Australia’s Scary Spiders
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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What Are the Most Venomous Spiders?
All spiders are venomous. The question is how does the venom affect you? Your species, humans, and you personally. We all individually could have anaphylactic shock to the proteins. Some of us would react really badly to a spider bite. In Australia, there are really only two species that are associated with death. A funnel web spider can be fatal but it's not absolutely deadly. Redback spiders interferes with heart rate and breathing. But healthy people, young people, they're also very, very painful.
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