Michael Tate, the park’s education official, said: ‘She is unusually large and if we can get the public to turn in more spiders like her, it will only lead to more people being saved. save more lives due to the huge amount of venom they can produce.” “We really wanted to find out where she came from in hopes of finding more MASSIVE spiders like her.”
According to the Australian Museum, the average body length of a funnel web spider is 1 to 5 centimeters, making this spider large. But it’s not the largest spider in Australia.
That honor goes to the tarantula spider, aka the whistling spider, due to the noise it makes when provoked. The body of the northern species Selenocosmia crassipes can grow up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long, with a stride length of 16 cm (6.3 in).
Funnel web spiders or Atrax robustus may be smaller, but they are “the most notorious member” of the country’s arachnids, according to the Australian Museum’s website.
While not all of the 40 species are dangerous, “several species are known for their powerful and fast-acting venom”, with the male Sydney funnel web being implicated in all 13 deaths. in humans was recorded, the museum said.
The museum said: “This remarkable spider has become a part of Sydney folklore and although no deaths have been recorded since the emergence of a antivenom in 1981, it remains a symbol of fear and fascination for Sydneysiders,” the museum said.
The Australian Reptile Park said that Megaspider’s fangs will be milked to get a venom that can be turned into ant venom.
The park added that the spider had been donated somewhere in coastal Sydney or New South Wales.
“It was in a Tupperware container without any labels to indicate where it came from,” the statement said. “Farmers are eager to find the area it’s coming to in the hope of finding more large spider species as they produce larger amounts of venom for the anti-venom program.”
