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

Maziviro ayo
Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
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
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InourayaImwe yemhuka dzine ngozi zvikuru pasi rose.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
Mashoko akanaka: vanachiremba vane mushonga (antivenom) kana kurapwa kwechinhu ichi.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
When threatened or provoked, it rears up on its hind legs, shows its fangs and may bite repeatedly while holding on tightly.1
Kana ikaruma
- 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
- Geza parumwa wotonhodza. Wana rubatsiro rwechiremba kana marwadzo akanyanya kana munhu asinganzwi zvakanaka.
- MuAustralia, kurumwa kupi nekupi nedandemutande hombe dema kunobatwa sekurumwa nefunnel-web: Kusunga nekumisa (pressure immobilisation): monera bhandeji rinotambanuka zvakasimba pamusoro peparumwa wozokwira nenhengo yose (ruoko kana gumbo), isungirire nechitsigiso (splint), uye chengeta munhu asingafambe zvachose kusvikira rubatsiro rwasvika.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakuruma: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
ipfupi kupfuura munwe wako mudiki
inogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 260 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)Sydney funnel-web spider yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
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
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: The male and female funnel-web spiders were thought to be different species.
Chokwadi: 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
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Sydney funnel-web spider (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Atrax robustus (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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