When you are stationed outside the U.S. (other than Europe typically) everynight is an inspection of every inch of your body.Ahem. ;-)
A certain small nation in the South Pacific has no snakes whatsoever and only one poisonous beastie: a spider called the Katipo that hangs about in dry wood near beaches and can deliver a bite that smarts if you badger it. There are also disgusting things that keep trying to come across from Australia which has a collection of the worst imaginable poisonous things with horrific habits- like giant deadly spiders who decide that a toilet bowl or shoe is a great place to live, including the delightful funnel-web spider (google it), fleets of Portugese men-o'war patrolling beaches with festoons of paralyzing stingers towed behind... and all sorts of lovely other stuff.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1