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Swarms of venomous spiders invade Indian town
Topic Started: June 3, 2012, 7:29 am (1,162 Views)
Blessedx4
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this gave me the heebee-jeebee's just reading it!


2 people dead after swarms of venomous spiders invade Indian town
Published June 03, 2012
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SADIYA, India – A town in India has suddenly been overrun by swarms of venomous spiders, leaving two people dead after being bitten.

It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/03/2-people-dead-after-swarms-venomous-spiders-invade-indian-town/


Edited by Blessedx4, June 3, 2012, 7:30 am.
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:freaked Aye-yi-yi :freaked

This sounds just horrifying! "Latching on"???
We get some pretty big spiders here in the south, "wolf spiders"...they look like flat tarantulas with smaller bodies....come into the house once in a while...one had a span almost as large as my whole hand. Made me scream bloody murder when I saw it! I am terrified of them, and can't even get close enough to hit with a broom or spray with poison. I just stand there, frozen. My husband puts the longest extension on the vacuum cleaner hose, and sucks it up. Don't know what I'd do if he wasn't around to get them for me.

Interesting that they suddenly appeared right in the middle of a Hindu festival....would like to know which god they were worshipping at the time.

I read a book a few years ago written by a guy who claimed he went to Hell and came back....little spider-like demons were crawling all over him. Sure would be Hell for me! :lol
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We don't have big spiders here, thankyouGodthankyouGod. Yay on your dh and the vacuum attachment. :clap

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"All the bite patients first went to witch doctors, who cut open their wounds with razors, drained out blood and burnt it. That could have also made them sick," Phatowali said.


Say what?!? :faint
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:spider EWWW I hate spiders. :fear
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Cloud Watcher
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:spider :scared :behindsofa :bolt
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We have big spiders here, REALLY big, but they mostly stay in the jungle. I've never seen one in the house. :):
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How horrible!!!

I don't like spider and snakes....
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June 3, 2012, 9:36 am

:freaked Aye-yi-yi :freaked

This sounds just horrifying! "Latching on"???
We get some pretty big spiders here in the south, "wolf spiders"...they look like flat tarantulas with smaller bodies....come into the house once in a while...one had a span almost as large as my whole hand. Made me scream bloody murder when I saw it! I am terrified of them, and can't even get close enough to hit with a broom or spray with poison. I just stand there, frozen. My husband puts the longest extension on the vacuum cleaner hose, and sucks it up. Don't know what I'd do if he wasn't around to get them for me.

Interesting that they suddenly appeared right in the middle of a Hindu festival....would like to know which god they were worshipping at the time.

I read a book a few years ago written by a guy who claimed he went to Hell and came back....little spider-like demons were crawling all over him. Sure would be Hell for me! :lol


I live in Alabama and did a bit of research on Wolf Spiders and what I read is they're not venemous and are not usually aggressive. If they bite- it's not life threatening. Many venemous bites from other spiders have been falsely attributed to them though. And they do get big. They also eat bugs. Which is good. I wasn't sure if I'd ever seen one. The pictures didn't help much :lol

We always have lots of grandaddy longlegs. Lots of them.

We also have some really fancy web spinners around here and what's interesting about them is how they bounce the web really violently when it's touched. I thought that might be Wolf spiders (these guys are are really big too) but am not sure. Sounds like wolf spiders build trap doors to their homes in the ground (like to be in the ground) so these web bouncers may not be the same spiders. And Wolf Spiders are nomadic and carry the egg sack with them & then their babies crawl on them when hatched and go with them wherever. (a little fyi :lol )
Edited by Blessedx4, June 3, 2012, 9:06 pm.
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Duckdogger
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Real life Arachnophobia.

Our tarantulas are so big here in Phoenix, I use one to pull my wagon to and from the grocery store.
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ARG! I hate when they (News sources) do this.

Note. ALL (ok I think there is one or two exceptions) spiders are venomous.

Yes this INCLUDES wolf spiders.

Most are simply not venomous enough to acctually kill you. And some won't really effect humans at all. It is true that most bites attributed to spiders are from something else though... or even not from anything living. Meaning you can sit down in a field and stab yourself on a loose piece of straw or wood (this comes from a story I read about someone feeling like they were "bitten" when they were on a picnic or simlar) - this creates a small wound which then swells up a bit because your body is fighting either the infection or a tiny piece of whatever it was that poked you - so it gets a bump and looks like a bite.

Oh... and PF? There are tarantuals in Pueblo. :): So we do have big spiders in Colorado.


I do wonder if in this case it was something demonic going on though. I mean genearly spiders are going to bite a human only in defence. Oh they may act agressive and even chase a bit sometimes but it's still mostly defence.
Edited by LadySharon, June 5, 2012, 1:09 pm.
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I know a wolf spider would probably never bite me...."more scared than me than I am of it"... but they still terrify me.

1. Just too many....legs. I get the heebie jeebies. It's just not right to have 8 legs.
2. Their legs are loooong. Ew! And the front 2 legs stick forward and look like very long fangs
3. It can lurk in your house for days and you don't know. I usually discover them after they have climbed up a wall. One time I was under my computer desk untangling wires....my husband said "get out of there now!" A wolf spider had been there right next to my head!
4. They run about 1000 miles an hour, and they jump. This alone trumps any fears about possible venom.
5. Way too many legs.

Blessed4, in your research did you happen to find any barrier spray I can spray around my house, or something to prevent them from coming in? Seems all the sprays we've tried have no effect. We only get a few per year but it is so distressing. LadySharon, I agree there is something strangely demonic-ish about their behavior. Makes me wonder if it's exaggerated because it's just like a horror movie
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