Northern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider
This big shiny black spider lives high up in the trees of eastern Australia. Most funnel-web spiders live on the ground, but this one makes its home in old logs, branches and hollow tree trunks. It is the biggest of all the funnel-web spiders.
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Fun facts
It has been found in trees as high as 30 metres above the ground.
It cannot jump, even though it is big and fast.
Males wander around at night after rain in the warm months, looking for females.
Its back can have a purple or plum colored shine.
Most asked questions about Northern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider
?How big is the northern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider?
Its body is 4 to 5 centimetres long, which makes it the biggest funnel-web spider.
?Where does it live?
In trees in eastern Australia, hiding in rotting logs, branches and hollow trunks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hadronyche formidabilis
- Named by
- Rainbow, 1914
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Atracidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Atracidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Northern Rivers funnel-web spider, Northern funnel-web spider
Where the facts come from
- Hadronyche formidabilis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Toby Hudson. CC BY-SA 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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