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Hard to pin down, so many spiders of a species look different. It looks like a jumping spider,
8 most common household spiders in Australia (and how to identify them)
By Jessica Jones
Feb 15, 2023
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https://www.safewise.com/au/common-household-spiders-australia/
but is too small. It even looks like an Alpine Funnel Web, see below. I would never have picked which is seen
as the most venomous spider. One last in support of my saying spiders are our friends, just get a bad rap:
Top spider myths
A myth for each leg: fearsome funnel-webs, deadly Daddy Long-legs and swallowing spiders in your sleep.
Often misunderstood, spiders are the subject of many popular myths.
Spiders are a truly diverse group, with more than 40,000 described species in the world—and those are just the ones we know about.
But they have a bad reputation, especially venomous Australian species like the Sydney Funnel-web and Redback Spider.
Museums Victoria receives hundreds of questions about spiders every year: here are some of the more persistent myths.
1 Spiders are insects
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Visual hunters, like this jumping spider on the left, tend to have larger eyes; web-builders, like this orb-weaver, have smaller eyes.
2 All spiders are aggressive
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A female Alpine Funnel-web (Hadronyche alpina) rearing back. Note the beads of venom on the tips of her fangs.
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4 Daddy Long-legs is the world’s most venomous
spider but its fangs are too short to pierce human skin
[...]
7 The only good spider is a dead spider
For many of us the first reaction to a spider is fear, and often involves reaching for a can of spray or a shoe.
The reality is that a world without spiders would be a very different place.
An estimated 25 million tonnes of spiders populate the planet, and they eat between 400 and 800 million tonnes of invertebrates a year—insects that could otherwise pose a threat to us or our food sources.
Spiders themselves are also food for thousands of the world’s bird and mammal species.
Let’s keep them around, shall we?
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/article/top-spider-myths/
8 most common household spiders in Australia (and how to identify them)
By Jessica Jones
Feb 15, 2023
[...]
https://www.safewise.com/au/common-household-spiders-australia/
but is too small. It even looks like an Alpine Funnel Web, see below. I would never have picked which is seen
as the most venomous spider. One last in support of my saying spiders are our friends, just get a bad rap:
Top spider myths
A myth for each leg: fearsome funnel-webs, deadly Daddy Long-legs and swallowing spiders in your sleep.
Often misunderstood, spiders are the subject of many popular myths.
Spiders are a truly diverse group, with more than 40,000 described species in the world—and those are just the ones we know about.
But they have a bad reputation, especially venomous Australian species like the Sydney Funnel-web and Redback Spider.
Museums Victoria receives hundreds of questions about spiders every year: here are some of the more persistent myths.
1 Spiders are insects
[...]
Visual hunters, like this jumping spider on the left, tend to have larger eyes; web-builders, like this orb-weaver, have smaller eyes.
2 All spiders are aggressive
[...]
A female Alpine Funnel-web (Hadronyche alpina) rearing back. Note the beads of venom on the tips of her fangs.
[...]
4 Daddy Long-legs is the world’s most venomous
spider but its fangs are too short to pierce human skin
[...]
7 The only good spider is a dead spider
For many of us the first reaction to a spider is fear, and often involves reaching for a can of spray or a shoe.
The reality is that a world without spiders would be a very different place.
An estimated 25 million tonnes of spiders populate the planet, and they eat between 400 and 800 million tonnes of invertebrates a year—insects that could otherwise pose a threat to us or our food sources.
Spiders themselves are also food for thousands of the world’s bird and mammal species.
Let’s keep them around, shall we?
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/article/top-spider-myths/
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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