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    Bite!!

    I was reading a thread somewhere on here....someone was looking for a series of photos charting the effect of a Rattlesnake bite. I can't help with that, but the following series of pictures shows the development of a spider bite (Amourobious similis) over a 72 hour period. The effect of the haemotoxins/cytotoxins can clearly be seen. A Rattler (or other viper) bite would be similar, only on a massive scale! Yes, the finger is mine. And yes, I did die! Incidentally, Amourobious similis is considered harmless...tell that to my grieving widow!




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    Re: Bite!!

    AAAGGHH, jeez, put a warning or something.

    I'm off to the bathroom to go throw up...
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    Re: Bite!!

    OMG. 0__0;

    Ok.. The face I'm making right now is... Yuk. Anyway.. I don't want to get bitten by that!

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    Almost thirty years working in healthcare makes that does pictures do not that much to me

    Do not know the spider, but not that harmless, I think.
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    Re: Bite!!

    The spider is really common in the UK and Europe. I didn't intend to shock, only to illustrate the effect of haemotoxins.

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    What type of spider is that? I mean, that's disgusting. Does that happen every time you get bitten, or is that just if you let it suck on you for a while and don't do anything?
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    I´ve looked it up and I know the spider. It lives in Holland to.
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    That's the one! Real common, I don't think it has a common name, I only know it as Amourobious similis. It has a bigger and nastier cousin, Amourobious ferox, I don't intend to let that one bite me though!

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    Ok, I've had a miute to compose myself.
    Well, it's in the funnel web family .. Though, that's the extent of my spidy-sense, I know we have simalar spiders here. My friend has a comunity web in her barn. Looks like a three-foot tornado. Eek. Imagine what fourty or fifty could do.

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    No, it's not a funnel web..... They belong to the Theraphosidae (not true spiders) along with the so called tarantulas. Amourobious is a "true" spider (Aranea), it's just a little inconspicuous thing. Boringly enough though, I could tell you the whole life history and taxonomy if you could stay awake long enough! We have no funnel-webs or trap-door spiders in the UK.

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    Ok, I've had a miute to compose myself.
    Well, it's in the funnel web family .. Though, that's the extent of my spidy-sense, I know we have simalar spiders here. My friend has a comunity web in her barn. Looks like a three-foot tornado. Eek. Imagine what fourty or fifty could do.

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