Quote: Kenneth @ 12th February 2019, 11:15 AMIn the same way Britain doesn't have summers?
OK, we'll put the fact that NZ and OZ have the highest skin cancer rates in the world and have done since records began down to them all eating to many prawns as it cannot be the temperate climate surely (!?), so let's get onto insects and things that slither as you seem to be such an expert.
According to the Graudian there were 35 deaths caused by snake bites between 2000 and 2016, which is not many per annum grant you BUT, in the UK, there were..............................NONE. Oh, and by the way MORE THAN HALF of them occurred in or around the victim's home, but course with you being a herpetologist and toxicologist, I expect you will dispute that.
My wife watches all the animal documentaries she can on TV and the one she likes most is Bondi Vet, which is on every day (
) and quite often one of the major things the vet has to deal with is the ticks that can kill dogs, so no thank you, you can keep Australia and stuff it up yer didgeridoo.
It's not that I don't like spiders I'm just not used to them but I don't kill them when I see an unwanted visitor. I'll always find a way of catching it and putting it outside as they are not pests and I don't like killing anything. I had a False Widow move in to my kitchen last summer which was there for a few weeks and was interesting to watch as it had a very different temperament to the average house spider. Eventually it moved in to a position that allowed me to catch it and put it outside. I know the perception of spiders is irrational and the media don't help with their sensationalist stories about the horrors of False Widows but a lighthearted comment about the size of some species of spider native to Australia doesn't make someone a pathetic attention seeker.