In Italy we have Loxosceles rufescens, a tiny little cute critter notorious for being the most venomous spider of the mediterranean basin. Years ago a L.rufescens bit a guy on his forearm and his entire arm (up to the shoulder) began to swell and hurt as hell. The area whitin a 5 cm radius around the bite necrotized and became black and hard. The doctors pulled lots of pus out of this thing and when it fell apart there was a hole in his arm almost the size of an orange. He didn't have a kidney failure just because the bite was on his right arm.
I'm not afraid of spiders, but (because of this piece of sh&t) i never EVER touch them. And it's unusual, given that i usuale like to touch and take with bare hands every kind of animal. Wasps and hornets included.
Funny fact about Italy and spiders: the name of the typical italian tarantella folk dance comes from the Italian word for tarantula, because this dance developed from the severe seizures occurring after a Wolf spider bite (Lycosa tarantula, Lycosidae).
I'm not afraid of spiders, but (because of this piece of sh&t) i never EVER touch them. And it's unusual, given that i usuale like to touch and take with bare hands every kind of animal. Wasps and hornets included.
Funny fact about Italy and spiders: the name of the typical italian tarantella folk dance comes from the Italian word for tarantula, because this dance developed from the severe seizures occurring after a Wolf spider bite (Lycosa tarantula, Lycosidae).
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice."
Charles Robert Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray (22 may 1860)
Charles Robert Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray (22 may 1860)
