Sydneysiders can expect to see a lot more spiders, including deadly funnel-webs, as weather becomes perfect for arachnids.

These, and the similarly venomous mouse spiders (Missulena), are not ... metallic tube and trapdoor spiders are not (to use the Australian Spider Identification Page's own terminology) "medically ...

They are sometimes confused with mouse spiders, which are also (mostly) shiny black spiders with large fangs, but mouse spiders lack the distinctive funnel-shaped web. Australian funnel web spiders, ...

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web ...