Australia Deadly Animals Spiders

The redback spider is a member of the black widow family and bites are very painful for a few days.

Australia deadly animals spiders. Australian spiders are not deadly. Redbacks can be found all over Australia in the cities and the Outback. Australia is home to worlds deadliest most venomous and ferocious predators Sharks spiders snakes and crocodiles top the list as the most feared animals But another animal.

A python one of Australias 170 snake species is seen strangling its roadside prey - a grey-headed flying fox Credit. Redback Spider - Latrodectus hasseltii. Only the female redbacks bite.

Antivenom is available so there were no deaths to report since 1956. The Australian funnel-web spiders are among the deadliest spiders in the world in the effect their bites have on humans and our primate relations although the bite has little effect on dogs and cats. Sydney funnel web spider.

Interestingly Australia only has 66 venomous species whereas Mexico has 80 and Brazil has 79. The box jellyfish marbled cone snail blue-ringed octopus and stonefish are in the top ten most venomous animals of the world and all live in Australia. This small spider 15 cm loves to hide in cool humid placesincluding under rocks logs or in your shoes.

Spiders will only bite if provoked. These are the funnel-web and the redback spider but no one has died from a bite from one of these in nearly 40 years and anti-venom is available for both species. There are over forty species of this venomous spider picture above.

The top 5 deadliest spiders in Australia are the Sydney funnel-web spider the northern tree funnel-web spider the smaller southern tree funnel web spider the Redback. They are small only between 1cm and 5cm in length but small packages contain mighty punches. Yet Australia has the ones with the most deadly venom.