Fixed that for you. Also, I haven't even gotten into the venomous creatures yet, I forgot (momentarily) all about those. I lived in Sydney as a middle schooler and had the RUN of the wildlife, including a pony I took out into the bush.
IN ARIZONA I have been bitten by 2 brown recluse spiders (they come in your house, dude) I have nearly been stung by ONE rattler because I had NO clue it sounded like electrical wires, I was like smoking and like, "where is that" and looked down at a coiled RATLER just all coiled rattling at me. I ranh inside shrieking "Snake, snake!" (I cannot deal with those suckers.) So the husband killed it. Our big dog got bit 3 times because she is slow at figuring out things, or she was. Also, there are the SCORPIONS. I first encountered a scorpion perhaps my first WEEK in AZ and it lived right under where I smoked. The first time I saw it I was like, "Meh" that CAN"T BE REAL that is like a scene from ALIENS. The second time, I ran inside screaming "scorpion, scorpion!!" and like, my son and my mother chased it down and killed it with a can of raid. The stepfather cured it with gorilla glue and sat it on a log. I had to live with that scorpion a LONG time. In the shower one time,. one of the smaller ones like, tried to sting me only thankfully it was kinda having trouble and I was able to leap OUT.
DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FYING COCKROACHES. I killed ONE with a flyswatter because my husband was out of town, and I was like OMG NO I CANNOT live with that existing and Just Me so I fly swatted it to death. It fought back. It was also disgustingly MEATY for a cockroach.
Granted I lived on an acre of land but in AZ it is so DAMNED hot, the critters want IN. Sydney was nice. Yeah, saw the occasional funnel web spider, but they just sat peacefully on the bottom of the pool with an air bubble.
The smaller the scorpion the larger the pain. I have heard it HURTS. Bad. Also 1/5 or 1/4 folks are allergic to scorpion venin, so like WATCH out if you are.
Also *I* wound up taking over the pest control in the house, because I wanted it done right. The first time I did it, I was so overenthusiastic I dosed myself, not just the bugs. I twitched for a while, but it was so WORTH it...
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