I have some local friends who collect native spiders as a hobby. Most are nothing to worry about. There are more tarantula species in the Western U.S. than here, and there are two very venomous spiders in the Western U.S., as well. The local "banana spiders" freak me out more than any of them, but they are harmless. I would rather have a multitude of spiders than a multitude of cockroaches and other bugs.
Yeah, I'd rather have the non-venomous spiders in the house for pest control, but I certainly keep my distance from them. I had a girlfriend in the US that had a tarantula as a pet, any arguments ended abruptly when she pulled it out......and I was sprinting down the street screaming like a little girl. She never lost a fight.....and that relationship didn't last very long. I now check to make sure no potential gf has any pet snakes or spiders.
We have a few here, locals call the tapi tapi,they are big enough and they can move with great speed! ( huntsman spider) . I think the tuco gecko deal with them at night as we have a family of them behing the tv
that looks way different to the AU huntsman, ours has been blamed for a flesh eating disease after a bite
There is one in U.S. that is called a Brown Recluse. I know guy that got bit in the face by one while he was shoulder deep tightening the trap under a shower. The bite put him in the hospital and his face looked like he lost a heavy-weight boxing match, and continued to look that way for over a week. He was lucky it didn't kill him.
Just got into bed last night and corner of my eye I spotted a large spider on the wall near the ceiling. Wife demanded I kill it, speed of that thing running around the bedroom with me chasing it with a stick. then it ran into the bathroom, wife managed to kill it eventually. googled it and it was a Huntsman spider, a bloody big and fast one at that.
I KNOW AN OLD LADY written by Rose Bonne and Alan Mills- ©1952 Peer International ( Canada) Ltd. SOCAN I know an old lady who swallowed a fly I don't know why she swallowed the fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed a spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don't know why she swallowed the fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed a bird How absurd to swallow a bird She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don't know why she swallowed the fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed a cat Imagine that. She swallowed a cat. She swallowed the cat to catch the bird She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don't know why she swallowed that fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed a dog What a hog to swallow a dog! She swallowed the dog to catch the cat She swallowed the cat to catch the bird She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don't know why she swallowed that fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed a goat Opened her throat and down went the goat! She swallowed the goat to catch the dog She swallowed the dog to catch the cat She swallowed the cat to catch the bird She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don't know why she swallowed that fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed a cow I don't know how she swallowed the cow She swallowed the cow to catch the goat She swallowed the goat to catch the dog She swallowed the dog to catch the cat She swallowed the cat to catch the bird She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don't know why she swallowed that fly Perhaps she'll die I know an old lady who swallowed a horse She died of course!
