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What Lurks Under the Toilet Seat… Factor Fiction? Story ONE Ambushed! Story ONE Ambushed! Fact…..or …..Fiction? Fact!Truth! Story One: Ambushed! From as far as research can tell this gentleman’s story is true. It was not published in a scientific journal, but was published in a local paper. The article can be found on: /spider2.htm The Spiders and Toxic Mechanism Spider 1 (from story 1): Red-back Spider Latrodectus hasselti Latrodectus hasselti They are dangerous and can inject neurotoxin into bloodstream. ~250 people/ year bitten by male Red-backs and only a few hundred by female Red-backs. Females are slow moving and generally leave no sign of web. The most common bites emerge when accidentally caught in clothes and then pressed against the person’s skin. Only 1 death reported since anti-venom discovery in 1956. This is one of the few species where the male assists the female in sexual cannibalism. During mating the male will place its abdomen in the females mouth. The female will begin to cannibalize before mating is over. After mating the female will usually not mate again. They make a good pet! In September of 2004, inmates at Grafton maximum security prison in New South Whales were found keeping Red-back spiders as pets. Supposedly they were milking them for their venom for a high but no evidence supports this theory. They are closely related to the black and brown widow spiders, found in North America, and katipo spiders. They are infamous and even have a song… Mechanism Similar mechanism to the Black widow neurotoxin: Latrotoxin Targets the synaptic bulbs of the Acetyl Choline by dissolving in the synaptic bulbs of Acetyl Choline Neurons and allows Ca+ efflux Ca+ ion is used by the body as a signal for a high action potential arriving. This conveys a message to release the neurotransmitter. The neurotransmitter causes the synaptic gap to flood and bind with high affinity to Acetyl Choline, thus opening the ion channel