Please, do not do this to your pet tarantula. Most spiders don’t want to bite you.
This article is about spider bites in Australia, but doesn’t constitute medical advice. Always see a medical professional if you believe you’ve been bitten or stung by a venomous animal.
I work with spiders for a living, and I’ve never been bitten by one.
There are more than 45,000 species of spiders, but only a handful are potentially dangerous to humans.
Only two spiders in Australia are of medical concern: funnel-web spiders (in the family Hexathelidae) and redback spiders (Latrodectus, in the family Theridiidae).
A review of 130 confirmed white-tail spider bites showed no cases of flesh-eating ulcers or confirmed infections, so those spiders are not considered dangerous to humans.
