tarantula

Cockroaches, centipedes, tarantulas, scorpions, and mosquitoes are abundant in summer. … Tarantulas and scorpions are little noticed by those who have been there any length of time.

The small funnel-web tarantulas are sedentary but notable for their aggressiveness and the strong action of their venom on human beings. A. robustus and formidabilis have caused human deaths.

[I]t is better to be pained with the ſting of a Snake, and recouer, then be tickled with the venime of Tarantula and dye laughing: …