Sydney funnel-web spider
The Sydney funnel-web spider is a venomous spider from eastern Australia. It is found mostly within about 100 km of Sydney. Its bite can cause serious illness or death if it is not treated, so it is one of the most important spiders to know about in the region.1

Sɛdeɛ wobɛhunu no
Bɔre ahoɔden
Bɔre fi ne se mu ba bere a ɔka.
Ne bɔre yɛ dɛn?
The venom contains delta-atracotoxin, which affects the ion channels of nerves and makes it highly toxic to humans and other primates. Symptoms can include intense nausea, vomiting, excessive saliva, muscle twitching, breathing difficulty, confusion and unconsciousness. In severe cases, symptoms begin in under one hour, with a median time of 28 minutes in one study.1
Ne asiane ma nnipa te sɛn?
Asiane ma nnipa: ƐkumMmoa a asiane wɔ wɔn ho sen biara wɔ wiase no mu baako.A bite can cause serious illness or death if untreated. Children are at particular risk: in one study, 42% of severe cases were children. There is at least one recorded case of a small child dying within 15 minutes of a bite. Only the Sydney funnel-web and the northern tree-dwelling funnel-web have been known to cause fatal bites in humans. There have been no recorded deaths since antivenom became available in 1981.1
Asɛmpa: dɔkotafoɔ wɔ aduro (antivenom) anaa ayaresa ma yei.1
Ɛyɛ dɛn bere a ehu aka no?
When threatened or provoked, it rears up on its hind legs, shows its fangs and may bite repeatedly while holding on tightly.1
Sɛ ɛka a
- A Sydney funnel-web bite is a medical emergency that needs immediate hospital treatment. Guidelines recommend two vials of antivenom, or four if symptoms are severe, with patients assessed every 15 minutes and more vials given if symptoms do not resolve.1
- Hohoro baabi a ɛkaa no na dwo. Hwehwɛ dɔkota mmoa sɛ yaw no mu yɛ den anaa onipa no ho ntɔ no a.
- Wɔ Australia, ananse tuntum kɛseɛ biara ka no, hwɛ no sɛ funnel-web ka: Pressure immobilisation: fa elastic bandage a ɛyɛ den kyekyere baabi a ɛkaa no so, na afei kyekyere kɔ soro wɔ nsa anaa nan no nyinaa so, fa splint kyekyere ho, na ma onipa no ntena dinn koraa kosi sɛ mmoa bɛba.
Di kan frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911). Yei yɛ mmoa a ɛdi kan ho akwankyerɛ, ɛnyɛ dɔkota afotuo. Mmoa a ɛdi kan ho nsɛm titiriw
Hwɛ wo ho so
- Mfa wo nsa nka wiram aboa biara, nkyere no na mfa no nni agorɔ, sɛ ɔyɛ ketewa mpo, na sɛ ɛte sɛ ɔrededa anaa wawu mpo a.
- Ma no kwan. Sɛ wohyia baako a, ma wo bo nnwo, san w'akyi brɛoo na ma ɔnkɔ ne kwan.
- Sɛ baako ka wo a: ma wo bo nnwo, tena dinn, frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911) anaa kɔ ayaresabea ntɛm. Kae sɛdeɛ na ɛte, mfonini bɛboa.
Ɛnhwehwɛ wo sɛ ɛbɛpira wo. Ɛde ne bɔre kyere aduane anaa ɛbɔ ne ho ban, na ɛpɛ sɛ ɛhinta sene biribiara. Nsɛm pii fa ahobammɔ ho
Wiase mu baabi bɛn?
Ne kɛseɛ te sɛn?
Ne tenten te sɛn?
ɛyɛ tiaa sen wo nsateaa ketewa
ɛbɛtumi atu mita 100 wɔ anibu 260 mu (onipa a ɔwɔ ntɛm sen biara hia 9.6)Sydney funnel-web spider kɛseɛ te sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?
Akontabuo kɛkɛ wɔ wo browser mu. Wɔnkora hwee, na wɔmfa hwee nkɔ baabiara.
Ne ntɛm te sɛn?
Nsɛm
Males can survive submersion in water for up to twenty-four hours by trapping air bubbles on the hairs of their abdomen.1
One dose of antivenom needs around 70 milkings from a Sydney funnel-web spider.1
The most antivenom vials used to treat one bite is twelve, for a 10-year-old boy bitten in February 2017 by a male hiding in a shoe.1
Female spiders are long-lived and spend most of their time in their burrows. No severe envenoming by a female has been reported.1
Activity increases after heavy rain, because burrows can become flooded.1
Atosɛm sɛefoɔ
Atosɛm: The male and female funnel-web spiders were thought to be different species.
Nokorɛ: In 1927, Anthony Musgrave showed from anatomical similarities that the male Euctimena tibialis was the male of Atrax robustus, the same species as the female.1
Baabi a nsɛm no fi
- Sydney funnel-web spider (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Atrax robustus (iNaturalist): din ne nkyekyɛmu.
- Venom Wiki: asiane gyinabea, kɛseɛ a ɛtaa yɛ ne ntɛm susuo no yɛ yɛn ankasa deɛ. Hwɛ sɛdeɛ yɛbu no: Sɛdeɛ yɛkyerɛ asiane gyinabea.
Nsɛm biara a ɛwɔ kratafa yi so wɔ nɔma a ɛkyerɛ ne fibea. Sɛ yɛfom biribi a, kafra, yɛyɛ mmoa ho akɔnnɔfoɔ, ɛnyɛ nyansahu nwoma. Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected] na yɛbɛsiesie.
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