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Do you watch the tv show Kings of Pain? Two guys have different animals, snakes, spiders etc etc bite them and rank the severity, duration and damage. Last week they had an OBT bite them and apparently it ranked very high on their list.
Not sure how I landed on your channel. Probably a short leap from venomous snakes, and the wonder that is UA-cam. But I have a couple of comments. (Rare after only one video.) 1. I truly appreciate that the video started with, “Let’s get right into it” and you actually MEANT it. So many UA-camrs say that, even some really good ones, but only AFTER 2, 3, 4 minutes of blah blah blah. 2. You are incredibly well spoken. Well modulated, very fast-paced but with no detrimental effect. Very articulate and obviously extremely literate. You could be very successful hosting and doing voice-over work on just about any subject you choose. 3. And of course, love your passion for the subject. Best of luck.
I like your channel. I would never and I mean never have a animal like that in my home. This channel let's me learn about them and try and understand why people keep them as pets without the extreme fear of having one near me.
DO NOT do a list, when you lack the brains to do some research. Why put in a whole FAMILY of spiders an then refer to it as "the wolf spider"? Do you have something against wolfs spiders? Why call yourself "Tarantula collective" when you don´t know what a real tarantula is? Is is absolutely idiotic to include any wolfspider in a video titled "top 10 most venomous" when they are not even close. Was it to hard to find any other species that you had to include a whole family of harmless spiders? Most likely you just stole the list from some blog... thank god this awfull clickbait video hasn´t more views.
As an Australian I can confirm that the Redback spiders are definitely found in the cold alpine areas. I have lived in the Snowy Mountains and we had redbacks everywhere, always found in the garages and our wood piles.
I encountered a black widow in southern argentina but the pattern wasnt exactly like the american one. But it was in a vineyard so now Im wondering if it could've been a redback
I think the golden rule is; A) if in South & Central America avoid spiders (especially with red chelicerae) B) if in Arabia, India or North Africa, avoid scorpions. C) if in Australia, just avoid everything.
I find it HARD to believe the Brazilian Wandering Spiders venom isn't harmful to humans, you could say it has some pretty STIFF competition, but I feel the bite is one if not the most painful. Not to ERECT a pedestal for it to stand on, it deserves it's spot in the top 3
He never said it isn't harmful lol. He even said there are several cases of deaths reported in the recent years... Every year people still die from it. She is currently the most dangerous spider in the world, but the most venomous is the sand one, but gladly very rarely has any contact with humans.
I’d argue that the brown recluse is not easily recognizable, especially given how often harmless spiders such as cellar spiders, southern house spiders, giant house spiders, wolf spiders, and others are mistaken for them. Unless you know what you’re looking for, brown recluse spiders look like a generic brown spider. No doubt this is why you hear of people claiming to encounter brown recluse in places such as Washington State, where they most certainly don’t reside.
I feel you, but anytime someone says they saw I brown recluse, I ask if it had the violen shape on the carapace and they typically say "no". It looks a lot like other spiders for sure, but the violen pattern is a pretty big giveaway. But I understand where you're coming from for sure!
We have a lot of people where I live that claim to see them way to much, 99.999% it's just a NA Grass, or northern house. I think it's mostly do to fear rather than the not easy to identify, just like every black spider is a black widow, or orb weavers are brown widows, anyone that grew up where they are common knows what the violin looks like.
Bro tell me the fuck about it!i live in NEW ENGLAND. N i had a pt.who came in with a nasty flesh eating bacterial lookin infection n the Dr. Literally agreed with the pt it was a browns bite..i deff had to speak up n say lets take apiece of the flesh for a biopsy cuz no way are they unless u personally have as a collector it probably was a nasty staph infection ..but ya i too have problem with ppl who clearly don't know wtf there talkin about !lol
From what I understand, the venom of the sac spider isn't what causes necrosis in victims. Instead, it's a staph infection. Also, because of the similar appearance to the brown recluse (to the average person) in addition to the results of a bite, it is often misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites here in New England.
Although a bit arachnophobic, I love learning about different species of spiders. I lived in Waterloo, Ontario Canada for 5 years and always had a yellow sac spider companion in my house. Although they made me nervous, not once did I get bitten despite having them in such close proximity. I'd honestly rather have them in the house than centipedes and ants
I was bitten by a brown recluse. It was in the bedsheets when I got into bed and it bit me in the arm. I ended up with an open sore that was about the size of a quarter. It took about three months to completely heal, and I still have a scar there 20 years later. I still sometimes have pain at the site, too. I now check the sheets before I get into bed. I also check clothing and my shoes.
I mistook a wandering spider for a huntsman in Costa Rica, I was trying to get a picture when i noticed it was acting really aggressive for a huntsman. The guide hiked down to where I was and informed me. I immediately went on my way 😂
I would never guess in a billion years that the hide and seek sand spider is the most dangerous. I still want to keep one. They just seem so funny to me.
In my mind and based on information in your video, the Sydney Funnel Web should be No.1. A bite from a Funnel Web is treated the same as a snake bite and is considered as lethal as a bite from some of our (Australian) more poisoness snakes. Although no one has been killed by a Funnel web in more recent years (as stated), that is a result of our prolific anti-venom program, SM Au
Correct. It's the most toxic venom to human beings. It's a venomous compound specifically deadly to primates. The only primates to exist in Australia are human.
Member benefits really paying off today! Richard my wife Yolanda ordered some shirts for me and you sent her a video thanking her! She really appreciated it and keeps making me jealous with it lol. Thanks man
I live in Australia and the region I live in is Red Back Spider territory. I have been bitten a couple of times over the years. Their bites are moderately painful and you tend to feel a bit off color for a few days. They are generally non-aggressive, however, accidentally disturbing their webs/nests will rile them a bit. As they say.. it is pretty much a given that, Red Backs have seen more humans then humans have seen Red Backs. The same applies to the snakes in Australia.
it does also depend on their personality too, like people, all animals have personalities of their own and spiders are no exception, some redbacks tend to be very agressive and do like to bite every creature they see, but granted maybe not all are like that, but when i was a little girl i got bitten by a very agressive one, i did see it first and knew to stay away from it so i thought i did, until one of my fingers started to itch, i looked at it and it was was nasty, and it was at that point i noticed the redback crawling up the sleeve of my school dress, coz i went to one of those schools where the girls get a school uniform dress, although the same thing happened to my brother just 2 years later, except in his case it was worse, with him having to be revived twice, mate i will say, any animal at all, sometimes you never know if you can truely trust them, especially here in australia, what would seem like a non agressive animal can also be a very agressive animal
You should look up the Aussie Mouse Spider. Scarier looking and bigger than a funnel web but almost as poisonious. They nest in large mounds too of hundreds of them and come crawling out of the ground at night.
I had a funnel web in NSW Newcastle area 1.5 hours from Sydney, I saw the spider moving to the back door until it saw a ball of cotton on the ground. The spider moved to the cotton, wrapped around and sunk its fangs in and sat there. I thought to myself " Imagine if that was my toe? "
Fun fact. As an Aussie’ I can confirm that the Funnel Web also loves floating about in your backyard pool. The adore water, and being as light as they are, the surface tension of the water, keeps them afloat. Thus, when you go for a paddle, you can end up being bitten. It was the first thing we did before jumping into the pool on a hot day on the North Shore…Look for these sneaky buggers.
Can I ask why you would choose to live in a country that is overrun with deadly insects and animals? You Aussie's also have white tail spiders that carry flesh eating bacteria and hide in gardening equipment. I would be terrified if I lived there. How do you do it?
@@grog3514 Are you American, if so, how do you live in a country where it is possible to come home to a bear overturning your rubbish bins? Most Aussies do the right thing and just leave them alone, usually they want to just get away from you. A few rules, be careful lifting up rocks, logs or anything else laying on the ground, at the beach don't lift rocks or cans(favorite home for a blue ringed octopus) and if you see a snake leave it alone, unless you are a drunk young male who can't resist hitting it with a stick.
@@mickm6309 only select areas have to worry about bears. The people who live there almost all have large caliber rifles / revolvers. I hike in bear country and I carry a 44 magnum when I do. The difference is that I choose when to enter that environment. Aussie's seem to just coexist with deadly aggressive animals. It feels like you would have to be hyper vigilant every time you are outside. I only have to be super alert in bear country.
@@grog3514 Most animals are not really aggressive, just leave them alone and they leave you alone. Humans are to big to eat by Australian animals except sharks and crocodiles, dingoes are the largest Australian carnivore and even they will stay away from humans except in areas where people feed them.
Funnel Web spider's fangs can easily pierce a toenail and leather shoes they can also be found on the bottom of your swimming pool surviving underwater for between 24 and 30 hours so always check your pools.
He forgot to mention one of the other symptoms of the Wondering spiders venom. In some cases, it can cause an extremely painful and long lasting erection. Seriously!! As if this spider wasn't scary enough already! 😵
We’ve cared for Widows for years; love their shyness. Our OBT thinks it’s an Atrax. Our little Gooty is a total spaz still….. Gorgeous footage here, as always!
The guineas book of records is not a scientific journal, also O hate this video, they're normally good, but this one has attracted a bunch of no nothing morons
As a fun fact: I read about Peter Jackson basing the film version of Shelob on a Sydney Funnel Web Spider 🕷. He said while in Australia 🇦🇺 filming The Lord of the Rings trilogy, SFW’s creeped him out so much that he used them to base Shelob off of because he wanted her to be as scary and creepy as he found the SFW. JOB WELL DONE 👍🏻
The spider was actually The Black Tunnelweb spider (Porrhothele antipodiana). Which is native to NZ, it is related to the Sydney Funnelweb spider, but it is harmless.
@@musicbill101 Well whatever, but the article I read said he had a fear of the Sydney Funnel Web, and wanted Shelob to give off the same vibe. Not sure if Peter Jackson mis spoke or got his spiders mixed up, but that’s what the article said.
Great information! I had no idea the gooty tarantula was one of the most dangerous tarantulas. Because just earlier today I watched a video on rare spiders and someone was holding an adult just passing it hand to hand..I realized the danger immediately being an ow, but they never talked about that at all. As always, I appreciate the solid information compared to those that want to push the fear factor or those that show careless and dangerous handling.
A couple of years ago there was a death in qld attributed to a red back spider bite. First spider bite death in Australia in over thirty years! It's commonly thought that the spider responsible for the most injuries and deaths in Australia is the huntsman spider. Whilst the venom is not really dangerous at all, they have a habit of making their way into cars and the theory is quite a few accidents may have been caused by the driver being spooked by a huntsman jumping on them whilst driving!
Thanks to your channel I am now interested in owning Ts and I have almost completely gotten over my fear of spiders. Great footage and information! Found your channel through Wickens Wicked Reptiles
Great show, great energy mate. The Funnel Web is indeed one scary spider. I live on the Central Coast, just north of Sydney, and we get them here. A mate had a pet one he kept in a terrarium. Beautiful but deadly. Keep it up.
The intro was so quick and to the point! Love it!! Sorry i just had to point that out, so many peoples intros are almost a full minute long so i love it when people get straight to the video
just love seeing all those different kinds of spiders 😁🕷️🕷️🕷️ always great to see some of the more common spiders like the yellow sac spider and the wolf spider getting some screentime 🕷️🕷️ awesome video richard! 👍
I really enjoy your work and like that you had the Yellow Sac spider first. In 2015, I more than likely was bitten by one. I had an infestation of them in my home. Long story short, I ended up in the hospital for 30 days. During that time, the doctors first told my family to say their goodbyes. But with their help, I beat it with only losing some of my leg.
When I lived and worked in VA I discovered my workplace was full of widows. Then I moved to SE Nebraska where I immediately found out my house (theirs?) had recluses. I freaked! At this point I was still a major arachnophobe. The first one I found trapped in my kitchen sink I torched...and then I felt bad and called myself a hypocrite. I breed and keep snakes and make it a point to try to teach people that snakes are not the scary evil beings everyone thinks. So I started researching and realized that, while it still existed, my chance of being bitten was probably pretty darn low. The next one I caught in the kitchen sink and took it outside, placing it behind my shed. Since that time my fear of 8 legged beasties has subsided and I now keep Ts. Great video!
Every spider on this list should’ve been from the Atracidae family, which is the family that Atrax robustus (Sydney Funnelweb) belongs to. There are around 40 scientifically described species with many more still yet to be described.
Only six species of this family have caused severe injuries to humans, and one of these six species (Hadronyche macquariensis), has been responsible for only one case of severe envenomation out of 6 reported bites, and the victim was a six-year-old child.
I guess most venomous and most dangerous are two different things, a lot of the venom in Hadronyche are comparable to each other, though some species live in more remote areas and are less likely to encounter people, therefore we don’t have the data.
Living in the suburbs of Melbourne Australia, I could easily go outside and find 15 or 20 Redback spiders in my backyard. But I won't. They're quite reclusive and for all practical purposes harmless, ive certainly never had one inside the house. That I know of lol.
Sydney Funnel Webs take a half hour to kill a human. Brazilian Wandering takes an hour and a half, but anti venom is not easily accessible in Brazil, as in Australia. Not sure why sand spider is rated #1.
First, he said it's for edutainment, not a published sciebtific paper, and you're wrong about how fast these spiders kill, because they don kill that fast. Sydney Funnel web spider will not kill someone in a half hour, unless you're a very little child, according to "IPCS INCHEM home" most children died in one to two hours (those younger than 12 years old may die in 4 hours), adults usually died in eleven hours to three days, with the slowest death in six days. The brazilian wandering spider will not kill someone in an hour and a half, the fastest death caused by a wandering spider in a health adult was in six hours, and two hours in an adult with cardiac problems, and the fastest death was in 30 minutes, of a 10-year old child, so no. The time of death will not show you how toxic an animal is, the amount of venom needed to cause death is what matters, for example, Loxosceles produces only 4 microliters of venom, and the amount of venom injected is less than 4 microliters, they are still responsible for more deaths than any other spider. The species responsible for most of the severe envenomations and deaths are Loxosceles laeta, intermedia, gaucho, in Brazil, from 2017 to 2021, they were responsible for 45 deaths, which is more than the wandering spider, which caused 12 deaths, let's look how much venom they inject: Loxosceles laeta and Loxosceles rufipes, which are the most dangerous in Peru, inject only 0.5 to 1.0 microliters of venom, and the death rate in Peru is 18% for those over 13 years old and 50% for those under 13 years old. In Chile, the chilean recluse was responsible for a severe systemic envenomation rate of 18.8% and mortality rate of 19.1%, so based on their very low venom yield, and the fact that they kill more than any other spider, they are considered the most venomous spiders in South America and possibly the most venomous in the world along to the sand spiders.
@@asmrcritique6565 @asmrcritique6565 Aparently, you didn't read carefully what I wrote, wandering spiders and funnel-webs are not the "deadliest" spiders. The terms "deadliest" "most dangerous" and "most venomous" aren't the same thing. The term deadly refers to how many human fatalities that species is responsible for, and the Sydney funnel web was responsible for only 13 deaths, and since 1980, no one has died from its bite. South American recluse spiders are responsible for more deaths than any other spider, in Brazil alone, from 2017 to 2021 there were 45 deaths by recluse spiders, especially Loxosceles laeta, loxosceles intermedia and Loxosceles gaucho. In Peru, they have a mortality rate of 18% for those over 13 years old and 50% for those under 13 years old. In Chile, the chilean recluse has a mortality rate of 19.1%. These spiders produce only 4 microliters of venom (and injects about 0.5 to 1.0 microliters, and even with very small amounts of venom, they are responsible for more deaths than both wandering spiders and Sydney funnel-webs, can a funnel-web kill a human injecting only 0.5-1.0 microliters? No, they can't, they Will no kill in 30 minutes, I explained before (I also added sources) that prove that Syndey funnel-web spiders do not kill that fast, you Just ignored what I wrote, reread my comment above carefully.🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 Also, there is not an official "most venomous spider", South American recluse spiders might be the most venomous along with sand spiders, especially african sand spiders, based on their very small amounts of venom, and the fact that they are responsible for more deaths than any other spider, South American recluse spiders (including Loxosceles laeta) are the only spiders with a mortality rate comparable to that of a scorpion, like it or not.
I’m a locator and had a coworker bitten by a brown recluse. He didn’t think anything of it until the necrosis. He ended up having to get reconstruction surgery on the tendons in his hand
They hurt and I got a little nauseous, but it wasn't until the skin and muscle around the bite started dying that I realized that the brown spider that crawled up my pant leg was a brown recluse. It also triggered an autoimmune reaction, that hasn't stopped after 4 years.
Brazilian wandering is commonly seen around here where I live (in the state of São Paulo). It is easily found near waterfalls, although I've never seen a big one.
I have two Brazilian wandering spiders in terrariums at my backyard. I feed them with crickets, roachs, and small crabs and dragonflies I catch in the nearby manguezal.
Great video. Being from Virginia and now in W.V. for a decade, we are outside a lot and have encountered many questionable friends over the years. The wolf spider, brown recluse, and black widow have creeped me out since I was a kid. The venom obviously no one wants a part of. Idk what kind got me in the sleep one night camping but man that bite left a scar and hurt like hell for awhile. Yet I love tarantulas, scorpions, and whatnot... But not the unwelcomed kisses in the wild while I'm sleeping I could do without.
A 19 year old man was killed by a red back bite a few years ago. He was bitten on the neck while going through bushes. Not sure how this was determined as it happened at night but it’s likely Australian medical personnel have significant experience at recognising these bites. Most victims get treated and sent home with minor effects.
We have such a fantastic array of Species over here! Granted non are dangerous or pose a medically significant threat to us, but the vast variety we have is amazing!
We do have a good few but most are really hard to find like the green huntsman spider it's tiny same with our jumping spiders and ladybird spiders shame that we have no tarantulas tho
@@h3ntaihunt3r we have one mygalomorph (same family as Tarantulas) it's called the purse web spider(Atypus affinis) It's pretty but cute. Tends to live on the side hills.
Second this! Extra points if Rich includes the Green fang / tube Web. Have some in my garden every year and I've been trying to catch one with no luck so far 😂
I live in Australia, and Huntsmen spiders are common here. I jarred one as big as my hand last night, as a saw it through my peripheral vision, on the way to the fridge. They are a cold weather spider. And I let it go outside. Funnel webs are simply frightening, especially the deadly male. Always give my shoes a good shake in the humid months.
I am LIVING for this video!!!! I must say, I had a wolf spider in the house a couple of weeks ago that was bigger than 2"!!! I have videos and pics but omg it took me an hour to get her out of the house because I was so terrified LOL When I first saw her in the corner I SWEAR I immediately thought one of the T's got out, somehow, because she was so big! We get big spiders out here in the country, especially wolfs, but I've NEVER seen one this big. It was incredible. I wish I was a little less scared of her so I could have gotten some better footage but she was too damn fast for me to mess with too much. GREAT video! I absolutely love any of the educational vids!
Okefenokee fishing spiders can get like, 4" plus in legspan. Had one camping out (ha ha) in my kayak as a kid once and I think it sparked my fascination with spiders
I live on the gulf coast. My mother and a friend had to be hospitalized due to a brown recluse bite. Be careful .they are usually hiding in clothes and bedding that hasn't been disturbed for awhile
I was bitten by a brown recluse when I lived near Chicago in an apartment. I treated it myself by removing the dead tissue 1 inch deep and a half an inch across. Dumped alcohol in the wound and kept it clean, 15 years later I got a circular scar that looks like I got shot in the leg.
Had a widow get in my shirt while clearing brush on my property. It zinged me 3 times on the shoulder before I could get the chainsaw out of my hand. Called my doc, and he told me to keep in touch with him, and keep an eye out for necrosis. Had a couple days of feeling like crap, stomach cramps and body pain. Don’t recommend it, but I’m still here. Can still see marks 2 years later.
Thing about SFW is that they live where are loads of people and they have a reputation for being very bad tempered. They'll rear up defensively when approached and charge. The big females have inch long fangs that'll punch thru a glove. So definitely wouldn't want to piss one off
Is P. metallica really the most venomous tarantula? I mean i know all pokies have strong venom but I always have heard that H. macs and S. cals have the worst bites
Once I almost touched a Brazilian wandering spider at my house. It was night when I went to the kitchen and turned on the switch of the light, it was right bellow the switch. I almost die from the panic but fortunately did not been bited. I know it was Brazilian wandering spider because here where I live in the south of Brazil, there are only two species of big spiders unless tarantulas: wandering spider and wolf spider but wolf spider does not climb walls.
Let me say that I did not expect yellow sacs to make this list. They are everywhere here in Ohio and I always have a run of them inside once fall comes around. They hurt when they bite and they do leave a nasty reminder, but I would not expect them to be top 10.
From the research I did I was looking at venom potency, not so much at the amount of venom that is actually injected. So I think they might be one of the many spiders o. The list and in nature that has a strong venom, but doesn't or can't enough in to a human yo really do major damage in most cases.
Great video as always. I had no idea that yellow sac spiders would make it on the list. There are a bunch in my house. I actually recently just caught one in a cup and have been keeping it. Just fed it today, and it was quite neat to see it hunt and catch its prey while suspended from the top of the enclosure. I have a new found appreciation of them.
They're cool little spiders for sure and rarely ever bite humans. But supposedly they do have some pretty potent venom. But like a lot of spiders on this list, the venom might be potent, but they cant/wont/don't inject enough from a bite to really be of much harm to humans. Plus it is always fun to add an unexpected species on lists like this just to rile up the trolls...lol
used to live in rural Alberta and one year opened the closet to get the winter sweaters out only to find a very well-fed northern widow had made her home there and whoops it was a handling neither of us expected!
Surprised you were aware of the Six Eyed Sand Spider, but by the time I got to number 2, I had a feeling it would be number 1. I had quite a few of these over the years. I read that they think the venom could be as potent as a Puff Adder, which I also had.
I didn't think wolf spiders would be on this list, I've been bitten by so many and it just itches for a few days. When I was a kid a funnel web wolf spider made a web in a bag of nails in the garage, my brother and I named her Misses Wolf, we fed her and hung out with her for months and she was basically a pet.
I didn't realize wolf spiders were venomous enough to be on this list lol. I live an area where there's a whole bunch and have picked up a few with them showing no fuss or aggression.
Those arent wolf spiders. Garden spiders look like wolf spiders but are different. Garden spiders are not aggressive. Wolf spiders are. I see both on a daily basis bc Im a wildlife photographer. Ppl mistake wolf spiders w common garden spiders all the time. Wolf spiders are more likely to go after your hand if you put it down next to it. Garden spiders usually wont care.
I had one chase my hand around on a cardboard box before dumping a daddy long leg onto the box. The wolf spider turned its attention to the long leg and literally tore off all its legs before just leaving.
Just as an information: black widow spiders are also known to be present in Italy. Altough, as an italian, I can tell you I've never seen one. So, as I've never seen one in 40 years, I suppose I can say they are pretty rare. Maybe, they live in hotter places (I live in northern Italy, in winter we easily freeze below -10C°)
I remember on one of your videos, you had stated that you cant bond with your tarantula among a few others However i know someone who had one and it really did know who his owner is, he would give him his paw when he asksd him it was amazing
Just found this channel and glad to see 2 Aussie species on the list. We had a female red back for 11 years and she would lay eggs every year and we used to remove them except one time. We got home and had over 100 baby spiders crawling and spinning webs all over the cabinet she was kept on. I also had a female funnel web and used to feed her cockroaches. I would stir her up with a stick and like in the pic you could see venom dripping off her fangs, then I would throw the food in and watch her attack. I heard Atrax robustus females can live for 20 years. I also had a male but he died not long after I caught him. When I used to look for reptiles I only ever found one male, but lots of females.
Kudos to including the brown widow and six-eyed sand spider, which are often overlooked in these kind of lists. The danger of wolf spiders and yellow sac spiders is highly exaggerated and would be put to shame by others not on the list you have quoted, e.g., Australian mouse spider.
Hi there! Good video emphasising that whilst they can be harmful they rarely are. I just want to point out that the group of spiders atrax robustus is from contains around 30+ species and there's evidence that some are more venomous than atrax robustus like hadronyche formidabilis. Yes im from Australia 😉
I take it the P. metallica was used as a stand in for tarantulas in general? The wolf spider bite doesn't hold a candle to any of the OW species and multiple of the NW species of tarantulas.
Wolf spiders.. creepy? Na man, they are beautiful, their verious colors & markings, those 2 big eyes, on the front of their 'face'♥️. They're one of my favorites! Being Australian, I can honestly say, the Funnel Web can be considered creepy🕷️ Redbacks are everywhere over here! They live in amunst us humans!
G'day from Australia🙃, I don't know if you have seen it but there is a YT video called "The Making of Antivenom - A Seqirus Story" on the CSL Seqirus channel which is a history of Australia's Anti-Venom, I was born at Gosford on the NSW Central Coast next to Wyoming which is where the original Australian Reptile Park was located, they are now located at Somersby closer to Australia's main highway & it was created by Mr. Eric Worrel & his family to educate & provide venom for our Anti-Venom program. ARP has grown so much to now include Aussie Ark which is a Native Fauna Conservation helping to save our endangered species which has breeding programs & now enough land further north at Barrington Tops located on the Great Dividing Range in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales to provide them with a "Natural Bushland Ferral Free Home"
When i was a young lad of 17 i saw a indian oramental for sale for pretty cheap with the glass tank , when i asked the shop why the T was so cheap they told me it had put it pervious owner in a comma for 3 weeks when it bit him. I did buy the tarantula after i had a ton of qeustions chucked at me about tarantulas and there care ect and after they asked me what experiance i had with keeping Tarantulas never had the promblem with the T but i was always mindful where the tarantula was when having to open the tank and i never ever tryed picking him up and also treated him with respect.
Where I am we could find 200+ red back spiders nesting. It is summer and they are hiding under outdoor furniture, in sheds, anywhere dark and dirty, these guys love debris. However, they are never found in clothes or shoes.
I was bitten by a yellow sac spider. I felt flu-ish for a couple days and my finger developed an itchy bump that turned purple and then made a pock. It was on a pair of jeans I was pulling out of a shelf to wear, and I thought I had a ball of lint on them. Nope! It was that. I didn’t know what it was- took it in a baggie to the ER and then kept it in the baggie taking it with me places, showing people “my spider”. This was before UA-cam so I bought a magnifying glass and drew its eye pattern and figured out what it was. Curious- why the yellow sac and not the Hobo? Aren’t they pretty nasty??
I remember the last person in Australia to die from a funnel web spider bite in 1980 was a little boy aged 2 years old. I was 11 years old and remember it vividly. I grew up in Sydney and have never seen one outside of a zoo. I would visit a friend in the Blue Mountains area and she would be very insistent that you always check your shoes before putting them on.
I have donated at least 10 funnel webs to the antivenom people. They are very common. Mostly males that wander looking for females between the months of November through to May
Always nice to see your video after a long day at work man. I’ve got three tarantulas thanks to your videos. I’ve got the green bottle blue, the versicolor and the curly hair. They are such interesting and fascinating creatures.
the funnel web's range is from southern NSW to North Queensland. Their habitats vary accordingly. They've found a subspecies that lives in the sand dunes of Fraser Island (the largest sand island in the world) and others in the tropical rainforests of the north. Sydney got the notoriety because of that crossover ie their habitat in a big city. The reason their is a anti-venene. People were dying and money was spent on research to find the anti-venene.
@@nickbradbury347 There's a Southern Tree Funnel Web which stretches well into South Eastern Australia. It's the location the Sydney version haunts that is the biggest drama, the Northern and Southern Tree Funnel Webs are both more venomous but less likely to be encountered.
Just to put a slight dampener on things - Funnel web spiders exist all over Australia. The deadly one is known as the Sydney Funnel Web (Atrax Robustus) and is responsible for several deaths - the most infamous being a young woman who was seven months pregnant. The Sydney Funnel Web exists essentially on Sydney's North shore and as far west as Lithgow and north to the Hawkesbury River. I have never seen a Sydney Funnel Web in the wild but did find other types of Funnel Webs when working inland from Mackay in Queensland many years ago. We were wondering what all these small round holes were that suddenly began to appear in the ground. Using a knife, we dug down and discovered the funnel web about 10 cm underground. Given this knowledge we kept our eyes on the other holes and were glad we were wearing heavy workboots.
Hello Sum Wun - I stand by what I have written. I will also add that the funnel web spider is a sub group of myglamorph group of spiders which includes the trap-door and tarantula spiders. One extra thing to note - the funnel web is not one spider but is made up of several types(species) of spider and various species of the funnel spider exist in various parts of Australia - their existence spreads beyond NSW and Queensland. As for your comment that a lot of myglamorphs look like funnel web spiders - this is, of course, true and also applies to many other spiders - huntsman spiders are often confused with Tarantulas. Further - Adelaide is not Eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea is not part of Australia. As for the rest of your comments I suggest you refrain from demonstrating your own ignorance.
@@ianraper4304 Hi Ian. In your opinion what effect would the NSW flooding have on these guys. Do you think they'll be forced into areas where you wouldn't normally find them.
As a residential electrician, I will never forget the time I shined my headlamp onto a brown recluse while running wire underneath a house in the crawl space. After running that line I got out to put duct tape around my wrists and ankles to seal my clothing 🥲
As an Aussie, I have to completely disagree with the point that Redbacks are not aggressive. Those things are pure evil and they are well known to bite and try to kill absolutely anything that comes near them.
Out of curiosity why do you never plan or want to own the funnel web spider? I’ve seen all your videos and you own true spiders with high venom such as the banana spider, so what Is it about these species?
from everything I have heard, they are very defensive, more apt to try and bite you, and bite multiple times to ensure envenomation. And they don't have their antivenim in the US, that is mostly on hand in Australia where they can be found in the wild.
I know there are a few genus like Macrothele and others you can get in the states, but Atrax sp are all from AUS and as far as i know you cannot import any animals from Australia
@@chrissears5482 I’ve heard that too- I haven’t seen anyone w an Australian Funnel Web except Australians- I’ve seen some with Japanese Funnel Webs, which are still pretty feisty. I was curious about Richard’s list, because besides the Hobo spider (pacific NW), I feel like several of the Australian spiders were missing (mouse spider, the “Whistling” tarantula) that I’ve heard can be pretty bad
@@tarantulacollective Even in Australia with subsidised medicine the cost of each antivenom treatment is probably a 5 figure sum. It would get pretty expensive regularly replacing your safety net as it goes out of expiry date. Cheaper to come over here and play with them.
I live in country Australia. I bought a funnel web. Females live for like 15 years and are less venomous than the males so I was like yeah, I'll get a sheila. Well turns out the one that was sold to me was a mature male, he was extremely defensive too. Bitten by a female in South Australia, I may have a chance to be flown to Sydney in time for antivenom, being bitten by a male? Yeah nah, fucked. I managed to find somebody in Sydney and managed to get him there in return for 4 spiderlings in the hopes at least 1 would be female and any males would be sent back. Unfortunately I was living somewhere with no air-conditioning and we had a summer where it got to 50c (I think 122f) and they passed away. Yeah nah, no more funnel webs for me. Now I just keep whatever I find locally like badumnas and redbacks and shit. Though venomous, redbacks just chill in their webs like 99% of the time and are super low maintenance. The second deadliest spider I've had in my possession is a red-headed mouse spider I got in my freezer for future resin work. They even look as dangerous as they are, very beautiful spiders.
I've got four beautiful Badumnas living around my kitchen window. They've been there for quite a long while and do a marvellous job of keeping the bl**dy flies down. Window looks a bit funky (think 'Addams Family'), but the girls are all happy and growing really, really big, what with the great diet they're getting (sandflies, house flies and German cockroaches). They're very modest and prefer to hang out inside the funnel-shaped webs which they knat across each corner of the window. They come out mostly at night and just as the sun comes up. Arabella, Beatrix, Candace and Daphne all send their best regards to spider lovers everywhere! :)
Just found your channel, I like your enthusiasm. I've been bitten by Huntsman, Redback, Wolf and Northern Tree-Dwelling Funnel Web spiders, all but the Redback were dry bites thankfully, although the Funnel Web was by far the most painful and I still have two tiny scars from those fangs 30 years later. Maybe you could include this bad boy in one of your vids. And yes, I'm Australian. Consider me subscribed.
Alright Richard, I'm getting a little jealous. Where are you getting these dope Tarantula Cribs shirts. I'm on their website all the time and just find their basic shirts. Great video. Love the content no matter what it's on. Learning new things is always great. Keep it up. Blessings from Colorado 🤙
@@mre912 they definitely keep me stocked up. Also, they know I pretty much only wear jeans and black tshirts...so sending me black shirts like that is like free advertising bc I can't resist the urge to wear them...lol. tarantulas AND black tshirts....I'm a suckered for them.
Nice vid, interested to know where you rate the mouse spiders from here in Australia, there seems to be conflicting views on the potency of their venom
The Wandering Spider is still definitely the 2nd most dangerous and deadliest for obvious and self explanatory reasons. Sydney Funnel Web being the first because of more frequent bites and bite rates. As you mentioned you would have to go out of your way to get bitten by a Sand Spider as compared to the ones literally known as Banana spiders which arrive in shipments and such. Also the fact that they can pop up far more frequently and there have been much more bites than the extremely rare Sand Spider cases.
According to statistics, over 4000 people are treated annually for Brazilian Wandering Spider bites compared to 40-50 bites from Sydney Funnel Webs. Severe envenomation only occurs in 1/200 bites from the BWS, and 4/20 from the SFW. So you're correct in saying that SFW is the more dangerous of the 2, but you're far more likely to be bitten by a BWS.
Black Widow Spiders are super pretty. I have only seen one up close in the wild when i was little but it's beautiful black shine and crazy bright red spotting. Not that I am scared of spiders but I am more worried of Wolf Spiders than i am Black Widow oddly enough.
The brown recluse are quite prominent in the southern midwest US. I've seen scores of them, or their evidence on my nephews ranch in NW Arkansas. One thing about them, they are exo-skeletal. You're more likely to find their abandoned skeletons in paper, cardboard boxes and wood piles than anywhere else. Yes, they will flee form you. I feared them until I found/discovered any number of them on the ranch. Afterward, using normal precautions I've had no problems... just be careful where you put your hands and fingers.
I tell ya, As Sydney person. I'm more afraid of a white tail spider, as everyone I know who has copped a bite ended up with long term complications. We had Funnel web at home. it was the 90's wasn't a surprise. The Spider place they make the anti venom. They took it away. But Funny about the red back, I got like 12 or more living around one of my cars. I just keep an eye out for them when I bother to turn over the engines. But it's always the females you find and the egg sacks. I like most as they eat the other pest and insects but just wish they would not decide to live in my car mirror housings
Great video as always!! Yo you need to do video just like this but about scorpions, and maybe explain the LD:50 scale and how it works!! There’s tons of people that don’t understand it and how it works and how the potency of scorpion venom works!!
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Do you watch the tv show Kings of Pain? Two guys have different animals, snakes, spiders etc etc bite them and rank the severity, duration and damage.
Last week they had an OBT bite them and apparently it ranked very high on their list.
Not sure how I landed on your channel. Probably a short leap from venomous snakes, and the wonder that is UA-cam. But I have a couple of comments. (Rare after only one video.) 1. I truly appreciate that the video started with, “Let’s get right into it” and you actually MEANT it. So many UA-camrs say that, even some really good ones, but only AFTER 2, 3, 4 minutes of blah blah blah. 2. You are incredibly well spoken. Well modulated, very fast-paced but with no detrimental effect. Very articulate and obviously extremely literate. You could be very successful hosting and doing voice-over work on just about any subject you choose. 3. And of course, love your passion for the subject. Best of luck.
I like your channel. I would never and I mean never have a animal like that in my home. This channel let's me learn about them and try and understand why people keep them as pets without the extreme fear of having one near me.
DO NOT do a list, when you lack the brains to do some research. Why put in a whole FAMILY of spiders an then refer to it as "the wolf spider"? Do you have something against wolfs spiders? Why call yourself "Tarantula collective" when you don´t know what a real tarantula is? Is is absolutely idiotic to include any wolfspider in a video titled "top 10 most venomous" when they are not even close. Was it to hard to find any other species that you had to include a whole family of harmless spiders? Most likely you just stole the list from some blog... thank god this awfull clickbait video hasn´t more views.
As an Australian I can confirm that the Redback spiders are definitely found in the cold alpine areas. I have lived in the Snowy Mountains and we had redbacks everywhere, always found in the garages and our wood piles.
I was in the high country in rural vic also a snow area and same
common enough to be taken for granted here.Very timid.
I encountered a black widow in southern argentina but the pattern wasnt exactly like the american one. But it was in a vineyard so now Im wondering if it could've been a redback
Yep there everywhere in Oz , Perth boy
2 nights ago, after a storm, I saw a big huntsman in my house.
I think the golden rule is;
A) if in South & Central America avoid spiders (especially with red chelicerae)
B) if in Arabia, India or North Africa, avoid scorpions.
C) if in Australia, just avoid everything.
There are many spiders in Central and South American with red chelicerae that are harmless, and not all phoneutria species have red chelicerae.
No need to avoid scorpions in Australia, none of them are dangerous here.
@@BugsandBiology Yeah, them and possums are definitely destroying our reputation.
And D) if in North America, avoid snakes, the eastern and pacific seaboards during hurricane season.😅
C)....Clearly met my neighbours then
I find it HARD to believe the Brazilian Wandering Spiders venom isn't harmful to humans, you could say it has some pretty STIFF competition, but I feel the bite is one if not the most painful. Not to ERECT a pedestal for it to stand on, it deserves it's spot in the top 3
He never said it isn't harmful lol. He even said there are several cases of deaths reported in the recent years... Every year people still die from it.
She is currently the most dangerous spider in the world, but the most venomous is the sand one, but gladly very rarely has any contact with humans.
HARDy har har…
I have a juvenile female red fang wandering spider, they are num 1 they have killed in the past (recorded) deaths
I’d argue that the brown recluse is not easily recognizable, especially given how often harmless spiders such as cellar spiders, southern house spiders, giant house spiders, wolf spiders, and others are mistaken for them. Unless you know what you’re looking for, brown recluse spiders look like a generic brown spider. No doubt this is why you hear of people claiming to encounter brown recluse in places such as Washington State, where they most certainly don’t reside.
I feel you, but anytime someone says they saw I brown recluse, I ask if it had the violen shape on the carapace and they typically say "no". It looks a lot like other spiders for sure, but the violen pattern is a pretty big giveaway. But I understand where you're coming from for sure!
We have a lot of people where I live that claim to see them way to much, 99.999% it's just a NA Grass, or northern house.
I think it's mostly do to fear rather than the not easy to identify, just like every black spider is a black widow, or orb weavers are brown widows, anyone that grew up where they are common knows what the violin looks like.
I go for the violin check too.
Bro tell me the fuck about it!i live in NEW ENGLAND. N i had a pt.who came in with a nasty flesh eating bacterial lookin infection n the Dr. Literally agreed with the pt it was a browns bite..i deff had to speak up n say lets take apiece of the flesh for a biopsy cuz no way are they unless u personally have as a collector it probably was a nasty staph infection ..but ya i too have problem with ppl who clearly don't know wtf there talkin about !lol
look for six eyes, they are commonly confused with rabid wolf spiders
From what I understand, the venom of the sac spider isn't what causes necrosis in victims. Instead, it's a staph infection. Also, because of the similar appearance to the brown recluse (to the average person) in addition to the results of a bite, it is often misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites here in New England.
Although a bit arachnophobic, I love learning about different species of spiders. I lived in Waterloo, Ontario Canada for 5 years and always had a yellow sac spider companion in my house. Although they made me nervous, not once did I get bitten despite having them in such close proximity. I'd honestly rather have them in the house than centipedes and ants
I was bitten by a brown recluse. It was in the bedsheets when I got into bed and it bit me in the arm. I ended up with an open sore that was about the size of a quarter. It took about three months to completely heal, and I still have a scar there 20 years later. I still sometimes have pain at the site, too. I now check the sheets before I get into bed. I also check clothing and my shoes.
I mistook a wandering spider for a huntsman in Costa Rica, I was trying to get a picture when i noticed it was acting really aggressive for a huntsman. The guide hiked down to where I was and informed me. I immediately went on my way 😂
😂 OMG
I would never guess in a billion years that the hide and seek sand spider is the most dangerous. I still want to keep one. They just seem so funny to me.
They are incredibly cute to me. The way they bury and wiggle themselves into the sand is the best.
In my mind and based on information in your video, the Sydney Funnel Web should be No.1. A bite from a Funnel Web is treated the same as a snake bite and is considered as lethal as a bite from some of our (Australian) more poisoness snakes. Although no one has been killed by a Funnel web in more recent years (as stated), that is a result of our prolific anti-venom program, SM Au
You do know that with a Brazilian Wandering Spider, you can still die even after antivenom is administered?
Also snakes aren’t poisonous
Actually they're tied, they both kill in 15 minutes
Brazilian wanderers are Alot more venomous..both aren't good though.
Correct. It's the most toxic venom to human beings. It's a venomous compound specifically deadly to primates. The only primates to exist in Australia are human.
Member benefits really paying off today! Richard my wife Yolanda ordered some shirts for me and you sent her a video thanking her! She really appreciated it and keeps making me jealous with it lol. Thanks man
That is awesome!
I live in Australia and the region I live in is Red Back Spider territory. I have been bitten a couple of times over the years. Their bites are moderately painful and you tend to feel a bit off color for a few days. They are generally non-aggressive, however, accidentally disturbing their webs/nests will rile them a bit.
As they say.. it is pretty much a given that, Red Backs have seen more humans then humans have seen Red Backs. The same applies to the snakes in Australia.
it does also depend on their personality too, like people, all animals have personalities of their own and spiders are no exception, some redbacks tend to be very agressive and do like to bite every creature they see, but granted maybe not all are like that, but when i was a little girl i got bitten by a very agressive one, i did see it first and knew to stay away from it so i thought i did, until one of my fingers started to itch, i looked at it and it was was nasty, and it was at that point i noticed the redback crawling up the sleeve of my school dress, coz i went to one of those schools where the girls get a school uniform dress, although the same thing happened to my brother just 2 years later, except in his case it was worse, with him having to be revived twice, mate i will say, any animal at all, sometimes you never know if you can truely trust them, especially here in australia, what would seem like a non agressive animal can also be a very agressive animal
Also dam that’s some nice brown recluse footage
Too bad it was missing a leg. Pro footage! It's like that person does this for a living or something. Weird....... lol
@@dustystotler1376 hahah yeah I found it in my bathtub yesterday just in time 😂
@@tarantulakat Oh wow! so lucky! Perfect timing as well!
Eww!!
@@tarantulakat ah and you filmed it as you released it outside?
You should look up the Aussie Mouse Spider. Scarier looking and bigger than a funnel web but almost as poisonious. They nest in large mounds too of hundreds of them and come crawling out of the ground at night.
I had a funnel web in NSW Newcastle area 1.5 hours from Sydney, I saw the spider moving to the back door until it saw a ball of cotton on the ground. The spider moved to the cotton, wrapped around and sunk its fangs in and sat there. I thought to myself " Imagine if that was my toe? "
Fun fact. As an Aussie’ I can confirm that the Funnel Web also loves floating about in your backyard pool. The adore water, and being as light as they are, the surface tension of the water, keeps them afloat. Thus, when you go for a paddle, you can end up being bitten. It was the first thing we did before jumping into the pool on a hot day on the North Shore…Look for these sneaky buggers.
Can I ask why you would choose to live in a country that is overrun with deadly insects and animals? You Aussie's also have white tail spiders that carry flesh eating bacteria and hide in gardening equipment. I would be terrified if I lived there. How do you do it?
People are used to where they are born
@@grog3514 Are you American, if so, how do you live in a country where it is possible to come home to a bear overturning your rubbish bins? Most Aussies do the right thing and just leave them alone, usually they want to just get away from you. A few rules, be careful lifting up rocks, logs or anything else laying on the ground, at the beach don't lift rocks or cans(favorite home for a blue ringed octopus) and if you see a snake leave it alone, unless you are a drunk young male who can't resist hitting it with a stick.
@@mickm6309 only select areas have to worry about bears. The people who live there almost all have large caliber rifles / revolvers. I hike in bear country and I carry a 44 magnum when I do. The difference is that I choose when to enter that environment. Aussie's seem to just coexist with deadly aggressive animals. It feels like you would have to be hyper vigilant every time you are outside. I only have to be super alert in bear country.
@@grog3514 Most animals are not really aggressive, just leave them alone and they leave you alone. Humans are to big to eat by Australian animals except sharks and crocodiles, dingoes are the largest Australian carnivore and even they will stay away from humans except in areas where people feed them.
Funnel Web spider's fangs can easily pierce a toenail and leather shoes they can also be found on the bottom of your swimming pool surviving underwater for between 24 and 30 hours so always check your pools.
Thank you for this video Richard. It's nice to have one of these videos without having to demonize the creatures.
probably wont get the millions of views the videos that demonize spiders get, but hopefully it will help get some reasonable info out there!
This community is strong. We can accomplish anything!
@@tarantulacollective as with all of yourcontent, it's informative and only promotes the good about our 8 legged friends!
Keep up the good work bud!
This changes everything. For a long time, I thought the Brazilian Wandering Spider was number one. I Love watching your videos.
He forgot to mention one of the other symptoms of the Wondering spiders venom. In some cases, it can cause an extremely painful and long lasting erection. Seriously!! As if this spider wasn't scary enough already! 😵
We’ve cared for Widows for years; love their shyness. Our OBT thinks it’s an Atrax. Our little Gooty is a total spaz still…..
Gorgeous footage here, as always!
According to the Guinness world records the Sydney funnel web spider is the most dangerous spider in the world.
Yeah it is no question
Funnel web will kill you in as little as 1 hour
The guineas book of records is not a scientific journal, also O hate this video, they're normally good, but this one has attracted a bunch of no nothing morons
As a fun fact: I read about Peter Jackson basing the film version of Shelob on a Sydney Funnel Web Spider 🕷. He said while in Australia 🇦🇺 filming The Lord of the Rings trilogy, SFW’s creeped him out so much that he used them to base Shelob off of because he wanted her to be as scary and creepy as he found the SFW.
JOB WELL DONE 👍🏻
They filmed in New Zealand though?! And Shelob doesn't really look like a funnel web to me...
The spider was actually The Black Tunnelweb spider (Porrhothele antipodiana). Which is native to NZ, it is related to the Sydney Funnelweb spider, but it is harmless.
@@musicbill101
Well whatever, but the article I read said he had a fear of the Sydney Funnel Web, and wanted Shelob to give off the same vibe. Not sure if Peter Jackson mis spoke or got his spiders mixed up, but that’s what the article said.
When I saw it I literally thought if Shelob lol
@@Mr.EmeraldTheGreenor maybe the article you read got it mixed up. Not Peter Jackson himself
Great information! I had no idea the gooty tarantula was one of the most dangerous tarantulas. Because just earlier today I watched a video on rare spiders and someone was holding an adult just passing it hand to hand..I realized the danger immediately being an ow, but they never talked about that at all. As always, I appreciate the solid information compared to those that want to push the fear factor or those that show careless and dangerous handling.
A couple of years ago there was a death in qld attributed to a red back spider bite. First spider bite death in Australia in over thirty years!
It's commonly thought that the spider responsible for the most injuries and deaths in Australia is the huntsman spider. Whilst the venom is not really dangerous at all, they have a habit of making their way into cars and the theory is quite a few accidents may have been caused by the driver being spooked by a huntsman jumping on them whilst driving!
Love the true spider content! It's difficult to find videos on them with good footage and good narration, thanks!
Thanks to your channel I am now interested in owning Ts and I have almost completely gotten over my fear of spiders. Great footage and information! Found your channel through Wickens Wicked Reptiles
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy yhe videos and Adam is a cool dude!
Some of these on the list surprised me. Didn’t know the sand spider was the most venomous. Didn’t even expect the yellow sac spider to be mentioned.
Gotta throw in a surprising species every now and then to keep things interesting!
@@tarantulacollective Totally!
No antivenom. Number of fatal bites too low to justify it.
Deaths from other spiders like Funnel Webs used to be quite common before the antivenom.
Great show, great energy mate. The Funnel Web is indeed one scary spider. I live on the Central Coast, just north of Sydney, and we get them here. A mate had a pet one he kept in a terrarium. Beautiful but deadly. Keep it up.
The intro was so quick and to the point! Love it!! Sorry i just had to point that out, so many peoples intros are almost a full minute long so i love it when people get straight to the video
For a second I thought you were going to play a joke on us and say number one was a "Daddy Long-Leg". lol
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the 6 eyed sand spider you don't need a licensed to have one lol
I was expecting a list of 10 spiders that can kill you, but still a cool video. Informative and right to the point.
just love seeing all those different kinds of spiders 😁🕷️🕷️🕷️
always great to see some of the more common spiders like the yellow sac spider and the wolf spider getting some screentime 🕷️🕷️
awesome video richard! 👍
I really enjoy your work and like that you had the Yellow Sac spider first. In 2015, I more than likely was bitten by one. I had an infestation of them in my home.
Long story short, I ended up in the hospital for 30 days. During that time, the doctors first told my family to say their goodbyes. But with their help, I beat it with only losing some of my leg.
But at this time, I have 5 Tarantulas and one jumping spider
When I lived and worked in VA I discovered my workplace was full of widows. Then I moved to SE Nebraska where I immediately found out my house (theirs?) had recluses. I freaked! At this point I was still a major arachnophobe. The first one I found trapped in my kitchen sink I torched...and then I felt bad and called myself a hypocrite. I breed and keep snakes and make it a point to try to teach people that snakes are not the scary evil beings everyone thinks. So I started researching and realized that, while it still existed, my chance of being bitten was probably pretty darn low. The next one I caught in the kitchen sink and took it outside, placing it behind my shed. Since that time my fear of 8 legged beasties has subsided and I now keep Ts. Great video!
Every spider on this list should’ve been from the Atracidae family, which is the family that Atrax robustus (Sydney Funnelweb) belongs to. There are around 40 scientifically described species with many more still yet to be described.
Only six species of this family have caused severe injuries to humans, and one of these six species (Hadronyche macquariensis), has been responsible for only one case of severe envenomation out of 6 reported bites, and the victim was a six-year-old child.
Would be boring if they were all basically the same though, wouldn't it?
I guess most venomous and most dangerous are two different things, a lot of the venom in Hadronyche are comparable to each other, though some species live in more remote areas and are less likely to encounter people, therefore we don’t have the data.
Living in the suburbs of Melbourne Australia, I could easily go outside and find 15 or 20 Redback spiders in my backyard. But I won't. They're quite reclusive and for all practical purposes harmless, ive certainly never had one inside the house. That I know of lol.
It's so funny to think that some of these incredibly venomous spiders are still so ridiculously cute. I love them so much haha
Sydney Funnel Webs take a half hour to kill a human. Brazilian Wandering takes an hour and a half, but anti venom is not easily accessible in Brazil, as in Australia. Not sure why sand spider is rated #1.
First, he said it's for edutainment, not a published sciebtific paper, and you're wrong about how fast these spiders kill, because they don kill that fast.
Sydney Funnel web spider will not kill someone in a half hour, unless you're a very little child, according to "IPCS INCHEM home" most children died in one to two hours (those younger than 12 years old may die in 4 hours), adults usually died in eleven hours to three days, with the slowest death in six days.
The brazilian wandering spider will not kill someone in an hour and a half, the fastest death caused by a wandering spider in a health adult was in six hours, and two hours in an adult with cardiac problems, and the fastest death was in 30 minutes, of a 10-year old child, so no.
The time of death will not show you how toxic an animal is, the amount of venom needed to cause death is what matters, for example, Loxosceles produces only 4 microliters of venom, and the amount of venom injected is less than 4 microliters, they are still responsible for more deaths than any other spider. The species responsible for most of the severe envenomations and deaths are Loxosceles laeta, intermedia, gaucho, in Brazil, from 2017 to 2021, they were responsible for 45 deaths, which is more than the wandering spider, which caused 12 deaths, let's look how much venom they inject: Loxosceles laeta and Loxosceles rufipes, which are the most dangerous in Peru, inject only 0.5 to 1.0 microliters of venom, and the death rate in Peru is 18% for those over 13 years old and 50% for those under 13 years old.
In Chile, the chilean recluse was responsible for a severe systemic envenomation rate of 18.8% and mortality rate of 19.1%, so based on their very low venom yield, and the fact that they kill more than any other spider, they are considered the most venomous spiders in South America and possibly the most venomous in the world along to the sand spiders.
No ANTIVENOM. Oh, and anectdotally, 100% fatality rate.
@@Sunspot232 there are only two deadly spiders in the world:
1. Sydney Funnel Web
2. Brazilian Wandering Spider
All others is pure hogwash
@@asmrcritique6565 @asmrcritique6565 Aparently, you didn't read carefully what I wrote, wandering spiders and funnel-webs are not the "deadliest" spiders. The terms "deadliest" "most dangerous" and "most venomous" aren't the same thing. The term deadly refers to how many human fatalities that species is responsible for, and the Sydney funnel web was responsible for only 13 deaths, and since 1980, no one has died from its bite. South American recluse spiders are responsible for more deaths than any other spider, in Brazil alone, from 2017 to 2021 there were 45 deaths by recluse spiders, especially Loxosceles laeta, loxosceles intermedia and Loxosceles gaucho. In Peru, they have a mortality rate of 18% for those over 13 years old and 50% for those under 13 years old. In Chile, the chilean recluse has a mortality rate of 19.1%. These spiders produce only 4 microliters of venom (and injects about 0.5 to 1.0 microliters, and even with very small amounts of venom, they are responsible for more deaths than both wandering spiders and Sydney funnel-webs, can a funnel-web kill a human injecting only 0.5-1.0 microliters? No, they can't, they Will no kill in 30 minutes, I explained before (I also added sources) that prove that Syndey funnel-web spiders do not kill that fast, you Just ignored what I wrote, reread my comment above carefully.🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Also, there is not an official "most venomous spider", South American recluse spiders might be the most venomous along with sand spiders, especially african sand spiders, based on their very small amounts of venom, and the fact that they are responsible for more deaths than any other spider, South American recluse spiders (including Loxosceles laeta) are the only spiders with a mortality rate comparable to that of a scorpion, like it or not.
I’m a locator and had a coworker bitten by a brown recluse. He didn’t think anything of it until the necrosis. He ended up having to get reconstruction surgery on the tendons in his hand
They hurt and I got a little nauseous, but it wasn't until the skin and muscle around the bite started dying that I realized that the brown spider that crawled up my pant leg was a brown recluse. It also triggered an autoimmune reaction, that hasn't stopped after 4 years.
Brazilian wandering is commonly seen around here where I live (in the state of São Paulo). It is easily found near waterfalls, although I've never seen a big one.
It probably was a different spicies
I have two Brazilian wandering spiders in terrariums at my backyard. I feed them with crickets, roachs, and small crabs and dragonflies I catch in the nearby manguezal.
Great video. Being from Virginia and now in W.V. for a decade, we are outside a lot and have encountered many questionable friends over the years. The wolf spider, brown recluse, and black widow have creeped me out since I was a kid. The venom obviously no one wants a part of. Idk what kind got me in the sleep one night camping but man that bite left a scar and hurt like hell for awhile.
Yet I love tarantulas, scorpions, and whatnot... But not the unwelcomed kisses in the wild while I'm sleeping I could do without.
A 19 year old man was killed by a red back bite a few years ago. He was bitten on the neck while going through bushes. Not sure how this was determined as it happened at night but it’s likely Australian medical personnel have significant experience at recognising these bites. Most victims get treated and sent home with minor effects.
I would love to see a video about English spiders, there doesn't seem to be any with such great videos like yours mate 👍
We have such a fantastic array of Species over here!
Granted non are dangerous or pose a medically significant threat to us, but the vast variety we have is amazing!
We do have a good few but most are really hard to find like the green huntsman spider it's tiny same with our jumping spiders and ladybird spiders shame that we have no tarantulas tho
@@h3ntaihunt3r we have one mygalomorph (same family as Tarantulas) it's called the purse web spider(Atypus affinis)
It's pretty but cute.
Tends to live on the side hills.
Second this! Extra points if Rich includes the Green fang / tube Web. Have some in my garden every year and I've been trying to catch one with no luck so far 😂
I live in Australia, and Huntsmen spiders are common here. I jarred one as big as my hand last night, as a saw it through my peripheral vision, on the way to the fridge.
They are a cold weather spider. And I let it go outside. Funnel webs are simply frightening, especially the deadly male. Always give my shoes a good shake in the humid months.
I am LIVING for this video!!!! I must say, I had a wolf spider in the house a couple of weeks ago that was bigger than 2"!!! I have videos and pics but omg it took me an hour to get her out of the house because I was so terrified LOL When I first saw her in the corner I SWEAR I immediately thought one of the T's got out, somehow, because she was so big! We get big spiders out here in the country, especially wolfs, but I've NEVER seen one this big. It was incredible. I wish I was a little less scared of her so I could have gotten some better footage but she was too damn fast for me to mess with too much. GREAT video! I absolutely love any of the educational vids!
Okefenokee fishing spiders can get like, 4" plus in legspan. Had one camping out (ha ha) in my kayak as a kid once and I think it sparked my fascination with spiders
@@dragonwithamonocle fishing spiders are one of my favs! They’re so fascinating yet terrifying 😂
I live on the gulf coast. My mother and a friend had to be hospitalized due to a brown recluse bite. Be careful .they are usually hiding in clothes and bedding that hasn't been disturbed for awhile
I was bitten by a brown recluse when I lived near Chicago in an apartment. I treated it myself by removing the dead tissue 1 inch deep and a half an inch across. Dumped alcohol in the wound and kept it clean, 15 years later I got a circular scar that looks like I got shot in the leg.
Spiders are so beautiful.
Had a widow get in my shirt while clearing brush on my property. It zinged me 3 times on the shoulder before I could get the chainsaw out of my hand.
Called my doc, and he told me to keep in touch with him, and keep an eye out for necrosis. Had a couple days of feeling like crap, stomach cramps and body pain. Don’t recommend it, but I’m still here. Can still see marks 2 years later.
As an Australian, I'm more fearful of white tailed spiders over redbacks and funnel webs.
My mum still suffers from a white tailed spider bite over 30 years later.
Thing about SFW is that they live where are loads of people and they have a reputation for being very bad tempered. They'll rear up defensively when approached and charge. The big females have inch long fangs that'll punch thru a glove. So definitely wouldn't want to piss one off
Is P. metallica really the most venomous tarantula? I mean i know all pokies have strong venom but I always have heard that H. macs and S. cals have the worst bites
I’ve heard that too (featherleg)
Once I almost touched a Brazilian wandering spider at my house. It was night when I went to the kitchen and turned on the switch of the light, it was right bellow the switch. I almost die from the panic but fortunately did not been bited. I know it was Brazilian wandering spider because here where I live in the south of Brazil, there are only two species of big spiders unless tarantulas: wandering spider and wolf spider but wolf spider does not climb walls.
Let me say that I did not expect yellow sacs to make this list. They are everywhere here in Ohio and I always have a run of them inside once fall comes around. They hurt when they bite and they do leave a nasty reminder, but I would not expect them to be top 10.
From the research I did I was looking at venom potency, not so much at the amount of venom that is actually injected. So I think they might be one of the many spiders o. The list and in nature that has a strong venom, but doesn't or can't enough in to a human yo really do major damage in most cases.
Love the channel very informative although your list is very debatable i still see you have done your research on each species.
Great video as always. I had no idea that yellow sac spiders would make it on the list. There are a bunch in my house. I actually recently just caught one in a cup and have been keeping it. Just fed it today, and it was quite neat to see it hunt and catch its prey while suspended from the top of the enclosure. I have a new found appreciation of them.
They're cool little spiders for sure and rarely ever bite humans. But supposedly they do have some pretty potent venom. But like a lot of spiders on this list, the venom might be potent, but they cant/wont/don't inject enough from a bite to really be of much harm to humans. Plus it is always fun to add an unexpected species on lists like this just to rile up the trolls...lol
used to live in rural Alberta and one year opened the closet to get the winter sweaters out only to find a very well-fed northern widow had made her home there and whoops it was a handling neither of us expected!
Surprised you were aware of the Six Eyed Sand Spider, but by the time I got to number 2, I had a feeling it would be number 1. I had quite a few of these over the years. I read that they think the venom could be as potent as a Puff Adder, which I also had.
I didn't think wolf spiders would be on this list, I've been bitten by so many and it just itches for a few days. When I was a kid a funnel web wolf spider made a web in a bag of nails in the garage, my brother and I named her Misses Wolf, we fed her and hung out with her for months and she was basically a pet.
I didn't realize wolf spiders were venomous enough to be on this list lol. I live an area where there's a whole bunch and have picked up a few with them showing no fuss or aggression.
Those arent wolf spiders. Garden spiders look like wolf spiders but are different. Garden spiders are not aggressive. Wolf spiders are. I see both on a daily basis bc Im a wildlife photographer. Ppl mistake wolf spiders w common garden spiders all the time. Wolf spiders are more likely to go after your hand if you put it down next to it. Garden spiders usually wont care.
I had one chase my hand around on a cardboard box before dumping a daddy long leg onto the box. The wolf spider turned its attention to the long leg and literally tore off all its legs before just leaving.
Just as an information: black widow spiders are also known to be present in Italy. Altough, as an italian, I can tell you I've never seen one. So, as I've never seen one in 40 years, I suppose I can say they are pretty rare. Maybe, they live in hotter places (I live in northern Italy, in winter we easily freeze below -10C°)
SUPER THANKS! Curious how this would show up in the comments!
I remember on one of your videos, you had stated that you cant bond with your tarantula among a few others However i know someone who had one and it really did know who his owner is, he would give him his paw when he asksd him it was amazing
Just found this channel and glad to see 2 Aussie species on the list. We had a female red back for 11 years and she would lay eggs every year and we used to remove them except one time. We got home and had over 100 baby spiders crawling and spinning webs all over the cabinet she was kept on. I also had a female funnel web and used to feed her cockroaches. I would stir her up with a stick and like in the pic you could see venom dripping off her fangs, then I would throw the food in and watch her attack. I heard Atrax robustus females can live for 20 years. I also had a male but he died not long after I caught him. When I used to look for reptiles I only ever found one male, but lots of females.
Kudos to including the brown widow and six-eyed sand spider, which are often overlooked in these kind of lists. The danger of wolf spiders and yellow sac spiders is highly exaggerated and would be put to shame by others not on the list you have quoted, e.g., Australian mouse spider.
Hi there! Good video emphasising that whilst they can be harmful they rarely are. I just want to point out that the group of spiders atrax robustus is from contains around 30+ species and there's evidence that some are more venomous than atrax robustus like hadronyche formidabilis.
Yes im from Australia 😉
Very true - tree dwelling funnelweb!
I take it the P. metallica was used as a stand in for tarantulas in general?
The wolf spider bite doesn't hold a candle to any of the OW species and multiple of the NW species of tarantulas.
Wolf spiders.. creepy? Na man, they are beautiful, their verious colors & markings, those 2 big eyes, on the front of their 'face'♥️. They're one of my favorites! Being Australian, I can honestly say, the Funnel Web can be considered creepy🕷️
Redbacks are everywhere over here! They live in amunst us humans!
I used to pick them up as a kid, LOL.
It's incredible how these creatures can often be so frightening and so fascinating at once
It’s like that with most things in nature.
G'day from Australia🙃,
I don't know if you have seen it but there is a YT video called "The Making of Antivenom - A Seqirus Story" on the CSL Seqirus channel which is a history of Australia's Anti-Venom,
I was born at Gosford on the NSW Central Coast next to Wyoming which is where the original Australian Reptile Park was located, they are now located at Somersby closer to Australia's main highway & it was created by Mr. Eric Worrel & his family to educate & provide venom for our Anti-Venom program.
ARP has grown so much to now include Aussie Ark which is a Native Fauna Conservation helping to save our endangered species which has breeding programs & now enough land further north at Barrington Tops located on the Great Dividing Range in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales to provide them with a "Natural Bushland Ferral Free Home"
Absolutely brilliant video Richard, always enjoy those type of videos.
When i was a young lad of 17 i saw a indian oramental for sale for pretty cheap with the glass tank , when i asked the shop why the T was so cheap they told me it had put it pervious owner in a comma for 3 weeks when it bit him. I did buy the tarantula after i had a ton of qeustions chucked at me about tarantulas and there care ect and after they asked me what experiance i had with keeping Tarantulas never had the promblem with the T but i was always mindful where the tarantula was when having to open the tank and i never ever tryed picking him up and also treated him with respect.
Where I am we could find 200+ red back spiders nesting. It is summer and they are hiding under outdoor furniture, in sheds, anywhere dark and dirty, these guys love debris. However, they are never found in clothes or shoes.
I was bitten by a yellow sac spider. I felt flu-ish for a couple days and my finger developed an itchy bump that turned purple and then made a pock. It was on a pair of jeans I was pulling out of a shelf to wear, and I thought I had a ball of lint on them. Nope! It was that. I didn’t know what it was- took it in a baggie to the ER and then kept it in the baggie taking it with me places, showing people “my spider”. This was before UA-cam so I bought a magnifying glass and drew its eye pattern and figured out what it was.
Curious- why the yellow sac and not the Hobo? Aren’t they pretty nasty??
I remember the last person in Australia to die from a funnel web spider bite in 1980 was a little boy aged 2 years old. I was 11 years old and remember it vividly. I grew up in Sydney and have never seen one outside of a zoo. I would visit a friend in the Blue Mountains area and she would be very insistent that you always check your shoes before putting them on.
I have donated at least 10 funnel webs to the antivenom people. They are very common. Mostly males that wander looking for females between the months of November through to May
Missing the Northern Tree Dwelling Funnel Web. It's cousin in Sydney gets all the notoriety; but this one is even more toxic
Always nice to see your video after a long day at work man. I’ve got three tarantulas thanks to your videos. I’ve got the green bottle blue, the versicolor and the curly hair. They are such interesting and fascinating creatures.
the funnel web's range is from southern NSW to North Queensland. Their habitats vary accordingly. They've found a subspecies that lives in the sand dunes of Fraser Island (the largest sand island in the world) and others in the tropical rainforests of the north. Sydney got the notoriety because of that crossover ie their habitat in a big city. The reason their is a anti-venene. People were dying and money was spent on research to find the anti-venene.
A species of Funnel Web also resides in the Adelaide hills.
@@nickbradbury347 There's a Southern Tree Funnel Web which stretches well into South Eastern Australia.
It's the location the Sydney version haunts that is the biggest drama, the Northern and Southern Tree Funnel Webs are both more venomous but less likely to be encountered.
Just to put a slight dampener on things - Funnel web spiders exist all over Australia. The deadly one is known as the Sydney Funnel Web (Atrax Robustus) and is responsible for several deaths - the most infamous being a young woman who was seven months pregnant. The Sydney Funnel Web exists essentially on Sydney's North shore and as far west as Lithgow and north to the Hawkesbury River. I have never seen a Sydney Funnel Web in the wild but did find other types of Funnel Webs when working inland from Mackay in Queensland many years ago. We were wondering what all these small round holes were that suddenly began to appear in the ground. Using a knife, we dug down and discovered the funnel web about 10 cm underground. Given this knowledge we kept our eyes on the other holes and were glad we were wearing heavy workboots.
Hello Sum Wun - I stand by what I have written. I will also add that the funnel web spider is a sub group of myglamorph group of spiders which includes the trap-door and tarantula spiders. One extra thing to note - the funnel web is not one spider but is made up of several types(species) of spider and various species of the funnel spider exist in various parts of Australia - their existence spreads beyond NSW and Queensland. As for your comment that a lot of myglamorphs look like funnel web spiders - this is, of course, true and also applies to many other spiders - huntsman spiders are often confused with Tarantulas. Further - Adelaide is not Eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea is not part of Australia. As for the rest of your comments I suggest you refrain from demonstrating your own ignorance.
@@ianraper4304 Hi Ian. In your opinion what effect would the NSW flooding have on these guys. Do you think they'll be forced into areas where you wouldn't normally find them.
As a residential electrician, I will never forget the time I shined my headlamp onto a brown recluse while running wire underneath a house in the crawl space. After running that line I got out to put duct tape around my wrists and ankles to seal my clothing 🥲
Thanks again! Keep up the amazing work!
AWESOME! Thanks for the SUPER THANKS! Glad you enjoyed the video!
As an Aussie, I have to completely disagree with the point that Redbacks are not aggressive. Those things are pure evil and they are well known to bite and try to kill absolutely anything that comes near them.
Out of curiosity why do you never plan or want to own the funnel web spider? I’ve seen all your videos and you own true spiders with high venom such as the banana spider, so what Is it about these species?
from everything I have heard, they are very defensive, more apt to try and bite you, and bite multiple times to ensure envenomation. And they don't have their antivenim in the US, that is mostly on hand in Australia where they can be found in the wild.
I know there are a few genus like Macrothele and others you can get in the states, but Atrax sp are all from AUS and as far as i know you cannot import any animals from Australia
@@chrissears5482 I’ve heard that too- I haven’t seen anyone w an Australian Funnel Web except Australians- I’ve seen some with Japanese Funnel Webs, which are still pretty feisty. I was curious about Richard’s list, because besides the Hobo spider (pacific NW), I feel like several of the Australian spiders were missing (mouse spider, the “Whistling” tarantula) that I’ve heard can be pretty bad
@@tarantulacollective Even in Australia with subsidised medicine the cost of each antivenom treatment is probably a 5 figure sum. It would get pretty expensive regularly replacing your safety net as it goes out of expiry date.
Cheaper to come over here and play with them.
A young boy did die a few years ago after being bitten on the neck by a redback spider.
I live in country Australia.
I bought a funnel web. Females live for like 15 years and are less venomous than the males so I was like yeah, I'll get a sheila.
Well turns out the one that was sold to me was a mature male, he was extremely defensive too. Bitten by a female in South Australia, I may have a chance to be flown to Sydney in time for antivenom, being bitten by a male? Yeah nah, fucked.
I managed to find somebody in Sydney and managed to get him there in return for 4 spiderlings in the hopes at least 1 would be female and any males would be sent back.
Unfortunately I was living somewhere with no air-conditioning and we had a summer where it got to 50c (I think 122f) and they passed away.
Yeah nah, no more funnel webs for me. Now I just keep whatever I find locally like badumnas and redbacks and shit.
Though venomous, redbacks just chill in their webs like 99% of the time and are super low maintenance.
The second deadliest spider I've had in my possession is a red-headed mouse spider I got in my freezer for future resin work. They even look as dangerous as they are, very beautiful spiders.
I've got four beautiful Badumnas living around my kitchen window. They've been there for quite a long while and do a marvellous job of keeping the bl**dy flies down. Window looks a bit funky (think 'Addams Family'), but the girls are all happy and growing really, really big, what with the great diet they're getting (sandflies, house flies and German cockroaches). They're very modest and prefer to hang out inside the funnel-shaped webs which they knat across each corner of the window. They come out mostly at night and just as the sun comes up.
Arabella, Beatrix, Candace and Daphne all send their best regards to spider lovers everywhere! :)
Oh my goodness! A tarantula is lurking while every human gets into the R.E.M cycle.
Just found your channel, I like your enthusiasm.
I've been bitten by Huntsman, Redback, Wolf and Northern Tree-Dwelling Funnel Web spiders, all but the Redback were dry bites thankfully, although the Funnel Web was by far the most painful and I still have two tiny scars from those fangs 30 years later. Maybe you could include this bad boy in one of your vids. And yes, I'm Australian.
Consider me subscribed.
How did you got bitten so much? :( I am sorry for the pain
Alright Richard, I'm getting a little jealous. Where are you getting these dope Tarantula Cribs shirts. I'm on their website all the time and just find their basic shirts. Great video. Love the content no matter what it's on. Learning new things is always great. Keep it up. Blessings from Colorado 🤙
I dont know. He just sends them to me. I assumed they were for sale on his website
@@tarantulacollective I wish. All that's ever on his site it the basic white and black or the iridescent logo one 🤔 lol
Ok, I take it back. Seems they have added that one Golden blue leg baboon shirt lol. But still.... you have some awesome Tarantula Cribs gear 🤘
@@mre912 they definitely keep me stocked up. Also, they know I pretty much only wear jeans and black tshirts...so sending me black shirts like that is like free advertising bc I can't resist the urge to wear them...lol. tarantulas AND black tshirts....I'm a suckered for them.
@@tarantulacollective 😎👍
Nice vid, interested to know where you rate the mouse spiders from here in Australia, there seems to be conflicting views on the potency of their venom
I give you props just for correctly using venomous! Thank you!
The Wandering Spider is still definitely the 2nd most dangerous and deadliest for obvious and self explanatory reasons. Sydney Funnel Web being the first because of more frequent bites and bite rates.
As you mentioned you would have to go out of your way to get bitten by a Sand Spider as compared to the ones literally known as Banana spiders which arrive in shipments and such. Also the fact that they can pop up far more frequently and there have been much more bites than the extremely rare Sand Spider cases.
According to statistics, over 4000 people are treated annually for Brazilian Wandering Spider bites compared to 40-50 bites from Sydney Funnel Webs. Severe envenomation only occurs in 1/200 bites from the BWS, and 4/20 from the SFW. So you're correct in saying that SFW is the more dangerous of the 2, but you're far more likely to be bitten by a BWS.
Black Widow Spiders are super pretty. I have only seen one up close in the wild when i was little but it's beautiful black shine and crazy bright red spotting. Not that I am scared of spiders but I am more worried of Wolf Spiders than i am Black Widow oddly enough.
The brown recluse are quite prominent in the southern midwest US. I've seen scores of them, or their evidence on my nephews ranch in NW Arkansas. One thing about them, they are exo-skeletal. You're more likely to find their abandoned skeletons in paper, cardboard boxes and wood piles than anywhere else. Yes, they will flee form you. I feared them until I found/discovered any number of them on the ranch. Afterward, using normal precautions I've had no problems... just be careful where you put your hands and fingers.
Honestly seeing a spider in your house isn't really a problem. Its when it dissappears.
And once again, I've learned something. Thanks Richard, love the content!
You can go to the Australian Reptile park in the morning and they do a show on milking their Funnel Web Spiders to make anti venom.
I tell ya, As Sydney person. I'm more afraid of a white tail spider, as everyone I know who has copped a bite ended up with long term complications. We had Funnel web at home. it was the 90's wasn't a surprise. The Spider place they make the anti venom. They took it away. But Funny about the red back, I got like 12 or more living around one of my cars. I just keep an eye out for them when I bother to turn over the engines. But it's always the females you find and the egg sacks.
I like most as they eat the other pest and insects but just wish they would not decide to live in my car mirror housings
Great video as always!! Yo you need to do video just like this but about scorpions, and maybe explain the LD:50 scale and how it works!! There’s tons of people that don’t understand it and how it works and how the potency of scorpion venom works!!