Swarms of venomous spiders invade Indian town

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sz1j2Z7GQc

I love spiders.

 

This story is based on rumors. The man that died they think was bitten by a snake and then he was taken to some tribal faith healer. The teen that died... they can't find any bite marks and no one has said he was bitten by anything.


So far the spiders (10) that have been collected and turned in are terantulas which are common in the area. Five are being tested tobe sure.



I had a terantula when I was a kid. I played with him all the time. He was like a tank climbing over stuff. He never bit me but they can if you make them mad. They are not poisonous here in Texas.

all tarantulas are poisonous.... yes even the ones in Texas ...none are deadly to humans....barring of course the occasional allergic reaction

[Shuffler]

all tarantulas are poisonous.... yes even the ones in Texas ...none are deadly to humans....barring of course the occasional allergic reaction

Yup should correct myself. No hazard to humans.

I handled my tarantula all the time

[Butcher]

I see a Spider regardless of Size, I scream like a girl and run the other way, not quite sure where I got a fear of spiders - never had any bad dreams or anything - I simply rather them dead (unless its a daddy long leg).

I see a DLL I just leave it alone as it only eats bugs and stuff, the rest? I find the nearest hair spray can and lighter.

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Yup should correct myself. No hazard to humans.

I handled my tarantula all the time

 

owned a few over the years...my favorite is the stripped knee

I see a Spider regardless of Size, I scream like a girl and run the other way, not quite sure where I got a fear of spiders - never had any bad dreams or anything - I simply rather them dead (unless its a daddy long leg).

I see a DLL I just leave it alone as it only eats bugs and stuff, the rest? I find the nearest hair spray can and lighter.

Daddy long leg supposedly has the most toxic venom off all spiders 


fangs to small to puncture human flesh.....

Australia has the deadliest spider of them all.

whats up with that..... Australia kinda got the shaft...7 out of ten worlds deadliest snakes.... the deadliest spider...the deadliest reptile
one of the very few venomous mammals.....

[B4Buster]

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[Dragon]

I like turtles!







 

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I like turtles!







 

Alligator snapping turtles 

awesome creatures

[Karnak]

I have heard the uticating (sp?) hairs on some tarantula's can be a problem if you handle them.

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I have heard the uticating (sp?) hairs on some tarantula's can be a problem if you handle them.

 one of their defenses... they flick the hair into the eyes of would be predators....they are like tiny needles, so getting them on your skin is a very itchy situation, but nothing serious.

[Sundowner]

Oops...Looks like rumors/prank has turned back into ugly black swarms.

Photo at the link. (The photo is also a hyperlink to a larger view.)

Regards,
Sun


Spider invasion spooks Indian village

Panicked villagers in a remote Indian state complained Monday of an invasion of giant venomous spiders that resemble tarantulas but are unknown to local specialists.

Indian media said that a dozen people had been bitten and treated in hospital, with two unconfirmed deaths reported.

"Initially we thought it was a prank, but later on we saw swarms of this peculiar kind of spider biting people," Ranjit Das, a community elder in the town of Sadiya in the northeastern state of Assam, told AFP by telephone.

Authorities have swung into action by fogging and spraying insecticides in the area, 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of Assam's main city of Guwahati, and a team of scientists have been dispatched to investigate.

"We visited the spot and found it akin to the tarantula, but we are still not sure what this particular species is," said L.R. Saikia, a scientist from the department of life science of Dibrugarh University in Assam.

"It appears to be an aggressive spider with its fangs more powerful than the normal variety of house spiders," he told AFP.

http://news.yahoo.com/spider-invasion-spooks-indian-village-180444505.html

[Sundowner]

The info is slowly "crawling" out of the remote region with a couple new closeup photos in this article.

Regards,
Sun

Colonies of giant, biting spiders are attacking villagers and causing painful swelling that frightened victims are dangerously draining themselves with razor blades in remote northeast India, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Ecologist L.R. Saikia at Assam's Dibrugarh University said it may be a previously unknown species of tarantula. The spiders are roughly the size of a person's thumb.

"It looks like a new species. We haven't been able to identify it," he said Tuesday. Officials cannot use anti-venom in treating bite victims until the species is identified.

Meanwhile, villagers are keeping lamps on at night and standing guard against spiders entering their mud-and-thatch huts. There are about 100,000 villagers, mostly poor rice farmers, living in the area cut off from roads by the river.

Officials say the spiders are now also showing up south of the Brahmaputra.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/05/giant-hairy-spiders-spark-panic-in-northeast-india/?test=latestnews#ixzz1wx7KdkSd

[Plawranc]

"If the Aussies don't get you, the Wildlife sure as hell will" - USMC Captain on Joint Forces Exercise Kangaroo 3, Shoal Water Bay, Australia.

Yes Ink... we got the shaft. Funnel-web spiders are lethal within 10 minutes of bite. 15 to 20 minutes if you are lucky.

Taipan. 15 minutes until you get antivenin, then certain death. If your bitten anywhere on the torso, no amount of anti-venom will save you.

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"If the Aussies don't get you, the Wildlife sure as hell will" - USMC Captain on Joint Forces Exercise Kangaroo 3, Shoal Water Bay, Australia.

Yes Ink... we got the shaft. Funnel-web spiders are lethal within 10 minutes of bite. 15 to 20 minutes if you are lucky.

Taipan. 15 minutes until you get antivenin, then certain death. If your bitten anywhere on the torso, no amount of anti-venom will save you.

I know its crazy.....That's why the English sent all their prisoners there (guessing that's why)

mean salamanders

[Plawranc]

hahah well, As I have dual nationality (UK and Australia) and am technically both.

I will sit on the fence on that one 



Taipans.... 

[Pigslilspaz]

Because spiders.

Language warning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc