Which OW Tarantulas Have Medically Significant Bites?

[viper69]

Absolutely, I completely agree. I remember living in Miami, there was actually a place unofficially called Little Cuba. Think Chinatown, but with Cubans. According to my grandparents, it was the closest thing to Cuba they ever saw in the US. Open market shops, community schools and daycares, churches, even a hospital. Here in Vegas, there are entire regions in the city where you can walk around and not read or hear a single word of English. Even the billboards are in Spanish.

Okay, enough tangent. Sorry OP for hijacking the thread

Yep been to Miami many times, seen it. Also re the latter, the same is true for parts of L.A. in Little Tokyo. You wouldn't know you were in the USA at all, only street signs in English, all business in Japanese

 

[Chris LXXIX]

I forced my Uncle in 1990, summer, to eat with me at San Francisco (San Fierro according to GTA games) Chinatown. He was an hardcore Republican of the old school (hunting, no politically correct, quite rich business... "Black Americans? They don't speak even English!" was one of his lol statements ah ah etc you know lol) and he was extremely pissed off (muahahahahahahahah) for that.
I did that, as a kid, on purpose

Such a beauty place that Chinatown, unlike the N.Y one (talking about back then) even Ray Charles or Wonder would see "Tong" written all over the place.
While, on the other hand, all of that Little Italy N.Y stuff were annoying like hell. Those Italian/Americans eat strange stuff that here no sane person would eat, lol. And they, unlike the Chinese, aren't even good at Italian, their ancestral laguage, save for R.I.P old ones fellas or for 'Ciao' and other captain obvious things. Bah.

 

[Pociemon]

Most definately poecilotheria sp are bad to get a hit from. Others come to mind aswell wich i know of, haplopelma are no fun, i know that as a fact as i know several people who have been tagged, i often come to find them in nature in Thailand(my wife is thai), the locals have a huge respect for them, almost as with centipedes. They wack a punch and people reports to have been sick for many days up til weeks.
I do know of a guy who have been tagged by both an arboreal pit viper and a poecilotheria ornata and the poecie bite was worse.... But there is so many variables to consider to make any serious conclusion about it, it can be allergic reaction, amount of venom injected and where it was injected.....

 

[vespers]

I agree the people over hype everything, most wont ever encounter a venomous snake but lets be real, Australia does have the most venomous animals on earth... that's not hype that's reality.

...and South America has the most poisonous animal on earth. One milligram of batrachotoxin from a single specimen of Phyllobates terribilis could easily kill everyone posting in this thread simultaneously and them some.

 

[Trenor]

...and South America has the most poisonous animal on earth. One milligram of batrachotoxin from a single specimen of Phyllobates terribilis could easily kill everyone posting in this thread simultaneously and them some.

Only if it has been eating the right foods. If it hasn't it can't produce the poison. Captive bred frogs have no poison at all and will be unable to make any without the right diet. Those are cool, I thought about getting some one time but never did.

 

[vespers]

Only if it has been eating the right foods. If it hasn't it can't produce the poison. Captive bred frogs have no poison at all and will be unable to make any without the right diet. Those are cool, I thought about getting some one time but never did.

I know, I currently have a trio of yellows. That's why I said South America...wild specimens in their native Colombia.

 

[MikeofBorg]

I've been bitten and stung by about everything in N America. The worst pain was a Tarantula Hawk Wasp in Arizona. I reached under a rock to flip it was resting under. I couldn't move my fingers for about 3 hours. I had to walk 3 miles back to the truck in intense agony. Now dangerous wise was a Brown Recluse bite I received at Fort Polk LA at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC). I ended up with a lesion between my index and middle finer about the size of quarter. All necrotic and nasty. I had a fever of 104, body aches and vomiting. The Army doctors gave me a medication originally for Leprosy which helped stop the necrosis. It was the 2nd worst time I ever had. The first was catching Korean Hemorrhagic Fever in 1995 during my very first duty station while in the field. I was a UH-1H Huey crew chief. Most likely me and the 3 other who caught it inhaled mouse feces or dried urine from the helicopter rotor wash in a field. That almost killed me. The whites of my eyes were Red for about 2 weeks from the capillaries rupturing.

 

[cold blood]

The worst pain was a Tarantula Hawk Wasp in Arizona.

That's supposed to be one of the worst bites/stings inverts have to offer. Really nasty and painful.

Btw, with that name your signature quote should be "resistance is futile"

 

[MikeofBorg]

That's supposed to be one of the worst bites/stings inverts have to offer. Really nasty and painful.

Btw, with that name your signature quote should be "resistance is futile"

LOL, I should put that as my quote. I am a Trek fan.

 

[Andrea82]

I've been bitten and stung by about everything in N America. The worst pain was a Tarantula Hawk Wasp in Arizona. I reached under a rock to flip it was resting under. I couldn't move my fingers for about 3 hours. I had to walk 3 miles back to the truck in intense agony. Now dangerous wise was a Brown Recluse bite I received at Fort Polk LA at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC). I ended up with a lesion between my index and middle finer about the size of quarter. All necrotic and nasty. I had a fever of 104, body aches and vomiting. The Army doctors gave me a medication originally for Leprosy which helped stop the necrosis. It was the 2nd worst time I ever had. The first was catching Korean Hemorrhagic Fever in 1995 during my very first duty station while in the field. I was a UH-1H Huey crew chief. Most likely me and the 3 other who caught it inhaled mouse feces or dried urine from the helicopter rotor wash in a field. That almost killed me. The whites of my eyes were Red for about 2 weeks from the capillaries rupturing.

Wow. Mods, can we get a 'shocked' rating? I think I need one for this post.
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