still a damn good warning to watch for spiders, new or old, real or imaginary, heard of a women down naracoorte way, freind of a freind, put the phone to her ear, little white tailed spider on the earpeice, climbed inside her ear and bit her on the inner ear??

lost her hearing in that ear and part of her outer ear,

my brother in law had a little beetle creepy crawly, flyie thingy climb in his ear canal whilst sleeping, the buzzing made him fall over, couldnt walk, couldnt sleep, couldnt think, operation under aneasthetic to dismantle and remove the thing

wombat is doing a good thing to just make people aware of creepy crawlies, they are literally everywhere, please be carefull, check bedding before jumping in, check clothing, check shoes, not overdramatising just making aware, the same as wombat is doing!!!