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Rex Gilroy - Dangerous Spiders Public Awareness" Project

The Rotary Club of Katoomba has launched a “Dangerous Spiders Public Awareness” project with the objectives of educating the public on the various dangerous, and not so dangerous spider species found around the home and their control. The projects’ objectives are not only to assist the public in the identification of spider species, but also in commonsense measures to avoid sustaining a bite, and if bitten the correct first-aid treatment to administer the victim.

Katoomba Rotary Club is presently targeting the Lismore District, due to the current serious Funnel Web and White Tail Spider occurrences in back yards and inside homes in the Lismore/Kyogle region. This is partly due to the commencement of the mating season of Funnel Web/Spiders, when they are at their most aggressive, entering homes on warm or rainy nights in search of a mate or food.

As part of the project, the club has produced an illustrated booklet covering all the major dangerous, and not so dangerous spider and scorpion species commonly met with in and around the house, together with the life histories and habits of the various species. Besides advice to parents of young children on how to avoid being bitten, there is an illustrated step-by-step first-aid procedure.

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To Be Updated 2008

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