For anyone looking at the red-top media
and seeing worrying pictures of swollen legs and pustulant looking sores, with
lurid claims about savage, leaping false widow spiders suddenly
descending upon this country like illegal immigrants looking to feed
of the benefit system of your tender flesh, I advise you to read this;
The truth about False Widows
…and stop panicking.
I know most people, myself included,
are not massively keen on spiders; my bath this autumn has proved a
fairly inviting home for some of the largest domestic house spiders
I’ve ever seen, and only dirt on my body an inch thick has finally
persuaded me to wield an old Tupperware sandwich box and a copy of Bizarre magazine to exit them through the bathroom
window.
I am always very proud of myself
whenever I do this.
But you see there’s no need to go genociding
(arachno-ciding?) everything with 8 legs in your immediate vicinity;
the chances of you or your family coming to any harm at the hands of
a false widow spider are so miniscule as to be virtually zero.
Chances are you are infinitely more likely to break your leg falling off the
wobbly kitchen chair you stood on in order to batter a sleepy
spider in the corner of the ceiling with your Daily Mail.
Stop reading tabloid scare stories, and have a nice cup of tea instead.
Copyright cream
crackered nature 28/10/2013
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