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Originally Posted by jimbuna

I also consider those of us living in the UK as being very lucky...we only have the common Adder snake and that rarely bites and is even less likely to prove fatal...unless you have a heart defect etc.

Aye, that's the only real poisonous animal in here too and it's very rare that they bite: usually they scarper already when you are trampling your way trough the bushes a few kilometres away.

Though every year about this time our media goes crazy with the news of some new, weird and exotic little bug that has somehow found its way over the border and is eeeeextra icky scary disgusting dangerous! Boo! It's beyond me why, but our journalists seem to have some sort of collective fetish for them, based on the way they write those articles . This year it's some new tick and a bug that apparently sprays its eggs right into your eyes thinking you're a moose.

They never seem to stick around, though. I guess they are just smart and notice their mistake soon enough. "Bob, you moron, I told you we should have taken the left road, not the right one! This is Finland, not England! Give me that map!"