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Thursday 22 August 2013

Funnel-Web spider


General statement:
Funnel Web Spider belongs to a big family of spiders.
Descriptions: The funnel web spiders lives up to more than 8 years or more. It is black and it has 8 legs. Their web are funnel in shape and 25 or 35 millimeters.

Habitat: Funnel- Web Spider can be found in Australia or sydney it lives in trees or barns.

Appearances:
Funnel web spider are large black spiders with a shiny head/thorax. The body may range from 1.5 cm  up to more than 5 cm long depending on the species. Female funnel web spider is stockier than the males, with shorter legs and a bigger abdomen, which may be brown or bluish. The eyes are small but mostly grouped. The fang bases extended horizontally.   

Conclusion:Funnel web spider is a very deadly spiders and should not be a used as a magic trick or  you want to end up like this guy.                            KNOCKOUT!!!!!!!!

Behaviour and adaptations
Male Sydney Funnel web spider have a habit of wandering into backyards suburbans swimming pools, where they can survive in many hours. They also sometimes enter and become trapped
in houses. Again, it is true  that sydney funnel web spider  have one of most toxic venom (to humans) of any spider. However  it is not true that all funnel web bites are life threatening. The venom of juvenile and female sydney funnel web spider is much less toxic. Nor do they jump onto or chse people or live in houses these all urban myths

Identification
Sydney funnel webs are shiny dark brown and black spiders with fingers like spinnerets (silk spinning-organs) at the end of their abdomen. Males have a large mating spur projecting from the middle of second pair of legs. Of threatened Sydney funnel webs show aggressive behaviour rearing and displaying their impressive fangs.  



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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

A very sophisticated report Taniela, well done!

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