Funnel web spiders are a group of spiders that belong to the Dipluridae family in the order Araneida. They get this name from the shape of the web that they weave. Since there are several varieties of ...

A team of University of Queensland researchers has revealed why male funnel web spiders develop much deadlier venom than their female counterparts. Led by UQ's Associate Professor Bryan Fry, the team ...

It feels like one of the first things anyone learns about Australia is that we have two of the most deadly spiders in the world: redbacks and funnel-webs. And funnel-webs have always been the scarier ...

Maggie Hardy receives funding from The University of Queensland and UniQuest Pty Ltd. There are more than 45,000 species of spiders, but only a handful are potentially dangerous to humans. Only two ...