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OT spiders

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Subject: OT spiders
From: David Nicholls <>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:05:11 +1100
There was what looked for all the world like a funnelweb nesting among ivy along my back fence (Deakin) last summer. It had just caught and trussed up a honey bee. Characteristic web among the foliage. Smaller that the Sydney funnelwebs I have seen photos of, but otherwise similar.

DN

On 7/11/10 5:30 PM,  wrote:
I have seen an enormous Funnelweb spider walking through my garage in
Hughes at night after heavy rain (they typically emerge in Sydney after
heavy rain). This would have been around 1998.

John Leonard

On , Peter Ormay <> wrote:
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 > Hello Margaret,
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 > Were you in the mountains west of Canberra when you came
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 > During my days as Rangar at TNR, (late '70's - early
 > 80's) TNR I had several spiders identified by an  arachnologist
 > at the National Museum in Sydney. One was from the toilet block at
 > Honeysuckle Ck Tracking Station site.  There were three species of
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Canberra
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 > All of the funnel webs in the ACT are potentially as
 > venomous to humans as the Sydney funnel web but there has been no
 > invenomation by a funnel web spider in the ACT as far as I know.
 > However a teenage girl died in the '60s after being bitten by a
spider in
 > the Snowy Mountains.
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 > Peter Ormay
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