{"id":19697,"date":"2024-01-24T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19697"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:47:45","slug":"hercules-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hercules-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Hercules spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Hercules spider<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the largest male\u00a0funnel web spider ever recorded.<\/li>\n<li>Characteristics\n<ul>\n<li>The spider&#8217;s impressive size, measuring 3.1 inches from foot to foot.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with fangs capable of penetrating human nails, Hercules stands as the world&#8217;s most venomous arachnid.<\/li>\n<li>It represents the first male of such magnitude.<\/li>\n<li>Male funnel web spiders are known to be\u00a0more lethal than their female counterparts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Range:\n<ul>\n<li>These are commonly found in forested regions and gardens spanning from\u00a0Sydney, Australia, the coastal city of Newcastle in the north and the Blue Mountains to the west.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: The\u00a0warm and humid climate along Australia&#8217;s east coast provides an ideal breeding ground for funnel web spiders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a funnel-web spider?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are one of the\u00a0most dangerous arachnids in the world.<\/li>\n<li>There are 36 described species of Australian funnel-web spiders and they are currently placed in three\u00a0genera: Hadronyche, Atrax and Illawarra.<\/li>\n<li>The spider has venom, which is filled with\u00a040 different toxic proteins.<\/li>\n<li>Its raw venom is the best way to make life-saving antivenom.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Illawarra ?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a monotypic genus of Australian funnel-web spiders containing the single species Illawarra wisharti. It has only been found in the Illawarra region of southern New South Wales. It is a member of the subfamily Atracinae, the Australian funnel-web spiders, a number of whose species produce venom that is dangerous to humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/etimes\/trending\/recordbreaking-male-funnel-web-spider-hercules-at-australian-reptile-park\/articleshow\/107060777.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Meet Hercules, world\u2019s most poisonous spider<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hercules spider is the largest male funnel web spider ever recorded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}