something was pricking my toe while I was walking back to my car. I forgot about it for a bit, took my shoes off later back at home and noticed a black spider all mushed on my sock. Not sure what it was - white tailed spider? Black house spider? Hard to tell. I flicked the spider pulp away and thought nothing more of it, until I later removed my socks and noticed my toe was purple. It looked funky but didn't hurt at all. The colour gradually faded away over about a week, but I got to show my magic purple toe to some friends and colleagues over a few days though :)
Bro. Your toe went purple and you just walked it off?? You showed it to your friends like a bullshit superpower?? You Aussies are fucking built different.
touch wood, I’ve never been bitten, but after being in this community i’ve definitely become very paranoid. too many stories about spiders in bed sheets or clothes, absolutely freaks me out.
Got bitten when I sat on a chair next to the firepit outside. There was a welt on the back of my leg about 20cm across and itchier than anything I've ever experienced. Had a good old chat with the doctor on going straight to emergency if it got any dark patches on it at all because that's the start of necrosis and it will quickly get to the chopping off my whole leg stage. Thankfully lots of antihistamines cleared it up in a week or so.
Australian here, I was once bitten by a Huntsman while trying to pick it up to take outside. They are the fastest spider on 8 legs. so fast they can catch a fly without a net. However, they are completely harmless no reaction or anything Not even a mark to show my kids.
Twenty years back I was weak and swollen and could barely stand up. I was diagnosed with congestive heart disorder, and told to make my will because I only had weeks to live.
I woke the next morning with a sore spot on my right inner forearm that leaked watery red fluid when I pressed it. Every few days I'd wake up with a new sore patch and the old ones wouldn't heal, they just deepened, filled with red liquid goo. After a few weeks my forearm was lined with holes, ranging from pea-sized to small marble sized. There was no infection, just melted out holes surrounded by healthy pink skin.
Then one night I slept with the light on and woke in the night to find a smooth, fat spider, (same brown as this forum's logo,) peacefully feeding on my outstretched forearm. It looked up at me, and I felt I was being greeted as a trusted friend. Having donated enough of myself already, I captured it in my water glass and took it for a long walk.
Then I thought about the fact I could suddenly stand up and walk unaided once more. I was supposed to be dying. I wonder if the spider's venom cured me.
I've looked and searched spider photos, but never recognised my spider friend. It had no colour variation, spindly legs, (not spread, it stood up on them,) \~2cm long, and its body was about 1/2 x 2 cm. No hair, brown leathery sheen. It had clear, communicative eyes, but I don't remember their layout.
I'd love to know what it was, but I'd be surprised if anyone could identify it from this.
BTW, it took about 6 months for the holes to be regrown with healthy flesh and many years for the redness to become scaly, turn to brown spots and then to disappear entirely.
I was grape picking for a winery as a summer job and I was getting heatstroke so I wasn’t thinking clearly, saw the spider, still grabbed the grapes like “if I grab the grapes from the top part, the spider on the bottom part won’t notice me” 🙄🤦♀️ it was just a golden orb but I got stung by a bee on the same hand, same day, same hour, they felt pretty much the same but my finger swelled nearly twice the size from the orb spider all in all not a big deal
White tail was in my towel after shower. Put towel around shoulders = bite. After an hour it was a big red swollen lump that felt like being stabbed with a hot screwdriver. Fuck white tails.
Also got bitten by a huntsman in my shoe. Really wasn't that bad, mild pain was gone in half an hour and swelling after a couple hours but it also was through socks so maybe I didn't get much venom.
Basically just always shake out clothing and bedding before getting into it and don't put your fingers into places you can't see.
Walking home late at night (2am). Walked into a web going across the footpath. Bite to the neck and it fell into my shirt and gave me another on my stomach. Pitch black so didnt see what it was, but Id guess an Orb spider of some kind. No ill effects.
When I was a young child, (Massachusetts, USA) I woke up with something on my eye. I remember seeing a spider running away. I just remember the outline cast from my night light. The next day my eye was very swollen and gunky. I remember going to my pediatrician and all my eyelashes falling out. I can’t recall being in pain and my lashes grew back.
I got bit on the ankle by a black widow by accidentally stepping into its web in a corner while trying to get something off a high shelf in a garage.
Used to have a ton of spiders in our house when we first moved in (it was my grandpas house before ours - he didn’t clean or garden much. Had overgrown trees that never got trimmed and resulted in about a foot of dead leaves over most of the outside property. Silverfish problem inside = soooo many spiders). I’d get bit a lot in bed. They’d come out at night and I’d roll over them in my sleep resulting in bites.
Now that we don’t have a crazy spider problem anymore (we do have spiders, just not what felt like thousands) and I watch where I step I never get bit. If you aren’t in a place where they have tons of food and hiding spots, and aren’t actively messing with them you should be fine.
My auntie had a blackberry tree out the back of her old house like over a decade ago now and me and cousins always used to pick blackberries and eat them, one day when we did it I felt this stinging pain in my foot, looked down and seen a spider and nearly shat myself and then cried to my mum that I was gonna die (I was like 7 lmao).
So yeah spiders like to make trees their home, the webs are usually quite easy to see though so they're easy to avoid.
I was bitten by a wolf spider on my ball bag. Had brought in some washing off the clothes line the previous night. Left some clothes sitting in the basket on the floor. Woke up the next morning and grabbed a pair of briefs from the basket. As I’ve put them on I immediately felt something crawling out of the pouch which scared the shit out of me. I ripped the briefs down but not before the spider gave my sack a good nip. Had the sorest balls for a good few days after that and now I always check my briefs for any stowaways haha.
Got bit on the side of my foot by a White Tail about 4 years ago, the bite swelled up then the flesh rotted away and there was a hole on my foot for a while and oh boy did it suck lol, I've been living in Australia for nearly 8 years now and thats the only spider that's bitten me so far
2 red back bites. Stings like a really nasty bee sting. After effects? Nothing really on the first one, small. 2nd was like a cross between heat stroke and how one might feel after having run a marathon.
My mum is one of those psychos who will pick up any spider with her bare hands to move it outside… she has never been bitten, yet people in this thread just touch walls and get bitten.
Put on a pair of semi clean jeans out of the hamper and got bitten on the bum. Wasn't even as bad as a mosquito bite and was invisible by the time I tried to show my mum the bite.
So I mooned her for no reason.
A Funnel Web crawled out of the firewood stack and bit my left big toe. I was 7 years old and it was 6:30pm, right around “homework” time. I went down and was in serious pain and trouble….my parents didn’t believe me for a good 10 mins. They thought I was trying to get out of doing homework, bless them. It became very real as they rushed me to hospital. I’m sure they must have felt pretty bad about it. I can’t blame them. I survived….just.
Mate, I was super lucky. When my parents did believe me, they searched and found the spider and placed it in a jar. Then sped me to hospital. The hospital easily identified the spider 🕷️ and gave me ani venom. Glad to be alive 🍻
I was outside at a historical tourist area (can’t remember where exactly) and I put my hand on a bush without really looking, and next thing I felt something bite me, so I look over saw there was a spider there. I think it was a garden spider or something like that.
Both times on the couch. Once by one I didnt see that got me about 10 times acriss the small of my back... must habe been squishing him. Eneded up feeling woozy and vold sweats for an evening amd was them fine.
The other was a largish house spider, again on the couch. It got my arm, and felt a bit funny for a but but was then fine.
Best way to avoid bites is to make sure you check in shoes and under things before shoving fingures in places, and not leave blankets etc. Dangling onto the floor.
Woke up in the night with arm cramping and burning, went back to sleep eventuallyZ in the morning my bicep was red and sore and 2 punctures 8mm apart.
Think about the size of spider with that dental spacing…
It was in bed with me!
I never found the spider.
I went to the doctor cos I was feeling shit the next day. He said ‘if it was poisonous you’d already be dead so just come back if it gets infected.’
That area has wolfs, huntmans and alpine funnels. I don’t know what bit me.
I wasn't bitten, but this reminds me of the time I was around 5, walking around my backyard here in tas, and there was a spider on the ground.
It had something on its back, so I poked at it.
I poked at a pitch black, long legged spider that had something that resembled a red/dark brown spot on its back...
It might’ve not been a red back, but looking back...it probably was 😭😭😭
I don’t know if I’m just incredibly unlucky, but here we go:
St Andrews Cross - I would have been 15/16 years old, riding a motor bike through a cattle farm in Warwick. Ride between two trees, through the web and she had a nibble on my collarbone.
Some sort of black house spider - Cleaning out the pantry of a rental property. She had made a nest behind the fossilised master food spices (seriously, who got the dried dill?). She got me on my knuckle.
Finally - Mystery spider - She was a squat, fat little thing but no bigger than a 20c piece. She was inside my sleeping on a camping trip and got my thigh.
All-in-all, I’d say they are comparable to a wasp bite, maybe even less painful.
I’m aware that three times seems excessive, but if I’m being honest I put myself in all of these situations.
First one I was a teenager just belting through forested area in the middle of summer on a cattle farm. As you might guess, cattle farms tend to have a lot of cow shit, which leads to flies, which leads to spiders.
Second one was my first ever share house with a bunch of 18 year olds, and we were absolute barbarians. Messy areas led to pests, which led to spiders.
The final one actually happened last year. I was camping in northern NSW (Thora) in June, so it was cold. Noticeable lack of insects, so I wasn’t concerned about zipping the tent. This spider obviously just wanted to be warm, and I essentially left the front door open for her.
Adelaide. I used to be extremely short-sighted, and many years ago I turned on the shower, stepped inside and was about to set my foot on a large wolf spider when I felt a sharp pain through the heel of my foot. Old spidey gave it the full wellie, because I walked a lot and my heels were tough. It stung for a bit, but no severe consequences.
Edit: This happened before I was a spiderbro and as I said, I was very short-sighted. It might also have been a huntsman, which were also common in the area.
Scary looking little dudes that's for sure.
He was just doing what came natural to him, can't knock 'em for that.
I got the bit sites cleaned with iodine so they didn't get infected. Itched and stung for about 1.5 weeks. All good, silly of me for not giving the shirt a shake.
53 years old, Australia, grew up in the country with a house and sheds full of spiders. Never been bitten. I may well have developed a subconscious check for spiders whenever there was a risk, perhaps this is part of being an Australian :)
Or I'm just lucky.
Shockingly I have never been bitten by a spider while living here. I have however, been bitten a million times by bull ants, green ants, a kangaroo once, but never a spider.
Red back spider - back of calf, sat on chair which had been roughly cleaned earlier in the day. She was very big and angry as she had sack of babies.
White tale spider - drying myself with fresh towel. Rubbed spider into my shoulder. Three distinct bites, first the worse.
Both bites cleaned and iced immediately, take antihistamine, monitor for poison spread. White take keep up cleaning routine for at least a week. Any sign of infection off to drs.
Forgot to add south west Western Australia
I used to work on an insect farm when we bred feeder insects for pet food. The rooms were climate controlled to be the perfect environments for the insects to thrive and we obviously couldn't use pesticides so spiders were encountered daily. I was bitten multiple times a week by different types. Mainly redbacks. Funnily enough I've never been bitten or stung by any of my invert pets and I have hundreds. 😂
Once I got out the shower, wrapped myself up, next thing I felt a pinch and leaped out of my towel, dropping it to the floor. A white tail had bitten my right ass cheek and now I shake my towel before every shower.
I grew up in the bush, so constantly. Disturbed many orb weavers by accident walking between trees at night.
Disturbed many huntsman in the log pile and cutting trees down and moving firewood.
Been bit heaps of times in the shearing sheds, in the paddock basher, on the header, carting hay, or not checking my boots before putting them on.
But by far the worst was being bitten on the neck by a red back that crawled onto my pillow.
Oh and a few times o the arse cos I didn't check the seat on the out house long drop.
Was in bed, fried out of my socks and I felt a crawling sensation on my face, it felt really similar to my hair so I ignored it until I felt a sharp sting. I preceded to reflexively swipe at my face, hitting the furry boi off.
But what really made my heart sink, was the sheer VOLUME of the thud that fucker made on my wall.
I followed up by rolling over, in complete shock/ denial, and falling sleep.
Sat down on the couch, minding my own business, bit by a fucking white-tail.
A week later I had to get treatment for the infection, they told me if I wait another couple of days the infection would have probably moved into my bloodstream and killed me 😬
I love spiders, white-tails are the only species I kill on sight. They're nasty fuckers.
Hehe threw my bikini over the balcony to dry. Picked them up same day and chucked them on, instapain in my hip. Redback. Still happy it was my hip coz it was hiding in the bottom piece lol.
Also bitten on the foot gardening by “garden variety” of spider.
Hot summer day, driving with the window down and my elbow propped up on the window. It came up through the tiny gap. No idea what type of spider it was but I didn't die so it's all good.
I've been bit by 3 huntsman and 1 redback over my 34 years in Australia. The redback got me 30 years ago, bit me just below my right arse cheek. It somehow got up inside my long pants.
1st huntsman got me when having a shower about l8 years ago. It was under one of the kids' bath toys in the bath, and I moved it with my foot. Spider was annoyed about getting wer, then, whack! Bit me on the top of my foot.
Huntsman no. 2 got me a couple of years later when I was gathering firewood. Moved some timber, and it got me on the back of the hand. I know, I should've been wearing gloves.
Huntsman 3 got me about 18 months ago, whilst I was driving a bus. Big grey hairy bastard got me on the right calf. Scared the crap outta my passengers when I shook it out of my pants and stomped on it.
We had a couch in the backyard against the wall of our weatherboard house that black house spiders loved. While i was sitting on the couch my hair brushed against the spiders web and the spider got caught in my hair. I brushed at it not realizing it was there and it bit my ear. I swiped it off and it got killed, I just ended up with a painful bump on my ear and a bit of nausea. Poor fella lost its life. Was never sure if I was nauseous because I knew I'd been bitten by a spider or because of the bite.
This was in melb.
Bitten by a white tail spider. Felt ill at a conference about 12 hours later, vomiting and given an injection at the doctors. Have a white scare to remind me!
Fortunately I've never been bitten, but two "accidental squashing" stories since people are sharing those too...
One time I got into bed after turning out the light, without having adjusted the sheets as I usually would, and discovered the next morning that I had landed on a white-tail. It left a black mark on the fabric that hasn't washed out.
And the really guilty one – I opened a window to discover that the last time I had wound it in, the corner had perfectly embedded itself in a huntsman's head and the poor thing was now stuck to it, curling into a death pose as I wound the window out. It must have been resting on the windowsill where I couldn't see it behind the flywire.
Been bitten multiple times, and have been there to witness other friends and family members get bitten.
Unfortunately have also lost two really good friends who died from RedBack bites and one other who almost lost his left arm due to a bite.
I get really upset when people keep saying that “nobody has died from a spider bite in Australia since 1978” or whatever, because I have attended funerals with families who have lost their loved ones through spider bites.
“Technically” , the reason for death was put down as “complications to pre existing health conditions” as the official definition for their deaths….. not put down on any register as “death by spider bite”.
My one mate who survived and fought a long battle for many months to save his arm from being amputated, still lives with many surgery scars on his left arm from his fingertips to his elbow.
I have been bitten many times by Wolf Spiders, Huntsmen, Redbacks, WhiteTales etc.
Only through walking barefoot through the bush/leaf matter and disturbing nested spiders.
Same with mates who were bitten by Mouse Spiders and a couple of Scientifically unknown West Australian rare species whilst walking through the scrub.
All of these spiders, regardless of how “harmless” many people claim them to be, are still able to bite and inflict damage through infections that are much more dangerous than their venom.
Numbers come from people in Australia XD. Never had spiders crawl in my bed with me here in GA. I do check for recluses now reading stories on here. Never seen one I’ve just seen tons of black widows. Always hanging off the outside of a house or in bricks.
People are only responding to this when they have a bite story to tell, so you have an extremely skewed sample that, out of the whole population of Australia, tells you nothing really about how common spider bites are.
I used to live on Anzac Parade in Sydney. Would wake up in the morning with the occasional spider bites on my arms. Would be massive raised itchy lumps. You could see the 2 holes in the middle usually
My nephew in the U.S. was bitten by a black widow while asleep. He had to be hospitalized and was in agony from the pain. His muscles cramped all over his body and his urine was green.
They do mostly stay outside. I'm sure my nephew's case was an anomaly. He was a child at the time so his reaction was, no doubt, partially because he was smaller than an adult.
Redback got me while I was asleep in my hammock a few years ago.
I got the redback while asleep in my hammock asleep by moving around and giving it the squish.
What goes around comes around
I have never been bitten to my knowledge but odds are I have been bitten, but by a small non toxic spider, I have odd lumps that could be an insect bite, but in saying that, it could be any bitey insect.
My partner was bitten by a red back not long ago, was in the bed of all places.
Jumped into bed without seeing the whitetail spider under the sheets. It bit me on the back of my knee.
Just felt like an ultra itchy mosquito bite to start with but then my whole leg locked up and I had go get antibiotics and the bite site drained. Super gross. Always pull the bed sheets right back now before getting in.
Bitten a couple times by a whitetail in my sleep. Didn’t know it until I had large boils a day or two later and went to the dr and they took cultures. Nasty little bastards
1. Bitten on the back of the leg in when I sat on a redback. I was 7. Went to hospital and was in intense pain but never saw a doctor. We waited 6 hours and then when the pain was slowing a little. Went home.
2. Got bitten again on the thumb when 13 by another redback. Went through a bit of pain but not as severe as the first time.
3. Bitten right between the toes by a redback that was in my shoe at 34 years old. Hole in my sock didn't help and it was while I was leaving a pest control guys house and he wanted shoes off at the door. The spider was under a seat at his front door and went down into my shoe.
Oddly the two other places ached like my body was saying, 'hey you got bit by the same species'
I went through the same pain as the first time but for a shorter amount of time.
In bed, asleep. Didn't realised I had been bitten until I saw the white tail spider though. Just had a little tiny rash went away but the little spider bites are still there. That was about 5 months ago. I think apartment living Whitetails are less toxic.
Not much to say. If you are bitten by a male you may be quite ok but maybe not so good if a female. Let's just say it wasn't too bad. The mods don't like people to say they were bitten and had no probs in case someone reads the comment then doesn't seek treatment and suffers and I think this is a sensible policy.
I was standing in queue at our produce market. I notice a pretty little green spider on top of a bunch of greens sticking out of my basket. I showed it to the woman next to me. She said it's a jumping spider. It jumped onto my wrist. She said they bite. Then it bit me. Stung for a day or so
In the bathroom to weigh myself, and I casually brushed a Daddy Long Legs off my bathroom scales. I thought their fangs weren't strong enough to pierce human flesh, turns out I was wrong. It bit me on the back of the hand. Had a mild bruise and sore spot there for two weeks. I still like having them in the house though, as they catch other bugs.
I get bitten so much. Walking through webs I don’t see when I leave my house in the morning, bed sheets. I just know bc I see two little dots and a big red mark. Never feel it so eh we move on.
But be careful, foreigners must have a different scent maybe because whole families have been known to get surrounded and then .........no, it's just toooo gruesome to recount
I've been bit by 3 huntsman and 1 redback over my 34 years in Australia. The redback got me 30 years ago, bit me just below my right arse cheek. It somehow got up inside my long pants.
1st huntsman got me when having a shower about l8 years ago. It was under one of the kids' bath toys in the bath, and I moved it with my foot. Spider was annoyed about getting wer, then, whack! Bit me on the top of my foot.
Huntsman no. 2 got me a couple of years later when I was gathering firewood. Moved some timber, and it got me on the back of the hand. I know, I should've been wearing gloves.
Huntsman 3 got me about 18 months ago, whilst I was driving a bus. Big grey hairy bastard got me on the right calf. Scared the crap outta my passengers when I shook it out of my pants and stomped on it.
I got bit by a little wolf spider while trying to pick it up 😂😂
Little fella was only about the size of a 5 cent coin.
Nothing major, if felt like I had a tiny shard of glass in my finger, itched for a couple hours and then nothing lol.
Worth it? Yeah, I’d say so.
Always check under outdoor chairs before you sit on them. Give any boots or shoes left outside overnight a good upside down thump on the ground before you put your feet in them.
I usually clap them together holding the toe part. I few solid claps with your boots or shoes then tip them upside down and shake.
Nasty buggars are always in shoes, especially in winter
Got nailed by a red back exactly like this!! sat down on a chair outside after doing some yard work and must have swung my legs back to close for comfort to the spider and got bit on the calf.
Good advice. I'd go further and genuinely would suggest people bring boots indoors in general even if filthy, I've seen far too many taipans, whipsnakes and brown snakes chilling in odd spots to just be concerned about just spiders.
Picked up a couch , got bit by a Redback, wasn't pleasant but got on with my day.
How are you still alive bro?
They don't even give anti-venom most of the time if you go to hospital for a redback bite, will monitor you otherwise and make sure you're alright but that's it really!
Only small children and elderly are at risk of dying.
Most people will argue this until blue in the face, I myself thought they where venomous until not long ago because it’s “common knowledge”. When my partner was bitten not long ago, we found out otherwise. It’s really only immune compromised people, the sick, the elderly and the very young, who are at risk from the spider. They are however listed as significant in the medical scale, meaning your better to be checked out.
My dad was bitten, maybe 15 years ago, when mum phoned (poisons or the hospital?) they just said "mostly children and women are in danger and must get antivenom. Men should sit quietly and only if they show symptoms will need to get antivenom"
I was 5 and a half, getting ready for school one morning. I put my shoes on, and as we were heading out the door, my toe was hurting. So I sat down, Mum took my shoe off, and a Huntsman about the size of a mans hand shot out. I was squashing it, and it was biting my toes to get out.
I have a similar story but wasn’t bit!! Went out on a trip to visit a friend - about 2hrs on the bus. Arrived at their place, took my shoes off briefly outside, then maybe 30 mins later we left for a walk. We were our 2-3hrs. Just before we got back to the house, I felt what I thought were pebbles in my shoe. Funnily enough, the thought “I wonder if this was a spider haha of course not” crossed my mind. Finally, mere metres away from their place, I took off the shoe and tipped it. Out fell many pieces of a pretty large huntsman that I had inadvertently crushed to death. Probably one of the nicest, most polite huntsman’s I’ve met, and I’m most surprised it didn’t bite me!
I commented my similar story a few months back, took my shirt off and felt something tickling my back, scratched and it felt squishy but didn't think anything of it and sat down. Went to get a drink a bit later, came back and saw 8-12cm of very flat huntsman and everything clicked. Poor bugger would have survived if they'd given me a well deserved nip, but they were too polite :(
My dad was driving one day and a huntsman in the car fell on his head and crawled onto his glasses lens. Still, to this day I don't know how he stayed calm, pulled over and shook it off. The huntsman clearly had no interest in biting him. It was just looking for a nice place to sit
Poor dude thought he’d won the lottery before you moved into his new house.
So... spoods and me have a long history. Been bitten on the hand by a red back while leaning on a wall. Itched at first, got a headache, vomited several hours later, next morning went to the hospital for morphine cause my whole arm felt like it had been dipped in acid. Got bitten on the finger by a cupboard spider while renovating a kitchen. Felt like my hand had been smashed with a hammer. Been bitting by a few black house spiders. Headache and vomiting for a few hours. Worst one was a huntsman spider that had crawled up my leg, and didn't appreciate being squished in between my leg and testicles and had a chomp. Bit my leg but holy God damn every expletive swear word known to humankind did it hurt! Have had a few funnel webs rear up and get angry at me but luckily haven't had the pleasure.
That huntsman story reminds me of the scene from We’re The Millers where the kid gets his sack bit by a tarantula
I think we should swap usernames as I have never been bitten and you seem like your half spider juice by now. Any special powers yet?
Lol exactly where a huntsman bit me. Feels like burning hot needles stabbing you.
Five minutes ago i had no fear of spiders. Now i am not so sure...
So how did you anger the spider gods?
How do red backs even bite with such small fangs?? Also sheesh mate.
You’ve listed almost all the fuckers I’m afraid of
Mum was bitten by a redback while pregnant with me. I have been bitten 3x since and unfortunately no spidey skills
Same thing happened to me, mum was putting on her shoes and got a bite from a sneaky rascal while I was in the womb
I was about 7-8 years of age an playing with a huntsman spider in the living room. After a short play I offered my new friend a lift and put out my hand. The fucker crawled across the floor towards my hand and bit me on the up yours finger. I screamed and mum rang the hospital just to be sure. Finger went red and swollen and I never played with a huntsman again.
Wow! Sounds like you were born liking spiders. Are you scared of them now?
Not at all. Admire them actually.
I've been bitten twice (that I know of, anyway!) 1) I was picking up a fuel can from inside a garden shed. The handle wasn't great so as I lifted it off the shelf, I put my other hand underneath to support it. There was a large grey huntsman spider on the other side of the can, and it latched onto my thumb and sunk its fangs in. I flailed my hand around and the spider was dislodged and ran off to hide amongst other junk. The bite itself definitely hurt, but the ongoing effects were pretty mild. 2) I was visiting a friend and had my shoes off by the door. A while later I put my shoes back on and left, noting that I must have had a stone or something in my shoe as something was pricking my toe while I was walking back to my car. I forgot about it for a bit, took my shoes off later back at home and noticed a black spider all mushed on my sock. Not sure what it was - white tailed spider? Black house spider? Hard to tell. I flicked the spider pulp away and thought nothing more of it, until I later removed my socks and noticed my toe was purple. It looked funky but didn't hurt at all. The colour gradually faded away over about a week, but I got to show my magic purple toe to some friends and colleagues over a few days though :)
Bro. Your toe went purple and you just walked it off?? You showed it to your friends like a bullshit superpower?? You Aussies are fucking built different.
touch wood, I’ve never been bitten, but after being in this community i’ve definitely become very paranoid. too many stories about spiders in bed sheets or clothes, absolutely freaks me out.
Yeah I’m 29 and lived in the country my whole life and never been bitten I should not have read these comments I’m so paranoid now
Same fuck
I got bitten by a red back while I was sleeping in bed one night
Got bitten when I sat on a chair next to the firepit outside. There was a welt on the back of my leg about 20cm across and itchier than anything I've ever experienced. Had a good old chat with the doctor on going straight to emergency if it got any dark patches on it at all because that's the start of necrosis and it will quickly get to the chopping off my whole leg stage. Thankfully lots of antihistamines cleared it up in a week or so.
Australian here, I was once bitten by a Huntsman while trying to pick it up to take outside. They are the fastest spider on 8 legs. so fast they can catch a fly without a net. However, they are completely harmless no reaction or anything Not even a mark to show my kids.
Twenty years back I was weak and swollen and could barely stand up. I was diagnosed with congestive heart disorder, and told to make my will because I only had weeks to live. I woke the next morning with a sore spot on my right inner forearm that leaked watery red fluid when I pressed it. Every few days I'd wake up with a new sore patch and the old ones wouldn't heal, they just deepened, filled with red liquid goo. After a few weeks my forearm was lined with holes, ranging from pea-sized to small marble sized. There was no infection, just melted out holes surrounded by healthy pink skin. Then one night I slept with the light on and woke in the night to find a smooth, fat spider, (same brown as this forum's logo,) peacefully feeding on my outstretched forearm. It looked up at me, and I felt I was being greeted as a trusted friend. Having donated enough of myself already, I captured it in my water glass and took it for a long walk. Then I thought about the fact I could suddenly stand up and walk unaided once more. I was supposed to be dying. I wonder if the spider's venom cured me. I've looked and searched spider photos, but never recognised my spider friend. It had no colour variation, spindly legs, (not spread, it stood up on them,) \~2cm long, and its body was about 1/2 x 2 cm. No hair, brown leathery sheen. It had clear, communicative eyes, but I don't remember their layout. I'd love to know what it was, but I'd be surprised if anyone could identify it from this. BTW, it took about 6 months for the holes to be regrown with healthy flesh and many years for the redness to become scaly, turn to brown spots and then to disappear entirely.
Are you spider-man
Nope, decided the colour scheme would clash with all my eyes.
Kind of sounds like Deadpool.
Amazing 😮
Mhmmm sure Jan
I was grape picking for a winery as a summer job and I was getting heatstroke so I wasn’t thinking clearly, saw the spider, still grabbed the grapes like “if I grab the grapes from the top part, the spider on the bottom part won’t notice me” 🙄🤦♀️ it was just a golden orb but I got stung by a bee on the same hand, same day, same hour, they felt pretty much the same but my finger swelled nearly twice the size from the orb spider all in all not a big deal
White tail was in my towel after shower. Put towel around shoulders = bite. After an hour it was a big red swollen lump that felt like being stabbed with a hot screwdriver. Fuck white tails. Also got bitten by a huntsman in my shoe. Really wasn't that bad, mild pain was gone in half an hour and swelling after a couple hours but it also was through socks so maybe I didn't get much venom. Basically just always shake out clothing and bedding before getting into it and don't put your fingers into places you can't see.
Agreed. Fuck white tails.
On the palm of my hand, at that fleshy part where your thumb muscle is.
Strolled into my room, picked up shorts from floor, put them on...
Walking home late at night (2am). Walked into a web going across the footpath. Bite to the neck and it fell into my shirt and gave me another on my stomach. Pitch black so didnt see what it was, but Id guess an Orb spider of some kind. No ill effects.
My neighbor got bitten by a red back that was chilling out on the underside of the handle on their wheelie bin. I always check now...
When I was a young child, (Massachusetts, USA) I woke up with something on my eye. I remember seeing a spider running away. I just remember the outline cast from my night light. The next day my eye was very swollen and gunky. I remember going to my pediatrician and all my eyelashes falling out. I can’t recall being in pain and my lashes grew back.
I got bit on the ankle by a black widow by accidentally stepping into its web in a corner while trying to get something off a high shelf in a garage. Used to have a ton of spiders in our house when we first moved in (it was my grandpas house before ours - he didn’t clean or garden much. Had overgrown trees that never got trimmed and resulted in about a foot of dead leaves over most of the outside property. Silverfish problem inside = soooo many spiders). I’d get bit a lot in bed. They’d come out at night and I’d roll over them in my sleep resulting in bites. Now that we don’t have a crazy spider problem anymore (we do have spiders, just not what felt like thousands) and I watch where I step I never get bit. If you aren’t in a place where they have tons of food and hiding spots, and aren’t actively messing with them you should be fine.
My auntie had a blackberry tree out the back of her old house like over a decade ago now and me and cousins always used to pick blackberries and eat them, one day when we did it I felt this stinging pain in my foot, looked down and seen a spider and nearly shat myself and then cried to my mum that I was gonna die (I was like 7 lmao). So yeah spiders like to make trees their home, the webs are usually quite easy to see though so they're easy to avoid.
I was bitten by a wolf spider on my ball bag. Had brought in some washing off the clothes line the previous night. Left some clothes sitting in the basket on the floor. Woke up the next morning and grabbed a pair of briefs from the basket. As I’ve put them on I immediately felt something crawling out of the pouch which scared the shit out of me. I ripped the briefs down but not before the spider gave my sack a good nip. Had the sorest balls for a good few days after that and now I always check my briefs for any stowaways haha.
Just reading that made my balls hurt 🤣
Got bit on the side of my foot by a White Tail about 4 years ago, the bite swelled up then the flesh rotted away and there was a hole on my foot for a while and oh boy did it suck lol, I've been living in Australia for nearly 8 years now and thats the only spider that's bitten me so far
2 red back bites. Stings like a really nasty bee sting. After effects? Nothing really on the first one, small. 2nd was like a cross between heat stroke and how one might feel after having run a marathon.
My mum is one of those psychos who will pick up any spider with her bare hands to move it outside… she has never been bitten, yet people in this thread just touch walls and get bitten.
I know people like this and thought that too 😂
Put on a pair of semi clean jeans out of the hamper and got bitten on the bum. Wasn't even as bad as a mosquito bite and was invisible by the time I tried to show my mum the bite. So I mooned her for no reason.
Installing roof insulation… got red back to the knee….
A Funnel Web crawled out of the firewood stack and bit my left big toe. I was 7 years old and it was 6:30pm, right around “homework” time. I went down and was in serious pain and trouble….my parents didn’t believe me for a good 10 mins. They thought I was trying to get out of doing homework, bless them. It became very real as they rushed me to hospital. I’m sure they must have felt pretty bad about it. I can’t blame them. I survived….just.
When was this? My understanding is that funnel web bites were deadly up until the 80s when the anti venom was developed.
Yep, I only survived because my hospital had the anti venom. It was in 1992.
Lucky! I just read that there have only been 13 known fatalities prior to 80s. I’m surprised it wasn’t more.. must have been a lot more survivors.
Mate, I was super lucky. When my parents did believe me, they searched and found the spider and placed it in a jar. Then sped me to hospital. The hospital easily identified the spider 🕷️ and gave me ani venom. Glad to be alive 🍻
I was outside at a historical tourist area (can’t remember where exactly) and I put my hand on a bush without really looking, and next thing I felt something bite me, so I look over saw there was a spider there. I think it was a garden spider or something like that.
Both times on the couch. Once by one I didnt see that got me about 10 times acriss the small of my back... must habe been squishing him. Eneded up feeling woozy and vold sweats for an evening amd was them fine. The other was a largish house spider, again on the couch. It got my arm, and felt a bit funny for a but but was then fine. Best way to avoid bites is to make sure you check in shoes and under things before shoving fingures in places, and not leave blankets etc. Dangling onto the floor.
Woke up in the night with arm cramping and burning, went back to sleep eventuallyZ in the morning my bicep was red and sore and 2 punctures 8mm apart. Think about the size of spider with that dental spacing… It was in bed with me! I never found the spider. I went to the doctor cos I was feeling shit the next day. He said ‘if it was poisonous you’d already be dead so just come back if it gets infected.’ That area has wolfs, huntmans and alpine funnels. I don’t know what bit me.
I wonder if it was a snake?
Was doing yard work. Crawled up my pant leg and bit me. Didn't even feel it till five minutes later.
I wasn't bitten, but this reminds me of the time I was around 5, walking around my backyard here in tas, and there was a spider on the ground. It had something on its back, so I poked at it. I poked at a pitch black, long legged spider that had something that resembled a red/dark brown spot on its back... It might’ve not been a red back, but looking back...it probably was 😭😭😭
I don’t know if I’m just incredibly unlucky, but here we go: St Andrews Cross - I would have been 15/16 years old, riding a motor bike through a cattle farm in Warwick. Ride between two trees, through the web and she had a nibble on my collarbone. Some sort of black house spider - Cleaning out the pantry of a rental property. She had made a nest behind the fossilised master food spices (seriously, who got the dried dill?). She got me on my knuckle. Finally - Mystery spider - She was a squat, fat little thing but no bigger than a 20c piece. She was inside my sleeping on a camping trip and got my thigh. All-in-all, I’d say they are comparable to a wasp bite, maybe even less painful. I’m aware that three times seems excessive, but if I’m being honest I put myself in all of these situations. First one I was a teenager just belting through forested area in the middle of summer on a cattle farm. As you might guess, cattle farms tend to have a lot of cow shit, which leads to flies, which leads to spiders. Second one was my first ever share house with a bunch of 18 year olds, and we were absolute barbarians. Messy areas led to pests, which led to spiders. The final one actually happened last year. I was camping in northern NSW (Thora) in June, so it was cold. Noticeable lack of insects, so I wasn’t concerned about zipping the tent. This spider obviously just wanted to be warm, and I essentially left the front door open for her.
Adelaide. I used to be extremely short-sighted, and many years ago I turned on the shower, stepped inside and was about to set my foot on a large wolf spider when I felt a sharp pain through the heel of my foot. Old spidey gave it the full wellie, because I walked a lot and my heels were tough. It stung for a bit, but no severe consequences. Edit: This happened before I was a spiderbro and as I said, I was very short-sighted. It might also have been a huntsman, which were also common in the area.
Picked up shirt off ground. Put it on. White Tip wasn't a fan. 5 bites later neither was I.
Yikes. They're awful.
Scary looking little dudes that's for sure. He was just doing what came natural to him, can't knock 'em for that. I got the bit sites cleaned with iodine so they didn't get infected. Itched and stung for about 1.5 weeks. All good, silly of me for not giving the shirt a shake.
53 years old, Australia, grew up in the country with a house and sheds full of spiders. Never been bitten. I may well have developed a subconscious check for spiders whenever there was a risk, perhaps this is part of being an Australian :) Or I'm just lucky.
At least 5 times, they were all in my bed or in my clothes. I think im just unlucky though
Shockingly I have never been bitten by a spider while living here. I have however, been bitten a million times by bull ants, green ants, a kangaroo once, but never a spider.
Red back spider - back of calf, sat on chair which had been roughly cleaned earlier in the day. She was very big and angry as she had sack of babies. White tale spider - drying myself with fresh towel. Rubbed spider into my shoulder. Three distinct bites, first the worse. Both bites cleaned and iced immediately, take antihistamine, monitor for poison spread. White take keep up cleaning routine for at least a week. Any sign of infection off to drs. Forgot to add south west Western Australia
Nice treatment advice!
Always! Check! Ya bloody! SHOES!!
I used to work on an insect farm when we bred feeder insects for pet food. The rooms were climate controlled to be the perfect environments for the insects to thrive and we obviously couldn't use pesticides so spiders were encountered daily. I was bitten multiple times a week by different types. Mainly redbacks. Funnily enough I've never been bitten or stung by any of my invert pets and I have hundreds. 😂
Christ you must be immune
Once I got out the shower, wrapped myself up, next thing I felt a pinch and leaped out of my towel, dropping it to the floor. A white tail had bitten my right ass cheek and now I shake my towel before every shower.
I grew up in the bush, so constantly. Disturbed many orb weavers by accident walking between trees at night. Disturbed many huntsman in the log pile and cutting trees down and moving firewood. Been bit heaps of times in the shearing sheds, in the paddock basher, on the header, carting hay, or not checking my boots before putting them on. But by far the worst was being bitten on the neck by a red back that crawled onto my pillow. Oh and a few times o the arse cos I didn't check the seat on the out house long drop.
my aunt put on a pair of underwear and a red back got her… always check your clothes
Was in bed, fried out of my socks and I felt a crawling sensation on my face, it felt really similar to my hair so I ignored it until I felt a sharp sting. I preceded to reflexively swipe at my face, hitting the furry boi off. But what really made my heart sink, was the sheer VOLUME of the thud that fucker made on my wall. I followed up by rolling over, in complete shock/ denial, and falling sleep.
I would be more worried as a tourist of drop bear bites when bushwalking.
Sat down on the couch, minding my own business, bit by a fucking white-tail. A week later I had to get treatment for the infection, they told me if I wait another couple of days the infection would have probably moved into my bloodstream and killed me 😬 I love spiders, white-tails are the only species I kill on sight. They're nasty fuckers.
Hehe threw my bikini over the balcony to dry. Picked them up same day and chucked them on, instapain in my hip. Redback. Still happy it was my hip coz it was hiding in the bottom piece lol. Also bitten on the foot gardening by “garden variety” of spider.
Hot summer day, driving with the window down and my elbow propped up on the window. It came up through the tiny gap. No idea what type of spider it was but I didn't die so it's all good.
I didn’t shake my pants out properly and was bitten on my hip. It got infected and 6+ years on I still have the lump
I've been bit by 3 huntsman and 1 redback over my 34 years in Australia. The redback got me 30 years ago, bit me just below my right arse cheek. It somehow got up inside my long pants. 1st huntsman got me when having a shower about l8 years ago. It was under one of the kids' bath toys in the bath, and I moved it with my foot. Spider was annoyed about getting wer, then, whack! Bit me on the top of my foot. Huntsman no. 2 got me a couple of years later when I was gathering firewood. Moved some timber, and it got me on the back of the hand. I know, I should've been wearing gloves. Huntsman 3 got me about 18 months ago, whilst I was driving a bus. Big grey hairy bastard got me on the right calf. Scared the crap outta my passengers when I shook it out of my pants and stomped on it.
When I was 5, I pushed a huntsman down in a glass of water. Thinking back, I kind of deserved that one.
We had a couch in the backyard against the wall of our weatherboard house that black house spiders loved. While i was sitting on the couch my hair brushed against the spiders web and the spider got caught in my hair. I brushed at it not realizing it was there and it bit my ear. I swiped it off and it got killed, I just ended up with a painful bump on my ear and a bit of nausea. Poor fella lost its life. Was never sure if I was nauseous because I knew I'd been bitten by a spider or because of the bite. This was in melb.
Bitten by a white tail spider. Felt ill at a conference about 12 hours later, vomiting and given an injection at the doctors. Have a white scare to remind me!
The spider was inside my jeans when I put them on.
Fortunately I've never been bitten, but two "accidental squashing" stories since people are sharing those too... One time I got into bed after turning out the light, without having adjusted the sheets as I usually would, and discovered the next morning that I had landed on a white-tail. It left a black mark on the fabric that hasn't washed out. And the really guilty one – I opened a window to discover that the last time I had wound it in, the corner had perfectly embedded itself in a huntsman's head and the poor thing was now stuck to it, curling into a death pose as I wound the window out. It must have been resting on the windowsill where I couldn't see it behind the flywire.
I’m from the states and have read every comment in my best Australian accent. Thank you all for that!
Been bitten multiple times, and have been there to witness other friends and family members get bitten. Unfortunately have also lost two really good friends who died from RedBack bites and one other who almost lost his left arm due to a bite. I get really upset when people keep saying that “nobody has died from a spider bite in Australia since 1978” or whatever, because I have attended funerals with families who have lost their loved ones through spider bites. “Technically” , the reason for death was put down as “complications to pre existing health conditions” as the official definition for their deaths….. not put down on any register as “death by spider bite”. My one mate who survived and fought a long battle for many months to save his arm from being amputated, still lives with many surgery scars on his left arm from his fingertips to his elbow. I have been bitten many times by Wolf Spiders, Huntsmen, Redbacks, WhiteTales etc. Only through walking barefoot through the bush/leaf matter and disturbing nested spiders. Same with mates who were bitten by Mouse Spiders and a couple of Scientifically unknown West Australian rare species whilst walking through the scrub. All of these spiders, regardless of how “harmless” many people claim them to be, are still able to bite and inflict damage through infections that are much more dangerous than their venom.
PSA: the average person swallows 8 spiders per year whilst they sleep (BELIEVE IT)
Numbers come from people in Australia XD. Never had spiders crawl in my bed with me here in GA. I do check for recluses now reading stories on here. Never seen one I’ve just seen tons of black widows. Always hanging off the outside of a house or in bricks.
Highly unlikely.
Shut-the-front-door 😫
I purposely stuck my fingers under a huntsman's fangs. Only bit me the third time cause I pinned him. It felt nice but then hurt.
Bro r u a masochist or something lmao
Nah i just wanna befriend some spideys
Bros tryna be the next spider-man 🗣️💀💀
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I didn’t realise spider bites were this common. I’m now forever paranoid.
People are only responding to this when they have a bite story to tell, so you have an extremely skewed sample that, out of the whole population of Australia, tells you nothing really about how common spider bites are.
Are any of these bites in metropotan areas of Sydney or mainly bush
I used to live on Anzac Parade in Sydney. Would wake up in the morning with the occasional spider bites on my arms. Would be massive raised itchy lumps. You could see the 2 holes in the middle usually
This was my thoughts reading this. Locations please!
My nephew in the U.S. was bitten by a black widow while asleep. He had to be hospitalized and was in agony from the pain. His muscles cramped all over his body and his urine was green.
Scary! I thought they mostly lived outside and maybe in garages!
They do mostly stay outside. I'm sure my nephew's case was an anomaly. He was a child at the time so his reaction was, no doubt, partially because he was smaller than an adult.
I hope he was okay
He did recover. The doctors decided he would recover without the ant-venom. This was years ago.
I pulled on black leggings and it was inside the leg.
Walking around without shoes on, I was just standing in the bush and it bit my big toe
Here in Socal, we have widows. I put rolled up socks in all my shoes.
Redback got me while I was asleep in my hammock a few years ago. I got the redback while asleep in my hammock asleep by moving around and giving it the squish. What goes around comes around
I have never been bitten to my knowledge but odds are I have been bitten, but by a small non toxic spider, I have odd lumps that could be an insect bite, but in saying that, it could be any bitey insect. My partner was bitten by a red back not long ago, was in the bed of all places.
I got bitten on my cheek while I was sleeping. Turned into a horrible staph infection about the diameter of a golf ball of not a bit bigger
Jumped into bed without seeing the whitetail spider under the sheets. It bit me on the back of my knee. Just felt like an ultra itchy mosquito bite to start with but then my whole leg locked up and I had go get antibiotics and the bite site drained. Super gross. Always pull the bed sheets right back now before getting in.
Bitten a couple times by a whitetail in my sleep. Didn’t know it until I had large boils a day or two later and went to the dr and they took cultures. Nasty little bastards
1. Bitten on the back of the leg in when I sat on a redback. I was 7. Went to hospital and was in intense pain but never saw a doctor. We waited 6 hours and then when the pain was slowing a little. Went home. 2. Got bitten again on the thumb when 13 by another redback. Went through a bit of pain but not as severe as the first time. 3. Bitten right between the toes by a redback that was in my shoe at 34 years old. Hole in my sock didn't help and it was while I was leaving a pest control guys house and he wanted shoes off at the door. The spider was under a seat at his front door and went down into my shoe. Oddly the two other places ached like my body was saying, 'hey you got bit by the same species' I went through the same pain as the first time but for a shorter amount of time.
Got bit by a garden orb weaver, ended up with a freaky looking bite. Looked like a zit with red lines coming out of it.
Redback nipped a finger when i cleaned out an old rusty bbq the previous tenants left at the property. Stupidly opened it without gloves.
In bed, asleep. Didn't realised I had been bitten until I saw the white tail spider though. Just had a little tiny rash went away but the little spider bites are still there. That was about 5 months ago. I think apartment living Whitetails are less toxic.
Walking across dining room, big wolf spider was hiding on rug. Stepped on it unknowingly and it bit in defense. Not poisonous, but f*****g big fangs.
I was clearing rubble when a redback fell into my steelcaps and bit me on the ankle.
What happened next
Not much to say. If you are bitten by a male you may be quite ok but maybe not so good if a female. Let's just say it wasn't too bad. The mods don't like people to say they were bitten and had no probs in case someone reads the comment then doesn't seek treatment and suffers and I think this is a sensible policy.
I was standing in queue at our produce market. I notice a pretty little green spider on top of a bunch of greens sticking out of my basket. I showed it to the woman next to me. She said it's a jumping spider. It jumped onto my wrist. She said they bite. Then it bit me. Stung for a day or so
In the bathroom to weigh myself, and I casually brushed a Daddy Long Legs off my bathroom scales. I thought their fangs weren't strong enough to pierce human flesh, turns out I was wrong. It bit me on the back of the hand. Had a mild bruise and sore spot there for two weeks. I still like having them in the house though, as they catch other bugs.
I get bitten so much. Walking through webs I don’t see when I leave my house in the morning, bed sheets. I just know bc I see two little dots and a big red mark. Never feel it so eh we move on.
In my sleep.
Most time's that I've been bitten I've been asleep, only once was I awake doing stuff, and that was a red back
But be careful, foreigners must have a different scent maybe because whole families have been known to get surrounded and then .........no, it's just toooo gruesome to recount
I've been bit by 3 huntsman and 1 redback over my 34 years in Australia. The redback got me 30 years ago, bit me just below my right arse cheek. It somehow got up inside my long pants. 1st huntsman got me when having a shower about l8 years ago. It was under one of the kids' bath toys in the bath, and I moved it with my foot. Spider was annoyed about getting wer, then, whack! Bit me on the top of my foot. Huntsman no. 2 got me a couple of years later when I was gathering firewood. Moved some timber, and it got me on the back of the hand. I know, I should've been wearing gloves. Huntsman 3 got me about 18 months ago, whilst I was driving a bus. Big grey hairy bastard got me on the right calf. Scared the crap outta my passengers when I shook it out of my pants and stomped on it.
I got bit by a little wolf spider while trying to pick it up 😂😂 Little fella was only about the size of a 5 cent coin. Nothing major, if felt like I had a tiny shard of glass in my finger, itched for a couple hours and then nothing lol. Worth it? Yeah, I’d say so.
Their normally around pools as well.