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clive
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Andalusian Funnel-Web Spider – Macrothele calpeiana – La araña negra de los alcornocales
As they prefer little disturbed areas and are active at night you will not normally encounter these spiders. Be cautious if you are moving logs, rocks etc and see a sheet like web. If provoked these spiders will rear up in a threatening manner and can even give an audible hiss. unlike its famous close relative is the Australian funnel-web (Atrax robustus) whose bites can be fatal, Macrothele calpeiana venom is mild in comparison giving a localized but painful swelling.
Read more here. 🙂 https://wildsideholidays.co.uk/andalusian-funnel-web-spider-macrothele-calpeiana-la-arana-negra-de-los-alcornocales/
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clive
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Very interesting to see how humans continue to “relocate” species across the world…. “Urgent warning as Europe’s largest and most venomous spider found in the UK…..” The piece in the newspaper in the Daily Mail UK is pretty awful!
I think the paper should have stated that the spider was transported with olive TREES that were delivered to a garden centre. (It wasn’t inside a batch of tinned olives. jejejejeje.)
Take a trip on the Wildside!
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