White Tailed Spiders Sydney Australia

White Tailed Spiders Classification.

White Tailed Spiders Identification.

White Tailed Spiders exhibit dark red and grey colourings, with a long body and eight dark orange-brown legs. Males grow up to about 12mm, while females are larger at 18mm. Their grey dorsal abdomen features two pairs of faint white spots, less distinct in adults, with a white spot at the tip. Males have a hard scute (narrow plate) on the front of the abdomen.

White Tailed Spiders Habitat.

White tail spiders are widely spread. They are found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Southern Western Australia. They prefer dark, humid and sheltered spots around your house and garden, featuring cover from the elements and wind.

White Tailed Spiders Toxicity.

The White-Tailed Spiders bite is often associated with severe, untreatable ulceration and skin lesions known medically as necrotizing arachnidism (skin breakdown or ulceration following spider bites). However, this has been debunked as a myth in several case studies. Minor bacterial infection of the wound is most likely the cause of such cases of ulceration, rather than the spider’s specific bite. However, their bites usually cause initial burning pain, followed by swelling and itchiness of the bitten area. Occasionally, welts or blistering occurs.

In our experience, we have found that washing a bite with Dettol disinfectant and applying calamine lotion will quickly heal a bite. While they have a fearsome reputation, these spiders are not as harmful as they appear.

D.I.Y Pest Control For White Tailed Spiders.

There are three successful methods of controlling White Tailed Spiders infesting your house.

1) Physically catching and removing any that you come across and by removing the webs of other smaller spiders, upon which they feed. Their favourite food source is the black house spider.

2) A general pest control treatment on your home. Like all spiders, insects if you take away their food source, it makes other spiders and insect less likely to want to live there and breed. White-tailed spiders favourite food source are black house spiders. If you have a lot of black house spiders, you generally will have white tailed spiders.

3) Introducing fly screens and locking them out, and introducing a dehumidifier into their environment. Like all insects and spiders, they like to live in a humid environment. Dry out their environment, and they find it less desirable to want to live there.

White Tailed Spider Price List.

Micropest - Pest control Sydney provides the following White-tailed spider pest control service with an approximate price. Please don't hesitate to ring because we do have specials from time to time and we are flexible. If you want to have cockroaches, spiders, silverfish, and carpet beetle included, you might want to consider a Sydney pest control treatment.

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White Tailed Spider Pest Control company Micropest Pest Control Sydney will endeavour to assist you in the best and most helpful way and will always treat the customer with respect honestly and ethically.

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