I'd not heard of them before, but an interesting article from the Natural History Museum has enlightened me. In 50-odd years of gardening I'm not aware I've ever been bitten by a spider. Had a few wasp stings, a couple of bee stings and numerous gnat bites - the most damage I do to myself is when removing brambles and nettles
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Most of my bites are from ants. And they do hurt! Also mossie bites cause my immune system to overreact and I get big hot itchy lumps. But I'm not aware of being bitten by spiders.
I'm also not aware that diabetes causes a bad reaction either. Interesting.
I wish I was a glow worm A glow worm's never glum Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!
A family member was bitten on the neck by a spider on a plane journey back from New Zealand via somewhere in the Far East (not sure where) ... his head and neck swelled up alarmingly and he was quite poorly for a while, requiring medical attention on the plane and hospital attention when he landed ... he recovered well but it has left a scar. They don't know what sort of spider it was, just that it was a spider ... but consequently I am aware that some spider bites can be pretty nasty.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh yes, absolutely ... but it does seem that False Widows can be nasty for some people too ... that's why I think the OP needs some proper advice from a health professional.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
pete8 many thanks really informative...in answer to some comments diabetes does not cause the reaction but leaves person open to slow healing/ulceration/further infection..diabetics have to take more care with any wounds!.
thank you all for your input I am awaiting a call from head bugman London zoo...here's hoping he will want them for his collection....alive of course, because I really do have more than I can count or want, ans some of them are as big as 50pence pieces so easily spotted.
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In 50-odd years of gardening I'm not aware I've ever been bitten by a spider.
Had a few wasp stings, a couple of bee stings and numerous gnat bites - the most damage I do to myself is when removing brambles and nettles
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I'm also not aware that diabetes causes a bad reaction either. Interesting.
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
pete8 many thanks really informative...in answer to some comments diabetes does not cause the reaction but leaves person open to slow healing/ulceration/further infection..diabetics have to take more care with any wounds!.
thank you all for your input I am awaiting a call from head bugman London zoo...here's hoping he will want them for his collection....alive of course, because I really do have more than I can count or want, ans some of them are as big as 50pence pieces so easily spotted.
thanks again