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Originally Posted by CaliNative
One of the scarier spiders. Are they common in Sydney suburbs? Anything to rival them in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane? Snakes? Any close encounters with crocs? Deadly jellyfish? Sharks?
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They're scavengers - so you really only see them on the ground, in gardens or backyard pools. They can come into houses but gardens are probably where you'd have an encounter.
They're really only in the Sydney area.
Snakes can be an issue anywhere in Australia really - although I've only seen a
Brown in the wild once. Snakes are very easy to deal with though: if you see one, don't antagonise it/walk away. If you encounter a cut* snake, run in the opposite direction!
The most frequent critter encounter you're likely to have in urban/rural Australia, however, is with a
Huntsman spider. Big, ugly, but fundamentally harmless (they actually fulfil a role: they eat flies lol) - they live in trees normally and will evacuate/make their way into houses before rain starts.
* mad/pissed off/angry - we have an expression for it: "as mad as a cut snake"