If a spider was small enough to fit in a teacup without you noticing it is almost certainly not poisonous and if it was poisonous there will be too little poison to matter for a person. Even most large spiders when deliberately biting can't do much than make a limb swell up uncomfortably. Small spiders can't even do that. If a small spider is getting digested then then there's really no serious worry.
Hmm, interesting. I suppose I should have done some research before spouting off. I guess I'm use to living in the Northern US where there's really only one small seriously dangerous spider, the Northern widow (and my general spider knowledge is really limited to the US). (My impression also is that the bite is much more likely to be fatal to a child or elderly individual.) Even then, both the Northern and Southern black widows are much larger than 10 mm when full grown.
Although 2 cm is a very large critter. That's sort of in the yikes category.
I agree that that must have been very inconsiderate of the spider.
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Although 2 cm is a very large critter. That's sort of in the yikes category.
I agree that that must have been very inconsiderate of the spider.
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Enough of this topic now! Yuck! (Pulls faces at the memory)
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