Hi, Dear Steemian Friends.
Today I would like to speak about a spider that has bitten some of the people I know and would like to know if anyone has some information about it. This spider is found in Thailand but I believe it is common in South East Asia countries. Every year, at the beginning of the rainy season we have many of these spiders coming inside houses. It as nothing to do with Tarantulas that stay calm in their holes in the garden, this kind is sometimes big like my hand and very fast and can also jump at least a meter. It also has the ability to run on the water surface. I would like to know the name of this spider, Thais around my house call it "maingmum pit" and if I traduct in English it means "spider with poison". This spider is really aggressive and really fast, so it is hard to kill. It also seems it has a very good vision as if I come close to try to kill it with a bloom it starts to run and quickly find a place where it is hard to get it. I also, witness a big dog walking on one of these spiders and the spider starts to run after the dog in an attack position. I never see something like that before and even if it happens with a tarantula it will back up from the dog not attack. One of my friend here get bitten by one on his leg and the result is really bad starting with a big blueish abscess, after a few days it turns into a deep hole in the flesh and after more than a month of treatment he has many necroses where he was bitten. Another friend gets a really nasty bite next to his hand and the bite was nearly like a venomous snake bite even he was under medication to get it cure. Other people also tell me that it is a bad spider. A few years ago was registered in Pattaya the first human death because of this spider. I am sure the death is the cause of the man getting allergic to the venom. If anyone has the name of this spider please let me know as now it is the start of the rainy season and some of them enter our house. The spider in the picture was around 8 cm but some are more like 15 cm with the legs. Thank you.
Here is the spider.
Here is my friend bite three weeks after. The white inside is some cream from the hospital.
Beware of this spider.
Love and Happiness
