Brazilian Wandering Spider

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: Brazilian Wandering Spider

As long as I'm awake to thwart their bite or in my pad I have no prob with our cane spiders.

[cyleet99]

Re: Brazilian Wandering Spider

We already got 'em!

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: Brazilian Wandering Spider

OOOhhh. I get it. Just another ED thread in the making! And I thought better of you, Ron.

Well, maybe you can at least go out with a smile on your face.

But it also releases serotonin into the brain that is extremely painful.

Bottom line, I don't want any big ass spiders here.

[cyleet99]

Re: Brazilian Wandering Spider

Seems there are issues with the proper identification of this spider. I found this misidentification per this post from 2007.

Here's another incident of misidentification from a Whole Foods in Oklahoma.

Reading on into the 2009 article. it looks like it is not difficult to spot a male victim of a bite from the real spider, though.

Hm.



OOOhhh. I get it. Just another ED thread in the making! And I thought better of you, Ron.

[HawaiiMama]

Re: Brazilian Wandering Spider

You know what?

I would die within minutes, just from SEEING that!!!!!!!!!

[Ron Whitfield]

You die in under an hour if biten, and these things have invaded the N/W areas of the US causing havoc having come in bananas and such.
Hope we don't have them, yet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_wandering_spider