Yes, really. I’ve had enough of comparing supermarket prices for fruit and veg, meat, fish and other stuff, let’s compare snake bite seasons. In just one weeks time it will be winter here in Australia. Where I live though, Brisbane, you really wouldn’t think it. Daytime temperatures have been sitting at around 25° to 27° [...]
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I’ve mentioned the red-bellied black snake a few times around this website, but I’ve never actually posted a photograph of one or spoke about them in any real detail. So let’s change that today. This is a red-bellied black snake… Here’s another one, he has popped his head up to have a good look around… [...]

Last Friday I talked about the particularly nasty venomous eight legged critters that cause a good deal of anxiety to many people. The post was called Venomous Spiders for Pain Relief. Today I’m talking about a different venomous creature, one of the very few mammals in the world that are. The platypus It was nearly [...]

You will already know if you have read my entire blog, (you have read my entire blog, haven’t you?) That the most venomous creature in the world is the box jellyfish. I told you all about him on September 10, 2009. Now, I really didn’t want to tell you this, but I have decided I [...]

Comedian Billy Connolly describes the stonefish as looking kind of cute, a bit like the drummer out of The Muppets. He says that whilst telling a four minute long joke called “the worst pain known to man”. And apparently, being stung by a stonefish is just that. So, best avoided. Anyone who read my post [...]