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by BwViper on October 20, 2004
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I am not a spider person, although I do keep some, but I am more into snakes. I have been wanting to figure out how to get a funnel web spider and I know they are extremely toxic. Are they the most toxic of the spiders. I think they are extremely interesting and very wicked looking spiders. But are they at the top of the list as far as been lethal? Thanks in advance.
Bobby
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by Phobos on October 20, 2004
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Hi:
Since it's from AUSTRALIA it may come under their ban on wildlife exports. As for being the most toxic spider. I'm not sure. If I recall correctly some of the smaller spiders who's fangs are so short they can't envenomate humans have the most toxic venom.
Al
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by Phobos on October 20, 2004
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Bobby:
Check this out....but try to stay out of trouble ;-)
http://forums.insecthobbyist.com/
Al
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by BwViper on October 21, 2004
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I checked it out alone with a bunch of other sites. I still didn't find what the most toxic spider is. It appears to be the sidney funnel web. Different sites say different things. So I am still in the same boat. I do know there are a lot of factors envolved to make such a determination, but I would really like to know which one is truely the top dog in the spider world.
Thanks everyone for the replies and more are welcome.
Bobby
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by Michiganman on October 21, 2004
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The MOST toxic spider is the common, Daddy Long Legs, believe it or not! His little fangs are too small to penetrate human flesh. The thickest hide those little guys can penetrate belongs to the house fly!
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by BGF on October 21, 2004
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The most toxic spider would be one of the funnel web species (the Sydney doesn't actually appear to be the most toxic, Hadronyche cerbera (Paperbark funnel web) requires vastly more antivenom but this could be due to poor antigenic match). Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria fera) is certainly also very very toxic. These funnelwebs (Atrax and Hadronyche genera) are the most toxic of the Mygalomorphae spiders, the primative spiders, while Phoneutria fera is the most toxic of the Araneomorphae spiders, the advanced spiders. One easy way to tell if a spider is in one or the other is that the mygalomorph fangs swing back and forth like a vipers while the araneomorph fangs are like pinchers.
Daddy long legs are not the most toxic. This was a myth started by a moron from Texas (a common theme).
Cheers
Bryan
www.venomdoc.com
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by TexasCobra on October 21, 2004
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The most toxic spider is the funnel web. sry to tell ya but the daddy long leg is a myth. it can actually bite you and it is about the equivilent feeling of a bee sting i asked a profeser on it. and last night it was even on myth busters. he got bit and LIVED OMG. I thout it was all my life but i finally found out the truth. But anyways yes one of the speaces of funnel web is the most toxic spider on the planet and im not sure but i beleave it to be a sidney or how ever ya spell it.
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by BwViper on October 21, 2004
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Yes, even I know the daddy longlegs is a myth. I have been reading ALOT to try and find out the answer to this question. It seems that the wandering spider is the most toxic followed by the funnel web spider. The tree dwelling funnel web, I think, is the most toxic of the funnel webs going by what I have read. With out medical care, you will die if envenomated by the Wandering spider.
I also didn't know that the male sidney funnel web is 5 times more toxic than the female, but it is. Rather interesting I think..
This is just stuff I have read this evening, if someone finds something different... let me know!
Thanks for all the help everyone..
Bobby
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