Thank you, everybody.
The location... Callum Brae. Open woodland, Blakely’s red gums
of all ages and stages of life and death.
This fellow was sequestered in a crack in a dead stump. There were several on the same tree, and
some on other rough-barked living trees nearby.
But the lichens and grasses, the reason I was poking around, were
beautiful.
Margaret
From: Peter Ormay
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Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2010 4:40 PM
To: Margaret Leggoe;
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] OT spiders
Were you in the mountains west of Canberra when you
came across these spiders?
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 funnel
web spiders known from the ACT then, all from the ranges west of Canberra
but did not include the Sydney funnel web.
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.
