Presumably, being Aussie spiders
these would be things like my personal favourite the golden orb weaver, delightfully described in the botanics in Sydney as "considered harmless by Australian standards. Territorial and very aggresive, even towards humans. Bite side effects include irritation, swelling, nausea, dizziness, tissue necrosis" ?

You country has epic cuntspiders.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:10, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Huntsmans, a weird orange striped one, and lots smaller black ones.
my skin was crawling the whole time.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:13, Reply)

did you gas them?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:14, Reply)

Huntsmans are possibly the ugliest bastard spiders in the world
Although, bizarrely, they aren't venomous, are they? They must get the piss ripped solidly by all the other spiders.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:28, Reply)

They don't need to be poisonous
They're big enough to wrestle you to the ground and inject their eggs directly down your throat facehugger style, should they so choose.
( Kroney, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:35, Reply)

Sorry, venomous.
I do know the difference, honest.
( Kroney, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:41, Reply)

piders
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:17, Reply)

"Considered harmless by Australian standards" "tissue necrosis"
There is no other place on Earth so utterly inimical to human life as Australia aside from the bottom of the ocean.
( Kroney, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:26, Reply)

I cannot for the life of me work out
why little things with no natural predators bigger than a hedgehog would evolve venom so extravegantly lethal that it can bring down a hippo.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:30, Reply)

For the lolz?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:32, Reply)

it's all just for the shits and giggles.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:34, Reply)

Sheer spite, badge. Sheer bloody-minded spite.

( Kroney, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:32, Reply)

there used to be some enormous stuff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna#Extinct_Australian_megafauna

maybe they were dead jealous of a hippo with a pouch
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:46, Reply)

I know I am.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 11:57, Reply)