The Yankalilla-based Spider Bite Recovery Support Group says the winds are unearthing leaf litter sending spiders that use this as their habitat to go running and many are coming indoors.

New webs are appearing in places they have not been seen before.

This kind of weather is usually in August and September not January.

“Something has really changed our weather patterns and this is the la nina weather, with lots of rain still to come,” Helen Midgley from the support group explained.

Helen says has been kept very busy with new victims. Not long ago she saw some children playing in a heap of leaf litter.

“If only they knew the dangers that lurk there,” Helen, a white-tailed spider bite victim, said.

She asks parents to please warn their children not to pick up piles of leaves and throw them over each other.

“It is really nasty when a child becomes a victim,” she said.

Helen had a report from a victim in WA how her cleaning lady was going through some boxes of things to be sorted and killing many white tails that had made the boxes their home.

At the same time she leant on the door jam and was bitten by a black house spider (badumna longinqua) from the family Desidae.

“She is quite ill at the moment as these spiders can cause symptoms like vomiting nausea and muscle cramps, also diarrhoea and aches all over the body,” Helen said.

She also has a report that some scientists and researchers are now beginning to realise what she has been saying all along, there is such a thing as re-occurring necrotising arachnidism and it is happening to many of the victims she has registered.

Helen has the beginnings of another outbreak at the moment but has been using Eucanol spray available from The Spider Bite Recovery Group and it is clearing up.

This is why she has set up the website http://spider-bite-recovery.org.au so people can receive the correct help to heal up their wounds.

Wolf Spiders are out and about also. These are the same colour as the huntsman but have black and white striping on their backs.

“These spiders are doing the same kind of damage that the white tail does, the wound breaks down and an ulcer forms, which sometimes leads to gangrenous problems, if not treated promptly,” Helen warned.

“If you get bitten don't hesitate to put the spider in a jar and go straight to your doctor to have the spider identified and treatment started.

“Then contact the support group and it will guide you to a recovery, please note the new email address, hfmidgley@bigpond.com.”