Spider "bites"

Spiders have been in the news lately. First there was the story of the nudist down Bowral way who tried to drop some petrol and then a match down a funnel web nest and managed to burn 18% of his body, seemingly all lower regions; and the other about a man in Britain who took home a spider he found - which turned out to be a black widow spider which had arrived in a freight delivery from Australia. The spider was humanely destroyed after a home could not be found for it. Black widow spider bites are apparently as venomous as a rattlesnake's.