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
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> Were you in the mountains west of Canberra when you came
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> 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
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