>When you are stationed outside the U.S. (other than Europe typically) everynight is an inspection of every inch of your body.
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>Ahem. ;-)
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>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.

How about the box- and irukandji jellyfish? The former is supposed to be excrutiatingly painful, and has accounted for many deaths. But the irukandji would seem to be MORE deadly in that, like the wicked spider subject of this threadlet, it doesn't have a particularly nasty sting.