Bob Dendry (Join Our Server!) on Nostr: look, tbh the risk of spiders in Australia is a bit overblown.<li>Funnel Webs - will ...

look, tbh the risk of spiders in Australia is a bit overblown.<li>Funnel Webs - will probably kill you.</li><li>Mouse Spiders - might kill you but probably won't.</li><li>Redbacks - <em>could</em> kill you.</li>

There's not been a spider bite death in Australia since the early 80s.

I find spiders pretty fascinating tbh - Wolf Spiders are my fave - unique in that they carry their egg sacks with them, and later their young on their back! Photo below showing this, though not an Australian species.