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  1. I was dislodging some bricks from under the house and a bunch of red-backs ran in all directions. Me thinking, why didn’t I have gloves on.

  2. That mother is thinking if that ugly looking worm with a helmet on its head comes any closer I’ll have him.

  3. aussiechickadee65 on

    I have never seen one with such stubby legs ?
    Usually they are a really leggy spider …the legs actually being more distinct that the body colouring.

    This baby seems to have had a tick father .

  4. Low-Cockroach7733 on

    What a pretty little thing. Why are the prettiest of things in nature the most dangerous?

  5. Defiant_Hamster24 on

    Under no circumstances should anyone Google the Proserpine Tarantula that was in my washing machine just chillin

  6. Got bitten by one in my inside elbow or whatever the fuck you call it. You know – the arm equivalent of the back of your knee. Decades ago now.
    Anyway my arm got kinda stiff and I had a small bruise where the bite was with red streaks running up and down from it. Slight pain but the whole thing was sorted in about 48hrs 🤷

  7. I have PTSD from them being *everywhere* when we lived in outback NSW. This made me shudder looking at it 😱

  8. SimoneMichelle on

    I’m now hyper aware of what I’ll be coming back to when I return to Australia in less than two weeks 🫨I’ve been in France since October and I’ve yet to see a single spider