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Welcome to my Spider Pages. Here you'll find a huge amount of
information and pictures about spiders - from the deadliest
funnel web spider to the harmless garden orb weaver. You can
send in your spider
photos as well and I'll see if I can identify them for you and post
them on the Spider Photos pages if
I can't!! Please
support this site by visiting our advertisers' web sites while you
are here!
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
I have completed a Quick Reference Guide
to Spiders and their bites and symptoms. There are several in depth
articles on the
Spider Bite Treatment page but that only covers a few
spiders.
The Quick Reference Guide has a pop up box with info about
the spider's bite, symptoms and treatment and also shows how few
spiders are really dangerous to humans. Check it out
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INTERESTING:
Check out YouTube's video of the effects of drugs on
spiders.
Click here.
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ADVERTISE ON SPIDERZRULE:
Companies can advertise on my
site for as little as $80US per year. Click here for the
form and advertising rates. Click here
for some testimonials.
NEW!!! - SPIDER TATS
I've been sent some photos of spider tattoos by a very
big fan of spiders. If you have any spider tats (in places we can look
at), send them in!!
Click here for some photos.
IMPORTANT - SPIDER
PHOTOS:
Photos not taken by me are copyright to their owners. Persons wishing to use photos please email me and
I will attempt to connect you with the contributor. |
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HOW TO GET RID OF SPIDERS:
I get many emails asking me how to get rid of spiders in the home
as understandably, a lot of people have a great fear of spiders.
Spiders
are an important part of the food chain, getting rid of unwanted insects
and being food themselves for birds and other animals, so I don't really
advocate removing them.
However, I decided to do some research and find
some ways that people have found to keep spiders out of their house and
included them on a new page here.
If you have any proven methods, please
email me with them. |
VERY IMPORTANT!!!
"I have felt tired with some back and headaches together with
giddiness but put this down to jet lag and back to workitis. I would
appreciate your advice as a friend has suggested that they could be
spider bites......"
I quite often receive emails like this one
and cannot stress strongly enough how important it it to
seek medical advice for any suspected bite or sting that
causes a reaction. I am not a doctor, just a teacher
in Australia, so have absolutely no qualifications to give
advice on medical situations!! Please see your doctor!!
I must also
stress the fact that any bite can be dangerous, as even the most
harmless of spiders can have an adverse affect on certain people.
Any spider bite you are concerned about, should be reported to your doctor. |
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VENOMOUS OR POISONOUS?
Just to straighten out a common misconception!!
Spiders are venomous NOT poisonous. Poisonous means
if you ate it, you would get sick, venomous means that it injects its
venom into you. |
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AUSSIE SPIDERS
These photos are doing the rounds in an email
and I thought they'd be a great addition!!
Click here for the photos. All copyright is
acknowledged!!
FLYING SPIDERS:
Flying spiders? All across central Texas there have been
millions of spider webs flying thru the sky.
Scott Lawrence from Snerdey Webs has a video of them to share.
Click
here. |
SPIDER LEGENDS:
"If you wish to live and thrive, Let a
spider run alive" - so says an
old English saying.
This started a search for more
spider legends and superstitions so I have now added 2 new
pages -
Spider
Legends
and
Spider Superstitions.
If you have any to contribute, please
email
me and I'll add them to the pages. |
SPIDER PHOTOS:
I have been sent a great many photos of spiders and have a large
photo gallery now.
Click here to have a look.
There are also some great closeups here.I also have
added 2 pages of common spiders from Australia and the United States
which seems to be the places most queries come from. Here's the links:
Common Spiders Australia
Common Spiders USA
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SPIDER
BITE SYMPTOMS:
People often ask about spider
bite symptoms and treatment so I have added a page with symptoms of some
of the most dangerous spiders in the United States and some not so
dangerous ones, as well as the treatment for them.
Please remember to
see your doctor for any bite that is worrying you.
Click here for Spider Bites, Symptoms and Treatment. |
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SPIDER BITE HOME
GROWN REMEDIES: |
I have started a new page of home grown
remedies for spider bites. Often these old time treatments have been
passed down through the generations from before it was common to go to a
doctor and often they worked well!! But we must also remember that
sometimes they didn't!! So while I am publishing them here, I take no
responsibility for anyone who tries them and they don't work!!
I am still and will always advocate going to your
doctor for any bite that is not healing!! Click
here for the page,
click here
to send in any remedies. |
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| AMAZING PHOTOS: |
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I had several emails with these photos, asking what the spider
is. It is one of the nephila species of golden silk orb weaving
spiders. Click here for more
photos. |
 SPIDER
CHART:
Click
the chart for a page from
www.termite.com
with spider charts for both Australia and USA which have
spider identification of venomous and dangerous spiders.
Click
here for a small version of the chart you can get free
on their pages.
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INTERESTING NEWS:
COURIER MAIL - An Alice
Springs man who was bitten on the bottom more than 20 times by a
Redback spider needed 16 doses of antivenene to survive. For the
rest of the story, go to our
Redback spider page.
NEWS24.com
- Spider snacks on snake.
Click here for the full story
from Africa.
MORE INTERESTING NEWS:
Scientists have crossed a
spider with a goat!
Click here |
DADDY LONGLEGS:
I had quite a few queries about Daddy Long Legs' Venom and the
different types of Daddy Long Legs.
Click here for the answer kindly
provided by the Australian Museum. |
REFERENCES:
Some pictures and information on these pages have been
adapted, with permission from Steve Parish's wonderful
publication: "Amazing Facts About Australian Insects and
Spiders". Available at all good bookstores. |
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SPIDER
HOAXES:
Click any of the hoaxes below for the truth about them.
Brown Recluse in Australia
Blush Spiders
Two
Striped Telamonia
Exploding Cactus Spider Hoax
Camel Spiders
Brown Recluse Bite Photos
If you find any others please
send them in. |
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SPIDERS IN AMBER:
I have been sent some nice photos of spiders in amber.
They are available to buy too!!
Click here.
NICE EMAIL:
Finally something to think about from one of our visitors. If only
we all had this attitude and took the time........Click
here.
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