The comment about you having many years experience as a “fucking idiot” had me cracking up! I love your humor and your knowledge! Thank you for your amazing channel!😊
@@nstar7877 Why? Rules for me not for thee? If I was the hospital I'd charge you for wasting the air in my hospital. I think that should be about $5-10k a breath I think. Don't make subjective posts with things like that. That's literally living or dying. I've had a dinner plate sized Therophosa stirmi walk on my hand and up my arm and all down my chest. Did it bother me? Not a bit. Spiders are not out to get you unless you antagonize. Spiders are truly a FAFO species. This guy is not agitating that Funnel Web at all. It has no reason to waste it's venom.
@@apresmoa im Australian and in Australia too AND I know how to use google "It can take up to 140 milkings to create a single $1000 vial of anti-venom to treat a funnel web bite" "The antidote saved a 10-year-old NSW who was bitten on the finger back in 2017 but he needed a record-breaking 12 vials." So... thats $12k right there. So...Depending on the level of envenomation.. whats it going to cost roughly you reckon ?
Much appreciated! Tolkien's work has been a big influence on my writing style for ages, but it was a while before I decided to incorporate that same prose in my videos as well.
Loved this one! the way you eloquently describe these wonderful creatures is contagious, even the most diehard of arachnophobes would be hard pressed to not be interested throughout. glad you were able to get some of australia’s most iconic spiders on camera :)
Every window of my current dwelling has a jumping spider of some variation in residence. No need for fly spray just let the spider fam do their work. 😘🕷
I mean he keeps a number of funnel webs at home in captivity so I reckon he's probably very experienced with reading their body language. They do tend to make some very obvious threat poses when aggravated.
Yeah that’s a big thing with funnel-webs; their body language is extremely obvious and easy to read, so they’re very predictable spiders. Meanwhile, I’ve never handled a redback because their “warning signs” are a lot more subtle.
I realise this won't help your cause, but the one and only encounter I've had with a male Sydney Funnel Web wasn't nearly as relaxed as yours. The fella I accidentally disturbed while gardening was chock full of angry pills and reared up at me in a most alarming fashion, those massive fangs front and centre. I backed away slowly, apologising profusely the entire time. Luckily he and I were both able to continue unharmed without further contact. He settled down and went back to his wanderings, and I went inside for a stiff drink, very grateful that the rest of my day would be spent on my couch and not the emergency department of my local hospital.
Some are definitely more defensive than others. Seen a bunch of funnel-webs of multiple different species, and they range from mild to wild. Always pretty manageable spiders though.
Never seen a spider get out of its way to go after someone probably cause natural selection claimed the ones that would long time ago lol. That being said in my experience if you accidentally disturb one that threat posture can be very intimidating but of course right move is to apologise like “sorry little one didn’t see you there, I shall now continue on my way pay me no mind and have a good continuation of your business respectfully” as a gentle man should. I actually have quite a few spiders in my apparentement, they don’t pay rent but they eat my mosquitoes on summer so… unfortunately they a bit too small to get flies so I still have to do it myself, I did gift them one hoping I’d encourage an new understanding but so far no luck there… I have hope that negotiations are still on the table next summer tho.
Spiders are fascinating creatures love your passion for them, people think I am weird cause I get upset when people kill them even though I am scared of them but I don't like seeing any animals get hurt
Nice work man. That was very interesting watching that male funnel web on your hand. They are a whole lot bigger than I had thought. And calmer, although I think the bravest thing you did was have those Slugs on your hand. It looked like a hand full of moving snot. Cheers, Kevin.
A regrettably inconsistent schedule will do that. Plus, even though I’ve been doing UA-cam for years, it took me a long while to find my “style” so to speak.
Nah dude. You don’t fuck with funnel webs. Even the expert handlers at the reptile park know better then to let a funnel web crawl over them. That’s just a really really stupid risk to take. Why don’t you go down the beach and grab a blue ring while you’re at it. Ffs man, I know you’re young and feel invincible but don’t be so silly.
It's a pretty common trend nowadays to see Spider UA-camrs handle and even take bites from Spiders But he has a good excuse to do so. People handle Highly Venemous Snakes, they're called Professional Snake Catchers. Now obviously they have the tools to do so, but it's still risky business.
What a moronic statement 🙁 you almost had me until you compared it to a blue ring… it’s like comparing a sling shot to a nuke… still time to delete your comment lol
I highly doubt he is a moron and doesn’t have anti venom on hand just in case and I think you highly over estimate how venomous it actually is but yeah of course you never safe from an allergic reaction but then again you’d have bigger problems then. To compare it to a blue ring octopus tho like op did that’s just beyond ignorant. Tetrodoxin has no anti venom if you get bitten by one it’s guaranteed fatality and pretty quick as your nervous system shuts down very quickly ending with your lungs and heart. No one who knows anything about wildlife and Australia would get near one. Also can’t compare their venom to snake venom cause one the toxicity is no where near the same and even if it were you aren’t receiving nearly the same dose, most spiders aren’t medically relevant because they small and don’t inject a lot of venom and since you are a big ape the effective dose for most spider venoms would require you to get bitten by a lot of spiders in a short time… one spider may be unpleasant but it won’t be fatal or drastic and there’s anti venom should you happen to have a bad reaction… Only a handful of spiders are toxic enough that a small dose would be a lot of trouble but snake that’s different cause bigger animal so even a less toxic snake would be a problem cause you’d get 10x the dose. Take a king cobra for example that not a very toxic snake but they inject you but with a buttload of venom and enough to start a clock. Blue ring octopus and dart frogs have tetrodotoxin which even the slightest dose would kill you and there’s no antivenom. Cone snails for example have a random cocktail of toxins so no antivenom and every snail is a bit different so you may live or you may meet your god in the next hour or so… had this been a necrotoxin we’d have a different conversation because even if you live, with an effective dose 50/50 you losing that limb. All this to say it radically depends on the toxicity and dosage which in the case of this spider is rather low compared to all the animals you comparing to especially blue ring octopus which is a nuke in that department.
This video was absolutely magnificent! I have a strange fascination with spiders and always have, accompanied by a slight fear. Even Morgoth was afraid of Ungoliant. A Phidipus Audax lived in my window for an entire summer/autumn period. I fell in love with that thing and called it Harry. She was amazing and fascinating and quicker than lightning. I know, generally, where the big spiders live in my basement and I leave them alone. They leave piles of insect husks here and there in their secret places. I appreciate that. Great video! Keep up supporting spiders! It's a tough job.
I think this one might be my favourite of the outdoor adventures (Although Kuranda really makes that choice difficult). Even though you’ve handled Hadronyche versuta before, seeing Atrax robustus is just different. Looks like you guys had a ton of fun! Also I would’ve said in the name of Melkor personally but I guess he’s been in the void for a while.
Kuranda, to me, was a lot of lost potential. I could’ve gotten so much more footage out of that trip had I not been so impulsive with my filming. I kept running from animal to animal, and ended up with very little to work with for each species. I think Nephila pilipes was the only animal I spent enough time with to get a decent segment out of.
Great video, as always. You have a great way of describing things and your videos are always super relaxing and nice. Seriously brave of you to handle the funnel web. It's a seriously nasty looking spider.
I never thought I'd see anyone actually handle a funnel-web spider! I 'know' that they only fang larger animals (including humans) as a last resort, but I'd have thought that a funnel-web would become defensive if handled, particularly as you were waving your hand around in front of it a moment earlier. The most dangerous arthropods I've handled were bull ants. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else try that, though. Bull ants are curious, but temperamental.
Temperament does vary; I’ve seen some that were similarly chill, and others that would threat pose at the slightest disturbance. Most would be somewhere in between.
You got balls of steel...and while I have no qualms of handling spiders...you handled a spider with the temperament of 'i kill you.' Or as you said...'being a fucking idiot.' Hats off to you for being willing to handle the SFW. Don't think I would ever do that myself.
10:28 But I am a &$%(ing idiot... 🤣Didn't expect that, but I can appreciate it. I love seeing these Australian arachnids. Some of which are incredible beautiful!
Have you ever handled a North Coast tree funnelweb? They are at least half again as big as this bloke and probably nearly as venomous. And, though I realize it is de riguer to give UA-cam videos the most sensational title possible, for the sake of accuracy it should have been titled as the most VENOMOUS spider in Oz, as it doesn't actually kill anyone anymore. That being said, in the 1950s, when I was a little tacker, a local boy in Lane Cove, Sydney, while on a Scout Camp in Kuringai Chase, pulled on his boot one morning and was bit by one of these things. Unfortunately, he expired after about three days, so they can kill, potentially. The first time the antinvenom was used was when a fairly young boy in Bellingen Shire (where I now reside) was bitten on the head when he put on his bicycle helmet. He was helicoptered to the Coffs Harbour Hospital where there was a supply of the life saving liquid and was all Ok after a day or two. I used to catch them in a peanut butter jar on building sites where I worked around Sydney's north shore and take em in to the museum. People say they jump at you and attack and other nonsense but like a red-back only bite if actually squeezed or pressured in some way. They do stand up on their hind legs and display those wicked fangs though. Bigger fangs that some very dangerous Aussie snakes. It's funny how overseas people, fed on sensational wildlife documentaries, think that something is going to bite or attack them as soon as they get off the plane in Australia, though they would happily go to places where far more people are killed by wildlife, like Africa, or India, or anywhere in SE Asia or South America.
Also they go on about our marine animals without realising that basically everywhere in the Indo-Pacific has box jellyfish, stonefish and blue ring octopus.
I learned recently that statistically the most dangerous animal in Australia is actually the horse. Yeah. Far more people suffer debilitating injuries and/or are accidentally killed by horses than all the other wildlife combined. Go figure. I've had an encounter with a male Sydney Funnel web, I accidentally disturbed him when gardening. He reared up at me and those massive fangs were front and centre but he didn't bite me luckily. I backed away and went inside for a stiff drink. I've also seen lots of red-bellied black snakes and eastern browns, never had any trouble at all. Leave them be and you're in no danger at all. I grew up and lived for years in a part of the lower Blue Mountains which was mostly bush land and national park. I live in Woolgoolga now, so we're kind of neighbours. Cheers.
@@woopimagpie Yes I know. I handled many horses over 20 some years and got several broken bones, many bruises and had many potentially fatal near misses from kicks, falls etc. I spent many years bushwalking and working in the bush,, and never had any real threats. Seen plenty of snakes and spiders but as you say, just left them alone. Practice a bit of simple caution and you'll be right.
Never seen a northern tree funnel-web yet, though they’re high on my list of targets. I have handled other funnel-webs before this one, including Hadronyche infensa, Hadronyche versuta and an undescribed Atrax species.
Not too many honestly; she bolted when I first moved the bark she was under, but chilled out fairly soon after that. H. immanis is probably the most bolty Holconia species I’ve worked with too - the rest seem more laid back on average.
Wow. I gotta say. While they are an odd looking spider. They are oddly beautiful to me. I think its just the way their legs are but i just love that look. Keep uto the good work!
What a theatrical voice presentation style! Egads! So, the FW spider seemed content to just wander about on the hand and arm... Is it the case that they would most likely bite when one has them in a "crushing embrace"? Perhaps accidentally putting hand or arm on them with some pressure, or, feeling one crawling up one's leg, unthinkingly, swatting at the leg of one's pants?
I would presume you were close to Somersby Australia Reptile Park on the Central Coast where they milk and hence have Quantities of F/W anti Venom supplies. 😂
I am being very brave by watching this video as I am arachnophobic but I also adore some of these little guys and love learning about all the amazing creatures we have down here (still having to cover my screen whenever you show a huntsmen though)
Arachnaphobe here as well but I finally released the tension from my body at watching the funnel web when he showed the Huntsman. lol It was like seeing a friendly, bolty puppy compared to a trip the the ED.
new sub to this great channel❤. Not sure if you have done a video on the female mouse spider? Would love to see it. I see these every autumn and they are the reason I never leave boots outside. I am scared of every spider, even the harmless ones, but these gals do not look harmless. Biggest fangs I have ever seen in real life. They are not aggressive thankfully.
Have never yet had the chance to film a mouse spider; they are present around my area, but very cryptic and hard to notice. Definitely a target to keep in mind though!
When I was still in California, I saw one of these come into my room. It was a garage-turned-bedroom. The screen door had like 4 inches of space at the bottom and stuff could get in. The spider I saw was tarantula-sized, nearly the size of my previous rose hair. It took me years to figure out what that spider was. I didn't catch it.
@@BugsandBiology Yeah, I don't know what it was. It was at least 6 inches wide, had thick, black, smooth legs that looked metallic in their flawlessness, and an abdomen of a different texture.
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 Thank you so much for identifying the danger level of an animal you've never seen. You're the single greatest animal expert that's ever lived! I'm truly honored to have had the experience to bathe in your radiance.
@@ViirinSoftworks I know the basic mygalomorph families and know that only tarantulas can reach those sizes in the Northern Hemisphere. It was probably a common Aphonopelma. Are you pretending to be smart or something?
This funnel web was chilling just like a New World tarantula. I thought that males bite because they are territorial, not so much for defensive reasons. Also funny assassin bug moment.
Hi Jackson I love this video! I was listening to some Australian news and they said they discovered a new species of funnel web. I just wanted to know have you seen it yet?
Every Funnel-Web spider I meet wants to kill me. They rear up and say "come at me bro". The Sydney variety looks very docile. The Blue Mountains ones are easily triggered.
They do vary. I’ve kept very defensive Sydney funnel-webs, and very laid back Blue Mountains funnel-webs too. I will say the Blue Mountains funnel-web is a considerably more impressive looking spider.
Beautifully crafted piece 👏🏻 Where I Lived some time back, on the Central Coast (NSW) I would frequently find funnies in the downstairs shower in summer. They’d come in through our cat door then off for a drink and a cool off in the shower, lol. They were never aggressive, always well behaved fellows, sometimes I’d forget to check first, turn on the shower and I’d find the poor thing cowering in the corner behind the shampoo bottle. Needless to say I’d have to stop the proceedings, scoop her/him up into a plastic jug that was close by especially for that purpose and gently pop her/him outside from whence s/he came. Lived with all manner of spiders and found them all to be most agreeable little neighbours. Just loved your clip btw🤍 and is it just me, or does the little peacock spider look like he has a fleur de lis as an insignia on his back ? Susan@M.Lehane.👋🏻🇦🇺
Most spiders kind of don't want to get intimate with us, because we're much larger, potentially a threat and not prey. I like dragonflies, not just due to their iridescent bodies and wonderful compound eyes, but when they're around bothersome bush flies go away. The insect version of hawks, with their water born lavae as firece as the adults. People keep jumping spiders as pets.
How does wearing short sleeves and shorts work in Australia? Here in germany I'm always told to wear long pants and long sleeves to avoid ticks , mosquitos and stuff. How is it in Australia?
Those are red triangle slugs (Triboniophorus graeffei) which occur along much of Australia’s eastern coast. They can actually be found reasonably close to Canberra, but it’s toward the southern limit of their range. Super impressive creatures for sure!
@@BugsandBiology They certainly are! The biggest we get (at least in my garden) are the occasional tiger slugs - not quite as big. Even so, we mainly get old-fashioned (small) garden slugs, which I imagine are imported from some batch of European lettuces in the 1800s!
Up close and personal he says MG I had an epileptic fit because of a funnel web spider when I was four because of the fright as it was in front of the toilet and I was too little to put the light on but that night I jumped and jumped and jumped and I turned that light on if I hadn’t I would’ve been bitten by a big one…. One of the biggest funnel web I’ve ever seen possibly could’ve been a female as dad had Doug foundations for the back sunroom to be built….. no thank you sir. You’ve literally made my guts come up into my throat do flip-flops and go back down.😂😂😂
I got bit buy 8 different spiders in one week the most I got was a headache and felt a little bit sick for couple days I live in the lower hunter valley area all bites happened of a night time bush walking looking for yowies lol
Your ability to sound whimsical and Tolkien...ey is fused with beautiful whiplash of vulgarity, and the assassin bug comment made me roll my eyes like "cmon dude". And the "i' have experience being an idiot" is flipping beautiful. It is curious that even in books with experts behind them, the sydney funnel web is said to be at the very least 'ready to assume a defensive posture." Do you think people misconstrue that with being aggressive?
Keep up the good work Jackson . The more Myths that are debunked ,the more ignorant people will learn what is truth and what is clearly misinformation .
I think it's possibly the wandering you mentioned that the males do has given some people the impression that these spiders are aggressive. I gotta admit I'm glad they don't live on my side of the island.
what impresses me a little bit more is how you figured out the logistics of carrying those massive steel balls you got around to be able to search the wild. always learn a thing or 2 watching your vids, keep doing what you do man.
Everybody talks about our dangerous animals that can kill in a heartbeat, crocodiles, funnelled spiders, Eastern Taipan snake etc etc, but nobody and I mean nobody talks about the deadliest animal in the whole country and that animal is the......drop bear.....found predominantly in all tourist campsites. Imagine, you set up your tent, cook up a nice meal, have a few beers, talk about the big one that got away around a camp fire then you retire to your tent to have a well earned snooze and as you doze off into dreamworld a 30 pound drop bear lands on your tent and the terror of the camper cannot be imagined. These bears are well known here in Australia and are fearsome predators. I would recommend that any tourists planning on coming to Australia to do some camping, I highly recommend purchasing a motorcycle hard helmet for your own safety.😊
I’ve grown up around spiders yet they still make me uneasy, huntsman’s still definitely do, my mums 52 and she’s seen them alot yet still scared, so I don’t think that explanation quite explains it
It’s not a universal explanation - it’s an explanation for why I, personally, don’t find Australian spiders especially impressive. Plus, I’d seen plenty of photos/videos of much larger spiders from overseas, so the “Australia big spiders” thing never really landed with me.
6:29 the marking on his ophistosoma look like a small dancing insect :D the red bits are the first arms, lifted next to the head. like a dancing assassin bug or something
Nice video as usual but there's a newish UA-cam feature where it automatically dubs it with a TTS voice you have to turn off on a per-video basis - absolutely cumbersome for those of us who enjoy using UA-cam videos in different languages (it mutes the background music and ambient sounds too). If that's your decision, more power to you. But I understand it's being turned on by UA-cam unbeknownst to the creators now ...
Do you think Maisie's decision in fallen kingdom have any wait until dominion. I get it, if the dino ect clones deserve to die then the kid clone might as well too and we can't have that. But from a presumed conservationists perspective, was it the move they should have taken given the circumstances. In any case I always wished she wasn't so metaphorical about it. "their alive like me", WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Probably a mix. If they need to escape, they probably just jump wherever, so long as it gets them away. Meanwhile, if they’re hunting, they have to be a lot more precise.
If you don't mind... what do you use for your macros? It's amazing! I've been looking at Lumix models ever since I saw The Dark Den's macros. They nail image quality, and whatever you have also nails video macro quality.
I'm disappointed. I had always been led to believe that the deadliest and most feared spider in Australia was the 'dunny spider' that shot up your crack when you sat on the dunny. Ah well... you live and learn.
I love how formal and elegant your speech is and then the sudden drop into calling yourself a "fucking idiot"
The comment about you having many years experience as a “fucking idiot” had me cracking up! I love your humor and your knowledge! Thank you for your amazing channel!😊
Same. I didn't have that in my deck of cards today, but I'm glad someone played it. Had me wheezing.
Would he pay for the antivenom out of his own pocket if bitten ? If I was the hospital id charge him the $5000-10000
@@nstar7877 Why? Rules for me not for thee? If I was the hospital I'd charge you for wasting the air in my hospital. I think that should be about $5-10k a breath I think. Don't make subjective posts with things like that. That's literally living or dying. I've had a dinner plate sized Therophosa stirmi walk on my hand and up my arm and all down my chest. Did it bother me? Not a bit. Spiders are not out to get you unless you antagonize. Spiders are truly a FAFO species. This guy is not agitating that Funnel Web at all. It has no reason to waste it's venom.
@@nstar7877 He's in Australia. Why would he pay that much? 😭
@@apresmoa im Australian and in Australia too AND I know how to use google
"It can take up to 140 milkings to create a single $1000 vial of anti-venom to treat a funnel web bite"
"The antidote saved a 10-year-old NSW who was bitten on the finger back in 2017 but he needed a record-breaking 12 vials."
So... thats $12k right there.
So...Depending on the level of envenomation.. whats it going to cost roughly you reckon ?
The best narration ever. Sydney transformed into a Tolkienesque landscape with the best Aussie sass 😂. Love it!
Much appreciated! Tolkien's work has been a big influence on my writing style for ages, but it was a while before I decided to incorporate that same prose in my videos as well.
Loved this one! the way you eloquently describe these wonderful creatures is contagious, even the most diehard of arachnophobes would be hard pressed to not be interested throughout. glad you were able to get some of australia’s most iconic spiders on camera :)
Thanks! Really enjoyed writing the narrative for this one, though I do worry I got a little carried away describing the trees and flowers…
The next David Attenborough is right here. Seriously. ||We can say we saw him before he became famous like the hipsters we are./jk
@@BugsandBiologyit was extremely pleasant listening ☺️
Every window of my current dwelling has a jumping spider of some variation in residence. No need for fly spray just let the spider fam do their work. 😘🕷
Got Dang. A non AI OG content YT'er with a silky smooth voice that also teaches you while watching, sign me up!
Unfortunately AI does seem to be overwhelming UA-cam as of late…
Glad you enjoyed the video anyway!
You are very brave handling the Sydney funnel web. The peacock jumper though, what a cutie.
Or just really stupid. One wrong move and it's off to the hospital for a really bad time.
@@tabbi888 it has to be a reeeealy wrong move. Funnel-webs hate to bite, and even when they do it's almost always dry.
I mean he keeps a number of funnel webs at home in captivity so I reckon he's probably very experienced with reading their body language. They do tend to make some very obvious threat poses when aggravated.
Yeah that’s a big thing with funnel-webs; their body language is extremely obvious and easy to read, so they’re very predictable spiders.
Meanwhile, I’ve never handled a redback because their “warning signs” are a lot more subtle.
Putting the double ass in assassin bug 😭
That line popped into my head the moment I saw them, and I just knew I had to say it in the video
I realise this won't help your cause, but the one and only encounter I've had with a male Sydney Funnel Web wasn't nearly as relaxed as yours. The fella I accidentally disturbed while gardening was chock full of angry pills and reared up at me in a most alarming fashion, those massive fangs front and centre. I backed away slowly, apologising profusely the entire time. Luckily he and I were both able to continue unharmed without further contact. He settled down and went back to his wanderings, and I went inside for a stiff drink, very grateful that the rest of my day would be spent on my couch and not the emergency department of my local hospital.
Some are definitely more defensive than others. Seen a bunch of funnel-webs of multiple different species, and they range from mild to wild. Always pretty manageable spiders though.
Never seen a spider get out of its way to go after someone probably cause natural selection claimed the ones that would long time ago lol. That being said in my experience if you accidentally disturb one that threat posture can be very intimidating but of course right move is to apologise like “sorry little one didn’t see you there, I shall now continue on my way pay me no mind and have a good continuation of your business respectfully” as a gentle man should. I actually have quite a few spiders in my apparentement, they don’t pay rent but they eat my mosquitoes on summer so… unfortunately they a bit too small to get flies so I still have to do it myself, I did gift them one hoping I’d encourage an new understanding but so far no luck there… I have hope that negotiations are still on the table next summer tho.
Spiders are fascinating creatures love your passion for them, people think I am weird cause I get upset when people kill them even though I am scared of them but I don't like seeing any animals get hurt
Most beautiful narrating voice on youtube thus far bro... Love from Canada ;)
Thanks a lot, that’s one hell of a compliment!
Nice work man. That was very interesting watching that male funnel web on your hand. They are a whole lot bigger than I had thought. And calmer, although I think the bravest thing you did was have those Slugs on your hand. It looked like a hand full of moving snot. Cheers, Kevin.
How your channel hasn't blown up in subscribers is beyond me. It's a grind. But keep at it, bud. Your channel is awesome.
A regrettably inconsistent schedule will do that.
Plus, even though I’ve been doing UA-cam for years, it took me a long while to find my “style” so to speak.
You truly are putting in the work to show just how amazing these animals are!
Just found your channel. Thank you for your content ! Marvellous imagery. your witty word play is great 😂. Love it, off to binge your old videos! 🎉
Thanks!
Just a warning, a lot of my old videos are crap
@BugsandBiology pffft the camera work and production quality have improved but I feel like I've found a treasure trove, it's all gold. 🪲
Nah dude. You don’t fuck with funnel webs. Even the expert handlers at the reptile park know better then to let a funnel web crawl over them. That’s just a really really stupid risk to take. Why don’t you go down the beach and grab a blue ring while you’re at it. Ffs man, I know you’re young and feel invincible but don’t be so silly.
Yeah mate spot on, next thing he will be cuddling Brown snakes!
It's a pretty common trend nowadays to see Spider UA-camrs handle and even take bites from Spiders
But he has a good excuse to do so. People handle Highly Venemous Snakes, they're called Professional Snake Catchers. Now obviously they have the tools to do so, but it's still risky business.
What a moronic statement 🙁 you almost had me until you compared it to a blue ring… it’s like comparing a sling shot to a nuke… still time to delete your comment lol
@dreammaker9642 there is no antivenom for blue rings!
I highly doubt he is a moron and doesn’t have anti venom on hand just in case and I think you highly over estimate how venomous it actually is but yeah of course you never safe from an allergic reaction but then again you’d have bigger problems then. To compare it to a blue ring octopus tho like op did that’s just beyond ignorant. Tetrodoxin has no anti venom if you get bitten by one it’s guaranteed fatality and pretty quick as your nervous system shuts down very quickly ending with your lungs and heart. No one who knows anything about wildlife and Australia would get near one. Also can’t compare their venom to snake venom cause one the toxicity is no where near the same and even if it were you aren’t receiving nearly the same dose, most spiders aren’t medically relevant because they small and don’t inject a lot of venom and since you are a big ape the effective dose for most spider venoms would require you to get bitten by a lot of spiders in a short time… one spider may be unpleasant but it won’t be fatal or drastic and there’s anti venom should you happen to have a bad reaction…
Only a handful of spiders are toxic enough that a small dose would be a lot of trouble but snake that’s different cause bigger animal so even a less toxic snake would be a problem cause you’d get 10x the dose. Take a king cobra for example that not a very toxic snake but they inject you but with a buttload of venom and enough to start a clock. Blue ring octopus and dart frogs have tetrodotoxin which even the slightest dose would kill you and there’s no antivenom. Cone snails for example have a random cocktail of toxins so no antivenom and every snail is a bit different so you may live or you may meet your god in the next hour or so… had this been a necrotoxin we’d have a different conversation because even if you live, with an effective dose 50/50 you losing that limb. All this to say it radically depends on the toxicity and dosage which in the case of this spider is rather low compared to all the animals you comparing to especially blue ring octopus which is a nuke in that department.
I come for the bugs, but I stay for the poetry
Bloody hell I didn’t think I’d ever see someone handling a Sydney Funnel web lol! My hat goes off to you sir! Videos are brilliant btw!!
This video was absolutely magnificent! I have a strange fascination with spiders and always have, accompanied by a slight fear. Even Morgoth was afraid of Ungoliant. A Phidipus Audax lived in my window for an entire summer/autumn period. I fell in love with that thing and called it Harry. She was amazing and fascinating and quicker than lightning. I know, generally, where the big spiders live in my basement and I leave them alone. They leave piles of insect husks here and there in their secret places. I appreciate that. Great video! Keep up supporting spiders! It's a tough job.
Super glad you enjoyed the video!
Yeah, jumping spiders are certainly easy to get attached to - such a shame they’re so short-lived.
You are an insane individual. Thanks for being the guinea pig for our entertainment. I enjoy the way you narrate the vids.
Missed you, sir! :) Also, handling Atrax robustus after roasting them for so long... respect 😂
Great script, excellent narration! A thoroughly enjoyable video. Thanks for sharing the knowledge so eloquently. 👍
As an Aussie in the upper Blue Mountains I had never heard of the peacock spider.
I think this one might be my favourite of the outdoor adventures (Although Kuranda really makes that choice difficult). Even though you’ve handled Hadronyche versuta before, seeing Atrax robustus is just different. Looks like you guys had a ton of fun! Also I would’ve said in the name of Melkor personally but I guess he’s been in the void for a while.
Maybe in the name of Ungoliant is more appropriate with this video.
Kuranda, to me, was a lot of lost potential.
I could’ve gotten so much more footage out of that trip had I not been so impulsive with my filming. I kept running from animal to animal, and ended up with very little to work with for each species.
I think Nephila pilipes was the only animal I spent enough time with to get a decent segment out of.
8 foot spider with traction control and incredible suspension .
Well done - all of your podcasts are great and your knowledge of arachnids is impeccable. Merry Christmas to you.
Funnel webs are the only spider I won't handle.
I haven't ever seen one that calm before though.
Jumping spiders are still quite cute though
Great video, as always. You have a great way of describing things and your videos are always super relaxing and nice. Seriously brave of you to handle the funnel web. It's a seriously nasty looking spider.
What an excellent video! Your voice is excellent!
Thanks!
I never thought I'd see anyone actually handle a funnel-web spider! I 'know' that they only fang larger animals (including humans) as a last resort, but I'd have thought that a funnel-web would become defensive if handled, particularly as you were waving your hand around in front of it a moment earlier.
The most dangerous arthropods I've handled were bull ants. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else try that, though. Bull ants are curious, but temperamental.
First time I've ever seen anyone handle one of these puppies.
Only seen them raise up as soon as they're out of the jar!
Heart in mouth moment.
Temperament does vary; I’ve seen some that were similarly chill, and others that would threat pose at the slightest disturbance. Most would be somewhere in between.
Lovely visuals and soothingly hyperbolic narration = subscribe. Love from Otway Ranges 🦘
Fascinating video - thanks a lot!
You are far greater than I think you think you are. Brilliant video, love your wording.
You got balls of steel...and while I have no qualms of handling spiders...you handled a spider with the temperament of 'i kill you.'
Or as you said...'being a fucking idiot.'
Hats off to you for being willing to handle the SFW. Don't think I would ever do that myself.
"Magic-fluid" deserves to be the word of the year 2024 lol 😆
The flowers of Sydney are amazing.
You featured them well.
So beautiful!❤❤❤
The narrator has the best voice ever. Listening to this video I felt like a child transported to some fantastical dream world.
That’s exactly what I was aiming for!
_A. robustus_ is pretty goth-looking isn't it. Acts about as chill as every other large spider I've handled TBH.
Some individuals are more defensive than others, but this one was very chill.
It’s kinda surprising how much funnel-webs can vary in that regard.
And about as chill as the goths I used to hang out with in my teens lol
10:28 But I am a &$%(ing idiot... 🤣Didn't expect that, but I can appreciate it. I love seeing these Australian arachnids. Some of which are incredible beautiful!
Unexpectedly cussing in the middle of serious presentation does seem to have become a recurring thing on this channel haha
@@BugsandBiology It's ok with me brother. 😅Enjoy your channel.
Love to see a collaboration between you and General Apathy someday.
Dream blunt rotation right there
Have you ever handled a North Coast tree funnelweb? They are at least half again as big as this bloke and probably nearly as venomous. And, though I realize it is de riguer to give UA-cam videos the most sensational title possible, for the sake of accuracy it should have been titled as the most VENOMOUS spider in Oz, as it doesn't actually kill anyone anymore. That being said, in the 1950s, when I was a little tacker, a local boy in Lane Cove, Sydney, while on a Scout Camp in Kuringai Chase, pulled on his boot one morning and was bit by one of these things. Unfortunately, he expired after about three days, so they can kill, potentially. The first time the antinvenom was used was when a fairly young boy in Bellingen Shire (where I now reside) was bitten on the head when he put on his bicycle helmet. He was helicoptered to the Coffs Harbour Hospital where there was a supply of the life saving liquid and was all Ok after a day or two. I used to catch them in a peanut butter jar on building sites where I worked around Sydney's north shore and take em in to the museum. People say they jump at you and attack and other nonsense but like a red-back only bite if actually squeezed or pressured in some way. They do stand up on their hind legs and display those wicked fangs though. Bigger fangs that some very dangerous Aussie snakes. It's funny how overseas people, fed on sensational wildlife documentaries, think that something is going to bite or attack them as soon as they get off the plane in Australia, though they would happily go to places where far more people are killed by wildlife, like Africa, or India, or anywhere in SE Asia or South America.
Also they go on about our marine animals without realising that basically everywhere in the Indo-Pacific has box jellyfish, stonefish and blue ring octopus.
@griffinc3263 Plus sharks and saltwater crocs
I learned recently that statistically the most dangerous animal in Australia is actually the horse. Yeah. Far more people suffer debilitating injuries and/or are accidentally killed by horses than all the other wildlife combined. Go figure.
I've had an encounter with a male Sydney Funnel web, I accidentally disturbed him when gardening. He reared up at me and those massive fangs were front and centre but he didn't bite me luckily. I backed away and went inside for a stiff drink. I've also seen lots of red-bellied black snakes and eastern browns, never had any trouble at all. Leave them be and you're in no danger at all.
I grew up and lived for years in a part of the lower Blue Mountains which was mostly bush land and national park. I live in Woolgoolga now, so we're kind of neighbours. Cheers.
@@woopimagpie Yes I know. I handled many horses over 20 some years and got several broken bones, many bruises and had many potentially fatal near misses from kicks, falls etc. I spent many years bushwalking and working in the bush,, and never had any real threats. Seen plenty of snakes and spiders but as you say, just left them alone. Practice a bit of simple caution and you'll be right.
Never seen a northern tree funnel-web yet, though they’re high on my list of targets. I have handled other funnel-webs before this one, including Hadronyche infensa, Hadronyche versuta and an undescribed Atrax species.
Best videography. Best narration.
Thanks!
This is the most fabulous intro to Aussie spiders 😂❤❤❤
The ticks on the funnel web 🤯
I really like that clip you often use of you petting that Holconia; how many takes did you need before she stopped bolting for cover?
Not too many honestly; she bolted when I first moved the bark she was under, but chilled out fairly soon after that.
H. immanis is probably the most bolty Holconia species I’ve worked with too - the rest seem more laid back on average.
Wow. You have more guts than I do mate!!
why was i not subscribed to you...
the red back one was beautiful
Great collaboration. Your intro monologue is surprisingly reminiscent of a Danny Mullen monologue
Wow. I gotta say. While they are an odd looking spider. They are oddly beautiful to me. I think its just the way their legs are but i just love that look. Keep uto the good work!
gaddamn i held my breath the whole time you held that funnel web...shit took a year off my life lol
What a theatrical voice presentation style!
Egads!
So, the FW spider seemed content to just wander about on the hand and arm... Is it the case that they would most likely bite when one has them in a "crushing embrace"? Perhaps accidentally putting hand or arm on them with some pressure, or, feeling one crawling up one's leg, unthinkingly, swatting at the leg of one's pants?
Jackson funny years of experience of being a fkn idiot still chuckling now but fair play I couldnt freehanded it great video thanks matey
They are magnificent looking creatures
I would presume you were close to Somersby Australia Reptile Park on the Central Coast where they milk and hence have Quantities of
F/W anti Venom supplies. 😂
Love this ! 😂
Not much better than a rainy day in the bush! Gives the place a completely different vibe ^_^
I am being very brave by watching this video as I am arachnophobic but I also adore some of these little guys and love learning about all the amazing creatures we have down here (still having to cover my screen whenever you show a huntsmen though)
Arachnaphobe here as well but I finally released the tension from my body at watching the funnel web when he showed the Huntsman. lol It was like seeing a friendly, bolty puppy compared to a trip the the ED.
i want to go to australia so bad i need to nerd out
I found a mouse spider a couple of months ago for the first time ever. It packs a little of intimidation for a little spider.
Absolute worst experience in the bush is walking face first into a web. Ask any soldier or unhinged bush walker.
new sub to this great channel❤. Not sure if you have done a video on the female mouse spider? Would love to see it. I see these every autumn and they are the reason I never leave boots outside. I am scared of every spider, even the harmless ones, but these gals do not look harmless. Biggest fangs I have ever seen in real life. They are not aggressive thankfully.
Have never yet had the chance to film a mouse spider; they are present around my area, but very cryptic and hard to notice. Definitely a target to keep in mind though!
When I was still in California, I saw one of these come into my room. It was a garage-turned-bedroom. The screen door had like 4 inches of space at the bottom and stuff could get in. The spider I saw was tarantula-sized, nearly the size of my previous rose hair. It took me years to figure out what that spider was. I didn't catch it.
You would’ve seen something else; lots of Mygalomorph spiders resemble funnel-webs
@@BugsandBiology Yeah, I don't know what it was. It was at least 6 inches wide, had thick, black, smooth legs that looked metallic in their flawlessness, and an abdomen of a different texture.
It was definitely a harmless tarantula.
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 Thank you so much for identifying the danger level of an animal you've never seen. You're the single greatest animal expert that's ever lived! I'm truly honored to have had the experience to bathe in your radiance.
@@ViirinSoftworks I know the basic mygalomorph families and know that only tarantulas can reach those sizes in the Northern Hemisphere. It was probably a common Aphonopelma. Are you pretending to be smart or something?
This funnel web was chilling just like a New World tarantula. I thought that males bite because they are territorial, not so much for defensive reasons. Also funny assassin bug moment.
Mate that took a lot of balls to handle that beastie. Stupid yes but ballsy.
Hi Jackson I love this video! I was listening to some Australian news and they said they discovered a new species of funnel web. I just wanted to know have you seen it yet?
Yep! That’s what my next video will be about
@BugsandBiology oh I can't wait for this one! I am so excited!
Every Funnel-Web spider I meet wants to kill me. They rear up and say "come at me bro".
The Sydney variety looks very docile. The Blue Mountains ones are easily triggered.
They do vary. I’ve kept very defensive Sydney funnel-webs, and very laid back Blue Mountains funnel-webs too.
I will say the Blue Mountains funnel-web is a considerably more impressive looking spider.
Beautifully crafted piece 👏🏻 Where I Lived some time back, on the Central Coast (NSW) I would frequently find funnies in the downstairs shower in summer. They’d come in through our cat door then off for a drink and a cool off in the shower, lol. They were never aggressive, always well behaved fellows, sometimes I’d forget to check first, turn on the shower and I’d find the poor thing cowering in the corner behind the shampoo bottle. Needless to say I’d have to stop the proceedings, scoop her/him up into a plastic jug that was close by especially for that purpose and gently pop her/him outside from whence s/he came. Lived with all manner of spiders and found them all to be most agreeable little neighbours. Just loved your clip btw🤍 and is it just me, or does the little peacock spider look like he has a fleur de lis as an insignia on his back ? Susan@M.Lehane.👋🏻🇦🇺
Amazing narration.
Most spiders kind of don't want to get intimate with us, because we're much larger, potentially a threat and not prey. I like dragonflies, not just due to their iridescent bodies and wonderful compound eyes, but when they're around bothersome bush flies go away. The insect version of hawks, with their water born lavae as firece as the adults. People keep jumping spiders as pets.
How does wearing short sleeves and shorts work in Australia? Here in germany I'm always told to wear long pants and long sleeves to avoid ticks , mosquitos and stuff. How is it in Australia?
It's the same but too hot most of the time for long sleeves n pants
Just shows, they don’t want to hurt us…only trying to defend themselves ❤
That slug was something else again! We ain't got nuffin' like that in dry, cold Canberra!
Those are red triangle slugs (Triboniophorus graeffei) which occur along much of Australia’s eastern coast. They can actually be found reasonably close to Canberra, but it’s toward the southern limit of their range.
Super impressive creatures for sure!
@@BugsandBiology They certainly are! The biggest we get (at least in my garden) are the occasional tiger slugs - not quite as big. Even so, we mainly get old-fashioned (small) garden slugs, which I imagine are imported from some batch of European lettuces in the 1800s!
Seriously this guy should be a documentary narrator!
Might just have to drop the innuendo and swearing first haha
Up close and personal he says MG I had an epileptic fit because of a funnel web spider when I was four because of the fright as it was in front of the toilet and I was too little to put the light on but that night I jumped and jumped and jumped and I turned that light on if I hadn’t I would’ve been bitten by a big one…. One of the biggest funnel web I’ve ever seen possibly could’ve been a female as dad had Doug foundations for the back sunroom to be built….. no thank you sir. You’ve literally made my guts come up into my throat do flip-flops and go back down.😂😂😂
Loved your video! Beautiful work.
(and FYI suitor is 'sue-ter' not 'swee-ter' 😊)
I realised that after recording. At that point it was nearly midnight and I couldn’t be bothered redoing it haha
@BugsandBiology I totally get that feeling. Just wanted to make sure you knew 😁
I got bit buy 8 different spiders in one week the most I got was a headache and felt a little bit sick for couple days I live in the lower hunter valley area all bites happened of a night time bush walking looking for yowies lol
11:11 stunning 😍
13:16 lil cutie 🥺
5:28 equally cute ☺
Your ability to sound whimsical and Tolkien...ey is fused with beautiful whiplash of vulgarity, and the assassin bug comment made me roll my eyes like "cmon dude". And the "i' have experience being an idiot" is flipping beautiful.
It is curious that even in books with experts behind them, the sydney funnel web is said to be at the very least 'ready to assume a defensive posture." Do you think people misconstrue that with being aggressive?
Keep up the good work Jackson . The more Myths that are debunked ,the more ignorant people will learn what is truth and what is clearly misinformation .
I think it's possibly the wandering you mentioned that the males do has given some people the impression that these spiders are aggressive. I gotta admit I'm glad they don't live on my side of the island.
Your metabolism must be as fast as your brain.
11:25Are mites on spider teeth?
They’re just hitching a ride.
Closing my eyes, I hear Boris Karloff speaking.
what impresses me a little bit more is how you figured out the logistics of carrying those massive steel balls you got around to be able to search the wild. always learn a thing or 2 watching your vids, keep doing what you do man.
Aussie spiders For The win
Everybody talks about our dangerous animals that can kill in a heartbeat, crocodiles, funnelled spiders, Eastern Taipan snake etc etc, but nobody and I mean nobody talks about the deadliest animal in the whole country and that animal is the......drop bear.....found predominantly in all tourist campsites. Imagine, you set up your tent, cook up a nice meal, have a few beers, talk about the big one that got away around a camp fire then you retire to your tent to have a well earned snooze and as you doze off into dreamworld a 30 pound drop bear lands on your tent and the terror of the camper cannot be imagined. These bears are well known here in Australia and are fearsome predators. I would recommend that any tourists planning on coming to Australia to do some camping, I highly recommend purchasing a motorcycle hard helmet for your own safety.😊
I’ve grown up around spiders yet they still make me uneasy, huntsman’s still definitely do, my mums 52 and she’s seen them alot yet still scared, so I don’t think that explanation quite explains it
It’s not a universal explanation - it’s an explanation for why I, personally, don’t find Australian spiders especially impressive.
Plus, I’d seen plenty of photos/videos of much larger spiders from overseas, so the “Australia big spiders” thing never really landed with me.
God you're a mad lad.
Noooooo waaaaaaay!!!!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
6:29 the marking on his ophistosoma look like a small dancing insect :D
the red bits are the first arms, lifted next to the head. like a dancing assassin bug or something
Atrax will only bite in defence if you’re not prey. Full respect to you
Nice video as usual but there's a newish UA-cam feature where it automatically dubs it with a TTS voice you have to turn off on a per-video basis - absolutely cumbersome for those of us who enjoy using UA-cam videos in different languages (it mutes the background music and ambient sounds too). If that's your decision, more power to you. But I understand it's being turned on by UA-cam unbeknownst to the creators now ...
Huh…I was completely unaware
@@BugsandBiology :D
D’a three amigos. Great trio if you ask me ❤
An Australian went back to ye olde medieval times and Tolkien-ized nature exploration.
great video ...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Do you think Maisie's decision in fallen kingdom have any wait until dominion. I get it, if the dino ect clones deserve to die then the kid clone might as well too and we can't have that. But from a presumed conservationists perspective, was it the move they should have taken given the circumstances. In any case I always wished she wasn't so metaphorical about it. "their alive like me", WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Don't really know much about the JW trilogy, so I can't say I have an opinion.
When they jump, are jumping spiders jumping "to" somewhere, or are they just jumping and then grabbing hold of whatever they land on?
Yes the latter, they jump with their powerful legs, no muscles just something to do with their blood that launches them where they aim at.
Probably a mix. If they need to escape, they probably just jump wherever, so long as it gets them away.
Meanwhile, if they’re hunting, they have to be a lot more precise.
They have those huge forward-facing eyes in part to judge distances so they can know where they’re headed
If you don't mind... what do you use for your macros? It's amazing! I've been looking at Lumix models ever since I saw The Dark Den's macros. They nail image quality, and whatever you have also nails video macro quality.
It’s just a fairly cheap clip-on macro lens for my phone (iPhone 15). Certainly does its job well!
@BugsandBiology wow. Moment lens? Or a small rig? I have a small rig cage and burl wood metal handle with the BT shutter button on an iPhone 13 PM.
I'm disappointed. I had always been led to believe that the deadliest and most feared spider in Australia was the 'dunny spider' that shot up your crack when you sat on the dunny. Ah well... you live and learn.
That sounds a little wishful thinking 😅
I take it those were mites of some sort on the funnel web?