FUNNEL-WEB "lives around your house" SPIDER - Henry's Wild Life

Hi, I'm Henry, I'm an environmentalist. I spend my

life

looking for animals. I'm really excited to show you some amazing creatures, so come on, we're in my backyard because this animal

lives

around my

house

. Fantastic, anyway, some people might find them a little scary, but I love them. Let's go find a

funnel

web

spider

. We'll start looking under anything solid in the garden, as well as stones, potted plants, and here I have a lot of roof. shingles because years ago I put up some shingles to try to attract animals to the garden, maybe some lizards or a small snake maybe, but I haven't found them, but I have been finding

funnel

webs, let's take a look under this one anyway .

Well, there's nothing under here, but let's check another place I know. Okay, let's try this place. This is a great place for funnel networks. We'll take a look and see what we can find. good luck, ooh, swim underneath, there are some snails, look at these nice pieces of

spider

web over here that's a funnel web burrow, sure I can see there's a nice burrow and this big web of spider web, now each one of those threads will flow back into the burrow. the spider

lives

on, so any insect that crawls across those web strands will alert the spider to its presence and then the spider will run out and swallow it now, before you turn this around, just I want to talk about how dangerous these spiders are and that this is not something you should do at home, but they are fantastic creatures.

I love seeing them, so let's take a look. Oh look, that's a monster that's a funnel web spider. What if this one looks like a big female? males are a little smaller but also get much larger than this. Wow, what a beauty. These are very long-lived species. They live anywhere up to 20 22 years 23 years old. That's a lot of time. Now it's the middle of the day. It probably is. freaking out because it's nighttime, we could borrow it for a while, take it inside where it's a little cooler and darker and we'll take a proper look at it, okay, we're back in the lab and off we go.

To learn some interesting facts about this little creature, well it's pretty big, it's actually a Sydney funnel web and its scientific name is atrax robustus. Many spiders will hurt if they bite you and may make you a little sick, but only a couple. It can kill you and this is one of them, fortunately scientists have developed an antidote which was manufactured in 1981 and since then no one has died from the bite of a funnel web spider. Hooray! They introduce the poison into their prey through these two huge fangs that they have in front of their face.

Those fangs are slightly articulated to bite their prey. The spider has to rise up a little. They take out their fangs and strike. Down, it is actually quite difficult to get bitten by one of these spiders, most people are bitten when they are males. that crawls during the summer enters

your

house

and takes refuge in an old shoe or a glove. Now these spiders are incredibly poisonous, so if they bite you you have to go straight to the hospital because the venom works so fast that you need to get some of that magical antidote inside you as quickly as possible.

Another amazing fact I have learned about these beautiful creatures is that they are able to survive underwater only for a little while. What happens is that if they fall into the water, the hairs on their abdomen are removed. It creates a little pocket of air around them and as they sink to the bottom, that pocket of air allows them to breathe for up to 30 hours, 30 hours underwater, so you have to be very careful if you see one on the bottom. of a swimming pool. Because it might not be a dead spider, it might just be resting underwater for a bit.

Wow, it's been a great day for this little spider, so I think it's time we put it back where it wants to be. I think this creature is something incredible. He'll spend his whole

life

on this little piece of land, all the food comes up here to shelter and that's what he eats from things like cockroaches, centipedes, other spiders, he'll eat them all anyway, he'll be able to go back there and do his important work. . from pest control ready girl thanks little spider that was great and that's all for today so see you soon on our next adventure stay

wild

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