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The hunting spider (Nosferatu spider), which can be up to eight centimeters in size, has now also been detected in Pforzheim for the first time and is known in the Karlsruhe area.
Karlsruhe/Pforzheim – If you go on holiday in Germany and Europe in the summer, you can increasingly come across poisonous animals that can be dangerous for people. True, most are poisonous animals in Germany and Europe not fatal, but their bites or contact with them can cause severe pain. More severe symptoms such as breathing problems are also possible, which primarily – but not only – affects allergy sufferers.
Nosferatu spider in Karlsruhe and Pforzheim: animal hunts like a vampire
In the List of the most dangerous animals in the world box jellyfish and various species of fish in exotic waters are at the top. Their venoms are also deadly to humans. In Germany and Europe it is primarily snakes and spiders that have to be observed in nature. In Karlsruhe and Pforzheim, a species of spider was scientifically proven that was originally native to the Mediterranean region and was brought unnoticed by people, experts suspect.
The brown Nosferatu spider, which can be up to eight centimeters in size, owes its name to the strange drawing on its back, which with a little imagination looks like the image of a vampire – for the background, in the silent film Nosferatu (from 1922), the protagonist is called a vampire, Nosferatu. Similar to the mythical night figure, the Nosferatu spider is a hunter and is therefore also known as the hunting spider (zoropsis spinimana), how BW24 reported.
Name Jagdspinne (Pisauridae) classification real web spiders Order Webspinnen (Spiders) class Arachnids (arachnida) subspecies Nosferatu Spider (Zoropsis) —
Poisonous spider in Baden-Württemberg – people should avoid contact
And the spider seen in Pforzheim and Karlsruhe shares another thing in common with Dracula: it is usually out and about at night and “attacks its prey and overwhelms it,” he reports SWR. Their bite is venomous and fatal to their victims. The Nosferatu poison is less dangerous for humans, those affected compare a bite with a wasp sting. The pain that occurs is usually weaker than that Complaints after a wasp attackit says in the SWR-Message.
In contrast to a wasp sting, a hunting spider bite can cause skin reddening or swelling, which in some cases lasts for days. The Karlsruhe Natural History Museum, which also specializes in spiders, therefore recommends not seeking direct contact with the Nosferatu. Incidentally, the hunting spider sighted in Pforzheim and Karlsruhe is not the only one of its kind to make headlines in Baden-Württemberg.
Not just Nosferatu spiders: Invasive species are conquering Baden-Württemberg
Their fellow species, the banana spider, which can be up to ten centimeters in size, was flown to Baden-Württemberg as a stowaway in banana crates. Great was the shock when one Lidl customer discovered the poisonous spider. It was the fire brigade who had to hunt the animal and accidentally killed it. Unlike the Nosferatu, banana spiders are isolated cases in Germany, but other spider species have long since found their home in the southwest.
Die noble ball spider from the Canary Islands for example, became in at the end of 2021 Baden-Wuerttemberg discovered. And also the Population of the Nurse Thornfinger Spider is in Baden-Württemberg grown, which is poisonous like Nosferatu and banana spiders. However, the spiders aren’t the only creatures that have made their home in the Southwest. Four Exotic mosquito species make Baden-Württemberg unsafeincluding the “world’s deadliest animal”, the tiger mosquito.
Spiders, mosquitoes and quagga shells: climate change noticeable in the southwest
It’s not poison, but it’s no less dangerous invasive quagga mussel in Lake Constance, which causes many injuries in the current bathing season alone. According to experts, one of the main reasons why more and more invasive species are appearing in Baden-Württemberg is climate change. It doesn’t get that cold in winter, so exotic species can also hibernate in this country. And even in summer there are the best conditions for the animals, which, once they are there, are difficult to eradicate.
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