This of course is a rare an unfortunate incident which due to foreign imports is becoming slightly more frequent; I would also like to add that this is not a case of migration, due to climate change as the spiders originate from Australia and as far as I know have not been documented as being found in large concentrations anywhere else.
The man unfortunately lost his life due to lack of knowledge of the spider species and also not responding quick enough to a incident that clearly required urgent medical treatment, as the man was bleeding quite heavily.
Red back spiders as I mentioned previously originate from Australia and are from the family
Latrodectus which contains black widow spiders, to which the red back shows a resemblance with its black body with red dorsal stripe and hourglass mark on its underside. It is genuinely found across Australia and is often found living in human settlements forming funnel like webs. Whether this species could survive in the UK is questionable as our climate varies from which it would find back in Australia where it is known to decline in the winter months with, a temperature roughly around 16 degrees Celsius which when compared to our winters that easily fall into the minuses would suggest that they would not survive here.
So for now all we need to concern ourselves with is just making sure that whenever we buy a product from aboard, is to check that nothing else has come along with it.
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