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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 9:28:46 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 9:51:18 GMT -8
www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/telamonia.asp(and, thanks to Court for this one) urbanlegends.about.com/od/spiders/a/two_striped_telamonia_2.htmTo quote the article she linked There is, to be sure, an Olive Garden restaurant chain with locations in North Florida, but no mysterious fatalities have been reported at any of those, either.
Telamonia dimidiata
What's new in more recent variants of the hoax is a description of an actual species of spider known as the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata). According to entomologists, it's a jumping spider native to parts of Asia, but I have yet to find any authoritative sources confirming that its venom is deadly to humans. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 10:29:30 GMT -8
That's a relief.
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