{"id":29460,"date":"2025-01-16T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29460"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:46:07","slug":"sydney-funnel-web-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sydney-funnel-web-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Funnel-Web Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sydney Funnel-Web Spider:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists have named this 9-centimetre (3.54 inches) long species as <strong>Atrax christenseni.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170 km (105 miles) north of Sydney.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Characteristics<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a shiny, dark brown to black spiders with finger-like spinnerets (silk-spinning organs) at the end of their abdomen.<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>venom glands are a lot larger<\/strong> and its fangs are a lot longer.<\/li>\n<li>Only the male Sydney funnel-web, which carries a much stronger venom, is responsible for human deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat: <\/strong>They are found in bushy suburban areas, open and closed sclerophyll forests and woodlands, often on south or east-facing slopes or in shady gullies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is a funnel-web spider?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These are one of the most dangerous arachnids in the world.<\/li>\n<li>There are 36 described species of Australian funnel-web spiders and they are currently placed in <strong>three genera: Hadronyche, Atrax and Illawarra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The spider has venom, which is filled with 40 different toxic proteins.<\/li>\n<li>Its raw venom is the best way to <strong>make life-saving antivenom.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What&#8217;s the Most Poisonous Spider in the World?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>According to the Guinness World Records, the Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, is the most dangerous spider to humans in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/amp\/science\/story\/meet-big-boy-newly-discovered-spider-species-is-one-of-the-deadliest-in-the-world-2665068-2025-01-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Funnel-Web Spider  has earned the nickname &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170 km (105 miles) north of Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29460","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\/29460","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=29460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}