Australian funnel webs

[Grant Miller]

One of my Hadronyche formidabilis (northern tree dwelling funnel web)




Hadronyche ? (possibly infensa) displaying "liquid death"



closeup

[Ian Hall]

Great pictures!

[Colin D Wilson]

Great spiders and images.... stunning last shot mate..

[James Box]

Beautiful spiders
nice feisty personalities, i see!

[andy hood]

great photos and stunning spiders

[Jennifer Todd]

I love the last photo

[Grant Miller]

Thanks guys and gals , I`ve now had a successful H. formidabilis egg sac . The mother spider is just under 100mm L/S

you can get an idea of her size by comparing her to the egg sac then the egg sac to my hand , she is huge .


just imagine the quantity of venom contained within THESE chelicerae absolutely massive , can see how they are capable of taking down adult green tree frogs ...WOW!



The mum , "DONT TOUCH MY BABIES !! "

indication of sling size



2nds have darkened up considerably and are very active

[andy hood]

very nice photo's of the nymphs

[gary spencer]

wow

that last shot of the venom dripping chelicerae i can feel the pain from the camera great shot there.

[Steven Williams]

These are really great photos mate. Really great. Shows how beautiful yet deadly these creatures can be. Fantastic. I wish you all the best with the slings too.

Steven

[Grant Miller]

all up this girl produced 488 slings from this one clutch , that is a number which is pretty much unheard of for funnel webs considering they average between 80 - 250 young . The slings took 2 full days for my mate to seperate (extremely small , 3mm body length and we usually dont have to deal with such large numbers of slings even from our T`s) but I`m glad I wasn`t seperating them I now have another 8 Hadronyche spp. with sacs and am eagerly awaiting the slings arrival