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FWIW - the big buggers can't kill ya, and only the little Sydney Funnelweb is a worry.
I can report first-hand that those piddly redback ones (I think Yanks call them black widows?) can't even sting through a slightly leathered 50+ yo man's hand. You only have to check under the outside toilet seat for them, and she'll be right 👍
@DyDave It's funny, Sharon's sister, Sam (who emigrated to Kalgoorlie but now lives north of Brisbane) bought a farm a year or two back.
We were talking about this back in August when she came over to visit us. She was saying that she's got a Huntsman living in her mail box. One of her friends mentioned it when she was dropping party invites off for the kids - her sister just said "Oh that's George. He's ok."
I guess you lot just get used to things that would make the rest of us run? 🙀
Yeah. I was actually diagnosed as an arachnophobe when I was ten and newly arrived in Oz. The psychologist said it was a reasonable fear, given that we routinely caught Funnelwebs in our house.
I'm cautious but not remotely scared now.
Also not scared of sharks, even though I've seen them up close and even had one try to knock my 12' sailboat over once. And I even like snakes, including the second most poisonous one in the world that lives in the bush I walk through every day.