one of our IT guys got bitten by a redback, but his boyish bravado made him keep working to impress us with his superior networking skills 😄 ,,,, until he started stumbling and breathing funnily :^O

I thought I got bitten by a redback once, on the back of my neck. I felt the bite and reached up and pulled the thing off my neck and flung it away. It felt smooth and blobby like I imagined a redback might feel and I had just seen a nest of them near my garden furniture. So logical...not.

I was looking after my kids and two others. Thought about driving to the Dr and then thought that was dumb in case I went unconscious and killed us all. I called the ambos. Told the kids whoever found what bit me got $20. Ambos said I would live and redback bites don't kill most people.

I should've just called the mother of the visiting kids. She IS a Dr. Anyway, it was a bee. I found it stumbling about on the windowsill. I got the $20. WINNER!  ;\