Talk:Telamonia dimidiata
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Level of Toxicity
[edit]If anyone has any information on how toxic, if at all, these spiders are, please add on to the page. Ace Fool (talk) 21:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- Ace Fool,
My Father is a doctor in Northern Flordia. He tells me this is 100% true and that it is not a hoax! People have really died from this and it is EXTREMLY toxic!! Check this website: www.msnbc/deadly_indospider.zoomshare.com
New note: 07/15/08 I say you all do your own research. I just got the email that still been going around since 1999 I guess...that this spider is found under toilet seat rim in public restrooms. Well have we thought about all the other bacteria that lingers around in a public restrooms..and creepy part you can't even see it (this dude didn't sign)
- Ace Fool, this type of spider is not toxic at all because it doesn't produce venom.
- BTW, the link above is not to MSNBC, but rather to some spoofing site that mimics their URL with a trick.
- This spider is completely harmless. Actually, it's helpful, but it's not a spider you will find in my part of the country. ::Jumping spiders are some of man's best friends, and I always put them in my garden when I find them.
- No, this spider isn't going to kill you at the toilet. The commenter above is posting that for the Lulz 74.192.158.110 (talk) 18:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
- If people are gonna claim that this spider is non-venomous, you NEED a source for that. Non-venomous spiders exist (the family Uloboridae being the most frequently given example), but I've never heard of a jumping spider being non-venomous. That would be very unusual.
Note: it's still not dangerous to humans, but saying it's non-venomous suggests that it can kill prey without venom, which is a very unusual ability among spiders. Hannah Davis (talk) 22:18, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Hannah Davis: apart from the hoaxes and false information circulating, this is a classic example of human-centred thinking: because something is not venomous in the sense of being able to envenom humans, it's not venomous full stop. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:57, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
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