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Sunday, January 14, 2007

A Good Spider

Australia has lots of nasty spiders and snakes (brown snakes kill 15 people a year here, just killed a teen in Sydney). Had a whiteback spider in the bathroom the other day. They aren't actually venomous (good news), but they have a bacteria in their mouth that causes severe reactions in some people who are bitten. If you're writhing in pain, it really doesn't matter if it's spider venom or some single-cell beastie that's the cause...

But scientists have found a GOOD spider. Not in Australia, though! A spider near Lake Victoria in eastern Africa that prefers to eat mosquitoes that carry malaria. Be nice to help people identify those spiders to let them live, as maybe one way to keep malarial mosquitoes away from people.

4 Comments:

At 6:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've always been fascinated by the wealth of venomous snakes, spiders, fishes and other animals you've got in and off the coast of Australia. It's really interesting to us here in the states, where I once ran across a rattlesnake, but other than that have never seen a poisonous anything.

As the climate changes, that will change too. Fire ants are moving northward, and the poisonous spiders are becoming more plentiful. In the desert areas in Washington, black widow spiders are already pretty common.

Interesting news about the new mosquito eating fella.

 
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