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Hi Glen, First let me congratulate you with your
web site. I think it is well put together with a
large amount of information. A couple of
interesting things which I have picked up is with
regards to the bites and treatment of the bites.
First the sac spider. Here in South Africa we have a
sac spider(long legged sac spider) which accounts
for 70-90% for all spider bites. The symptoms is
similar to that of the violin spider and if you do
not get the right treatment you end up with a nasty
wound and scar. This is an aggressive spider and
will attack at any opportunity.
There is also photos of properly treated sac and
violin spider bites.
With regards to the Letrodectus species. We have
a couple of species here. Most common is the
industinctus (Black Button) and the Geometricus
(brown button). Of the two the Black button is about
4 times more venomous than the brown.
In your note you mention the brown house spider
as medically important. If my memory serves me right
this is one of the American species. So in America
brown is danger and here by us Black is dangerous
one and brown the lesser dangerous one.
Thought I will share this with you.
Thanks again for the effort to share the
information with us.
Also take a look at the above site for the six
eye sand spider aka six eye crap spider. Probably
our most dangerous spider. The venom is cytotoxic,
but tends to spread and attack muscle and organs
across the body.
Regards
Lourens
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Poteet, Tx
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29/08/05:
I've just spent way too much time perusing your site. It is
absolutely amazing! I am a horticulturist at an estate
garden in west central Georgia, and I encounter a variety of
spiders on a daily basis. Fortunately over the years I've become
very acclimated to their presence, and feel more fascination
than fear when I encounter even large ones. Our greenhouses host
several black and yellow argiopes every summer, and our staff
has truly come to appreciate the importance of eight-legged
predators in the hothouse food chain. Your site has been
extremely helpful for identifying many of the spiders I
encounter at work and at home. I don't kill spiders in my house.
Instead, i catch them in some kind of container and release them
outside. This is not only out of respect for the other creatures
who are valuablre parts of the ecosystem, but also because my
very superstitious Irish-immigrant grandfather drilled the
following into me throughout my childhood: "If you expect to
live and thrive, then let the spider walk alive."
Thank you for the fantastic site; I have a feeling I will be a
frequent visitor!
Charlotte M. Caldwell
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10/08/05:
HI! I am deathly afraid of spiders, but after looking at your
site, I feel a little more comfortable looking at them. I really
enjoy the identify part of the site. The pictures are awesome,
and it gives me a chance to see what we have in Ontario! Nice
work!!!
Ashley |
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23/07/05:
Web page creator:
A friend of mine was recently bitten by a brown recluse. And I
have since then been looking for a photo of what the spider
looks like, so that I would know to keep not only myself by my
daughter away from it if I saw one. I did a Google search and
came across your site.
I found on your site MORE information than ANY other site, on
not only the spider, but what the bite wound can look like as
well. You actually had a few wound photos that were similar to
what his leg wound looked like (NOT that big gaping surgery one
though). I just wanted to tell you that I was/ am amazed and
delighted at the time, effort, and DETAIL you took in putting
together this website. Most of the pictures of the spiders were
enough to make me cringe so that I most likely will NOT sleep
tonight. (they were worse than the bite pictures!!! lol!!)
I feel so much more educated on the spiders that I will find in
my area, and how to tell the difference between the common
southern house spider and the brown recluse (as I have both in
my home). You should feel VERY PROUD of the work you did on this
site. Thanks for providing me with the information you did!
Sincerely Yours, Susan |
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23/10/04:
Great site,
I wish I had you as a teacher! LOL
I was bitten recently and it was an experience,
I got cellulitis which is just now healing.
I am 25 and this was definitely a lesson for me.
Your site has taught me more in a few minutes than I would
expect to learn in a year,
Thank you,
Crista |
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22/09/04:
Hi, My name is Jon Wellner and I am a researcher
for the television program CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The CBS
drama follows the adventures of a team of criminalists in Las Vegas,
Nevada. It airs Thursday evenings at 9:00pm.
I am contacting you in regards to some questions that our writers have
about spiders. Specifically, when a spider bites you when you're
sleeping, are they drinking your blood like a mosquito? Why do you
get a red bump? Why does the spider attack you? How does it find
you? I understand why a spider kills a fly, but why do they attack
humans. Finally, are there any venous spiders that actively seek out
their prey?
While CSI is fictitious, we pride ourselves
on being as accurate as possible with scientific matters. We rely on
professionals such as yourself to maintain this accuracy.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Sincerely
Jon Wellner
Head Researcher
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Phone. 323-851-1888
Fax. 310-861-5514
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9/6/04:
Dear Glen
 Thank you for helping us prepare for the opening of Masters of
the Web, the new
spider exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo. It's not easy to photograph
wildlife so small,
quick, rare, or reclusive. Such skill requires patience,
knowledge, keen observation,
and time: all of which you provided free of charge. Please know
that the strength of
your work has increased the visibility of spiders, their
diversity, beauty and
ecological roles. We feel this is a major step in changing fear
into curiosity - and
ultimately, conservation. Woodland Park Zoo is a conservation
and education institution demonstrating the value, beauty and
interdependence of all living things.
Sincerely,
Anastasia Gianas |
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16/4/04:
Dear Students,
I was looking up information on a picture I was sent via email.
I found your site with the exact picture and some information
that proved to be more correct than that which came with the
email. It was the photo of the wind scorpion held by the US
soldiers.
I enjoyed your site immensely and plan to come back at have a
good look at a later date. I will also pass it on to my young
friends as a great reference site for spiders. I also enjoyed
looking at the photos sent in from other countries and the
stories with them.
Excellent work and planning of your web site.
You have all done an excellent job.
Cheryl Templeman
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16/4/04:
Dear Glen,
I am collecting images of spiders for Masters of the Web, the
new spider exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo in the States. Would
you be interested in submitting any images?
Thank you,
Anastasia Gianas, Woodland Park Zoo
Seattle Washington, USA |
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 21/2/03:
Congratulations!
Your
Spider site has been reviewed
and chosen to bear the 2003-2004 Golden Web Award. |
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5/2/03:
Hi,
Hi, I just ran across the spider
site you maintain and I had to write and tell you how much I loved it!!!
Being an avid "Spider Lover" I can appreciate all the work and fascinating
information it provides!!! GREAT JOB!!! I'll be back for more soon!!!
Warmest regards from the States,
((o)) Lee Ann Combs
((O))
http://www.MissBlackWidow.com |
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1/1/03:
Dear Ms. Crew,
Spiders (http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider.htm) has been selected
to appear in a CD-ROM publication called the World Online Digest (WOLD). The
WOLD is published by Software 2010, a company based in Carlsbad, California.
Every four weeks, the CD-ROM is distributed to approximately 12,000
subscribers in the United Kingdom and Australia. Many of our subscribers do
not have access to the Internet; with the CD-ROM, they can browse the
family-friendly Web sites featured on the WOLD. If you grant us permission
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7/06/02:
Hi there,
I have just spent a very happy and interesting hour
reading about your spider keeping, I am from the UK and just chanced upon
the site whilst looking for a picture of a 'Black Widow' I have learnt so
much I didn't know before, coming from England we get the misguided view
that the 'Black Widow' or the 'Red-Back' are very aggressive large spiders
and kill you at will and in an instant!!! so it was wonderful to read about
children catching them at the bus stop and taking them to school it
definitely dispelled a few myths for me, I don't often email sites but I had
to congratulate you and the children on the wonderful work! I hope to travel
to Sydney next year and I now know that the 'Funnel Web' is the chap to look
out for!!! incidentally we do have some large spiders in the UK but of
course they are harmless and not nearly as interesting as yours, thanks
again :o)
Pamela |
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28/03/02:
Very good website, the kids did an excellent job! It was also very useful to
me for some school work I was doing regarding the Daddy Long Legs urban
myth. Thanks! Also, I don't know if you guys realize, but your website is in
a published book nation wide here by White Wolf Studios, called Ananansi.
-Nick Weglarek |
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June, 2001:
We have had another of our spider pages selected by SciLinks: "Our teachers selected the following
web page(s), and identified the following web masters and/or authors as responsible for this page or page:"Thank |
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 9 May, 1999 - Our Spider Pages were selected as a Links2Go "Key Resource"
"Congratualtions - The page titled
"Spider Homepage", at http://www.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider.htm,
was selected as a Links2Go "Key Resource" in the Spiders topic, at
http://www.links2go.com/topic/Spiders."
Links2Go
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24 January, 1999 - Our pages were featured on
CNN
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31 December, 1998 -
"Spiders" - I am pleased to tell you that your website has been
chosen for inclusion in the BBC Education Web Guide. The Education Web Guide team were particularly impressed by the quality and educational content of your
site and have placed a short review of it in our searchable database which can be accessed by internet users everywhere.
This site is listed in the BBC Education Web Guide.
The best learning resources on the Net are only a
click away!
Tanya Piejus
Online Editorial Assistant,
BBC Education Web Guide,
British Broadcasting Corporation
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We are very pleased and proud, that these pages were featured on the Microsoft Internet Explorer
Home User site during the week of 3 June, 1998.
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 Our page has been selected as
part of the "WHOW", Web Helpers on Wheels Automated Directory. Click on the Bus to join the Tour for more Spider pages and other Topics. |
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 "Congratulations!!
Your site is site of the week under category: Insects (24/9/97)
Thanks for contributing to a better sense of community on the web. We value those of you taking the web to the next level. Your site has been selected as a
featured site this week on the WebTrips Network(tm) located at
http://www.webtrips.com.
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WebTrips Network(tm) Production Staff" |
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 18 May, 1998 -
The Learning Kingdom
has selected
our site as a Cool Site of the Day -
(Water Spiders).
Thanks Learning Kingdom, check out their great site!
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