Park staff in Australia are looking for an anonymous person who planted a huge spider on them bite a spider's nail. WFXR reports.
The park invites local residents to catch funnel-shaped water spiders and bring them back for an antidote program. Arthropods can be brought in containers to designated collection points. Then the spiders are milked, and the extracted poison is used to make an antidote. This drug saves up to 300 lives annually.
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After the next collection of containers from the collection points, the park staff found a giant spider. Its length was about eight centimeters, while the average size of these spiders varies from one to five centimeters. With two centimeter chelicerae (mouth appendages), a thrown arthropod can bite through a human nail.
“I have been working in the park for over 30 years, and have never seen such a huge funnel spider. We would like to know where she was found in order to get more such spiders, ”said park employee Michael Tate. He added that the park staff nicknamed the arthropod megapider.
The caught spider will not be milked, since it is a female, and in the park, poison is obtained only from males. The container that contained the unusual spider was unmarked. The park hopes that they will be able to contact the man who brought the spider.
Tate explained that if they can find more large spiders, they can get more poison and, as a result, make more antidote to save more people.
Earlier it was reported that the invasion of huge poisonous spiders from Asia began in the US state of Georgia. Millions of giant spiders, Trichonephila clavata, cover houses and power lines with cobwebs up to three meters deep.