Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Australia's Cactus Attack - Early 20th Century" video.
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Good, someone filled in this Prickly Pear idsue. I had intended to comment and forgot in the end.
Yes we had quite a growtj in our garden, Prickly Pear , Pig Face, and several more vertical prickly types of cactis. But on the end my mother, who did majority of our gardening, was sick of the spines, particularly the fine clusters of Prickly Pear, in fingers or on arms and legs that over a period of years we removed all garden cactii. Still had smaller indoor potted ones just not scaytered between other garden ateas.
For me the Pig Face were a Red Back spider, venomous, problem as regularly withon that cactii were nests of these spiders, to the point that I did get a serious byte once while weedong around one of the Pig Face at our front porch. All gpne after a lounge extension was added, removing an entire garden bed. Other plants were in the replacement garden bed including several roses.
Presently have several cactii with spineless flat leaves smaller and longer shape as Prickly Pear, in several pots, and only two small bulbous cactii. We have mainly other Australian native plants, and I have some Fly Trap plants. Majority of garden is over grown weeds, roses, lemon trees, plum trees, hedges, cumquat, wattle, pomegranat.
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@katymcdonald5481 ok thanks, I was not sure of its origin, as so many cactii are introduced types.
The Pig Face was almost permanently occupied by Red Backs, not quite as bad as lower beam of the wooden feces between homes.
My spiders, all types were regular food for my lizards, so in some ways I was happy enough, but gardening was a bit of effort to avoid the worst. To some extent I was glad I got the Red Back bite not my mother who did most weeding, etc.
Crazy me, I did not even get medical treatment, washed bite area, bled out the wound, then the recommended, now rejected way, and suffered sore swollen hand and some days of elbow and shoulder pains. Normally I caught them as lizard food, along with most other spiders, insects, snails slugs, even some scorpions.
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