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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 157572" data-attributes="member: 26980">Generally old world ones are considered worse then new world ones.Psalmos, such as P irminia are thought to be somewhere in between. These are new world Ts, but lack urticating hairs.Mechanical damage from fangs is also a factor and directly related to size.  Another important factor is attitude. A defensive T is that much more likely to bite. Some Ts have a strong feeling response but they are ignoring you & focusing on that which they vaguely suspect of being food, basically anything that stands about 1% chance of being edible. That's not the same thing.</blockquote>