Be spider wise
Australia is well-known for its creepy crawlie creatures – especially spiders. Two of those Aussie spiders – the Sydney Funnel-web and the Red Back – are rank among the top 10 most venomous spiders in the world. Others, such others the Mouse Spider, Trap door and White-tailed spider, can also deliver a damaging bite.
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There are many more that simply instill fear rather than injury. And you don’t have to look far to find one of these eight-legged creepy crawlies. The question most of us would ask – once we have finished retreating in fear – “is this one harmful.” Usually we never learn the answer.
That no longer needs to be the case after Aussie dad, Alan Henderson and his daughter Caitlin decided to climb under park benches and reach to the roof in toilet blocks to snap Australia's commonly-encountered spiders to help others identify the creepy crawlies.
The pair hit the beaten track from Melbourne to northern Queensland over six days to catalogue spiders for the new identification app, Spidentify. The app guides people to identify a spider against descriptions of more than 250 species, has a colour-coded danger rating and allows users to browse region, spider family and habitat.
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