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WildColonial Boy said:
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Sydney funnel web spider. Extremely dangerous and venomous.
I have two interesting stories about them.
1. Came home from a 12 hour night shift and normally I would just jump straight into bed.
But for some unknown reason that I still don't know, I pulled back all the covers on my bed. There in the middle of the bed was a big funnel web.
For the next couple of weeks I stripped the bed before I went to sleep.
2. I had a temp job working on sewer construction on the Northern beaches of Sydney. Normally a big digger would excavate the trenches to lay the pipes but we were working through peoples' back yards and couldn't get a digger in, so all trenches had to be dug by hand. We started in one yard and very quickly came upon a funnel web hole. Then another. Then dozens.
Normally there were about 8 of us on crew all digging.
However we were discovering so many funnel webs we had only 2 blokes in the trench in full overalls, boots and extra PPE while the rest stood above the trench as spotters.
In one back yard alone (in probably a 20mtr stretch) we found approx 132 funnel webs.
We did catch quite a few to take to the local hospital for them to make an anti-venom.
Creepy bastards. I hate them!!
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I suffered from arachnophobia.
i sort of cured it by myself, exposing me to videos of people handling spiders as tarantulas and similar, and handling myself multiple (smaller) spiders.

But funnel webs... nope.
 
That is a lot of crawly winged things. (pun intended) these pics kind of bug me. In return, I show you the world's happiest bukkit!

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Yes, this is a Home Depot Bucket squishmallow. Bob Ross would have painted this bukkit.
 
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