Post #641885 by komohana on Tue, Jun 26, 2012 8:04 PM

A while back there were a few comments about removing one
species and I'd thought about what might take their place...

I'll try to keep this ramble as short as...
Regardless of the style in which the interior was decorated

• in the end I was utterly compelled to make it Tiki -
  the entire structure adjoining my shed needed to be torn down
  and rebuilt, in sections when time permitted, as it was all built in
  the 50's and falling apart/damaged by termites and rot etc.
  Prior to this we had quite a few paper-wasps around the place, which
  I didn't mind, if you leave them alone they don't bother you...
  anyhow, while I was about the work mentioned I was forced to kill most
  of the wasps to protect myself.
  Australia is well known for venomous spiders and I had theorised that the
  wasps had kept many of them away as I'd never found any around the place,
  which is highly unusual for these parts. Sure we had Orb spiders, Daddy
  Long Legs, Black house spiders and Huntsman etc. which are all largely
  harmless but I'd never seen a Redback anywhere on the property before.
  Since the wasps have been gone however, I've found several in the shed and
  the wife spotted this small female in the bathroom...

These have a very painfull bite and 'though there haven't been any recorded deaths
since antivenin was introduced in 1956 my mother told me once that when she was
a little girl, which would have been in the late 1930's, one of her equally young
cousins had died as a result of a bite.