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Wednesday morning is going to be a rough one.
 
I’m under a winter storm warning right now. Supposed to probably get a little bit of snow tomorrow. Just enough to kinda cover the ground maybe. Nothing to crazy. Thankfully.
 
A high of 25 C (77 F). It was really hot last weekend. There's a cyclone over Queensland at the moment, which may very well be bringing temperatures down across this side of the country.
 
Spiders mostly stay out of the way. A news article claimed there was an uptick of funnel web in Sydney (not sure if fearmongering or true) this season, which is the deadliest spider we have.

Snakes are worse, and we have most of the top-venomous ones here.
 
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Giga Hertz said:
Spiders mostly stay out of the way. A news article claimed there was an uptick of funnel web in Sydney (not sure if fearmongering or true) this season, which is the deadliest spider we have.

Snakes are worse, and we have most of the top-venomous ones here.
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(for the spiders, not the snakes lol)
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I take it back, it is for the snakes too.
 
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I've seen a few red-belly black snakes (reasonably venomous) but they stay out of the way. At my old place, my dog was going nuts at something through a gapped fence one day. I went out and saw a massive, very agitated brown snake (ie the most venomous in the world) on the other side.

Fortunately I managed to convince him to come back to me and stop barking at it, and then kept him inside for the rest of the day.
 
Giga Hertz said:
I've seen a few red-belly black snakes (reasonably venomous) but they stay out of the way. At my old place, my dog was going nuts at something through a gapped fence one day. I went out and saw a massive, very agitated brown snake (ie the most venomous in the world) on the other side.

Fortunately I managed to convince him to come back to me and stop barking at it, and then kept him inside for the rest of the day.
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I would have probably panicked. My uncle got bit a few years ago getting one of his cats away from a copperhead.
 
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Snakes kill tens of thousands of people a year. They’re more dangerous than spiders.
 
If we’re talking about Arachnids and Arthropods in general, Scorpions are also far more dangerous than Spiders, killing thousands of people a year.
 
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If we’re talking about Arachnids and Arthropods in general, Scorpions are also far more dangerous than Spiders, killing thousands of people a year.
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Only about 25 species of scorpion, which seem to be relegated to north Africa, Middle East, India, and parts of South America.

None of the species we have in Australia are deadly. The US has only recorded 4 deaths over 11 years (and I would assume those are imported or extremely close to the Mexican border).
 
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