Australian Museum Online
The Australian Museam Online has a great Fact Sheet on Funnel Web Spiders. It covers the Atrax and Hadronyche species of funnel webs. It has sections on their:
- habitat and distribution
- identification
- habits, mating and reproduction
- toxicity
- first aid
- control
- links, and
- references
My favourite quotes are:
“The males spend their entire short adulthood seeking as many receptive females to mate with as possible.”
“During mating, the male must restrain the female from striking him with her fangs using the spurs on his second legs…”
“Juvenile males will stay in their burrows until their final adult moult, after which they will become wanderers.”
I think these facts go to show just how much spiders and humans have in common.
November 25th, 200611:43 am at
looking for videos or dvd’s that cover the spiecies of funnel web spiders…can you assist?
November 25th, 20061:09 pm at
Hey Ramon,
That was a great question! So good, I wrote a whole post about it, check it out. You’ll find your answer there.