Redbacks in Nippon !!

[Jasonofabitch]

Wataka in Nippon (Japan for the imperial westerners)
- over a dozen Redbacks have been found in this city due probably from Shipping, etc.

In 1985 Osaka - over 32 Redbacks were discovered in the city.

Scientists are amazed that the Redback, a sub-tropical insect, can survive the harsh winters of Nippon.


...its about time OZ exports something 'really ozzie!'

[Neferti]

Wataka in Nippon (Japan for the imperial westerners)
- over a dozen Redbacks have been found in this city due probably from Shipping, etc.

In 1985 Osaka - over 32 Redbacks were discovered in the city.

Scientists are amazed that the Redback, a sub-tropical insect, can survive the harsh winters of Nippon.


...its about time OZ exports something 'really ozzie!'

Yes, I read that not so long ago. Although indigenous to Australia, they can now be found elsewhere. If I remember correctly, NOBODY has died from a redback bite in 50 years.

The spiders that really scare me are the Sydney Funnelweb! I get scared about them just seeing pictures on the TV. I lived in St Ives for several years and found lots of those creepy, dangerous, spiders in the garden. None in the house, thankfully.

[Aussie]

These blokes?



I'll see if I can get some sent over to you.

[Black Orchid]

Apparently the have found Redbacks in the UK recently too. They usually just hang about in corners anyway.

I have caught many funnel webs in the house over the years. I would put them in a container with a cotton ball soaked in water (so they didn't dehydrate) and then one of the Universities would come out and pick them up for milking. Aggressive lil bastids.

[Rorschach]

My ex-karate-instructor used to collect them for Reptile Park and the Unis. He collected most of his up in the Blue Mtns and Bilpin.
He has one favourite he kept at home, it was a huge spider. We caught a large Huntsman in our house and gave it to him. He decided to "feed" it to his funnelweb... the Huntsman killed it.

So Nef... keep some Huntsmen around.

[Jasonofabitch]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Redback is found further around the world due to their prolific nature to enjoy Chepp Pallets and cold dark Containers, etc. Similar to the Black Widow - but more toxic and aggressive (they chase their prey down).
There really was a dreadlocked Feral environmentalist who had Redbacks (babies) growing in his hair and is not a 'myth busted'.
While working in a factory for an Aust Food producer. I was nicknamed 'the Terminator' because I wore dark protective eyewear (move over Bonno) even on nightshift (besides never smiling or talking much). The roof of the complex is 30m high and dangling all the way down in the middle of nowhere was a Redback that I walked into right between the eyes above the nose. Its amazing how I can flip back like the Matrix with a Keanu "Whoah". Lucky I wore the eyewear, for want of being bitten right between the eyes. On other occasions I've found myself sitting and the sixth sense sees a Redback also sitting right beneath my 'custard container'. I take these Redbacks as an omen of 'another women'

Sydney Funnellwebs are the worst. Living in Western Sydney (which was a lot of scrub land back in the 70's, before it was wiped out for Phillipinos in Block Houses) - there were heaps, even on front lawns and back yards. One would only have to aggravate the Funnellweb out of its hole with a paspalin grass stem. The options were many: Put a shaking pommie kid in front of it with a cricket bat and say its "Gonna jump!" Pour kero or meths down the hole and light it with a flaming spider shooting out. Either way - they were very nasty, aggressive and nasty spiders. They even look horrid and would have looked the part of that famous ending scene in the movie "The Enemy". Amazed that they are only found around the Sydney region, why is that?

[boxy]

Scientists are amazed that the Redback, a sub-tropical insect, can survive the harsh winters of Nippon.

What scientists would they be? Red back spiders seem to survive Canberra winters just fine, and it's almost exactly as far south, as Japan is north of the equator.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Scientists are amazed that the Redback, a sub-tropical insect, can survive the harsh winters of Nippon.

What scientists would they be? Red back spiders seem to survive Canberra winters just fine, and it's almost exactly as far south, as Japan is north of the equator.

Winters in Tokyo aren't harsh but other areas of Japan have a very harsh winter so I doubt Redbacks are surviving there.

[Neferti]

Canberra Winters aren't harsh. No snow in suburbia these days like there used to be back in the 80s.

[Jasonofabitch]

Scientists are amazed that the Redback, a sub-tropical insect, can survive the harsh winters of Nippon.

What scientists would they be? Red back spiders seem to survive Canberra winters just fine, and it's almost exactly as far south, as Japan is north of the equator.

You're right Boxy. The word 'Scientist' no longer holds any 'accurate certainty' these days, when a lot lack common sense and are on the take to state whatever their payer wants.