FUNNEL WEBS In FLORIDA!? WHAT Is This???

[@fredgerd5811]

Thumbs up for Jack & Spencer teamup content! Love to see it.

[@stuartpearce2997]

As someone who has always been fascinated with spiders, lizards, snakes, and other feared wildlife, I really enjoy these vids. And seeing Jack working with Spencer was really cool, too! Thanks, guys, another great one!

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jasonv.9015]

Lol, what a character Jack is, always having fun and making it fun to learn. He reminds me of Steve Irwin the American version. Nobody else has shown genuine passion for and a appreciation of the creatures of earth

[@BbBb-t5y]

I've lived in FL for all 22 years of my life and have always had such a fascination for all of the diversity and wildlife here, but it seems like all the information i could find online was always difficult to find, full of conflicting info, or just hard to read. It always makes me so excited to find videos like these, especially when i find a spider i recognize!

[@emilybrackett2840]

3:36 they're smaller than I thought. Don't get me wrong. They're decently sized but they're not as big as tarantulas or trapdoor spiders.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They do get bigger

[@RafaelSilva-ih9wg]

I just found out your channel, and I'm glad I did, I love spiders and you're very entretaining to watch. Love from Portugal

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Glad to have you! Welcome!

[@dnimon936]

As an aussie i can say that "florida funnel web" is about 1/10th the size of a sydney funnel web

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

lol they can get a little bigger but the Sydney funnel web definitely dwarfs them. I’m going to Oz next month though so I’ll be filming the big kahunas soon.

[@ConnorShockey-v4z]

thats not a funnel web thats a purseweb spider

[@logansorenssen]

It is similar in size to some of the smaller Atracids - Illawarra wisharti has a body length of about 15mm, which is similar to that purseweb there. OTOH, one of the bigger ones, Hadronyche formidabilis, has a body length of 55mm or so, which makes it about the size of the Texas Brown tarantula. (A. robustus is kinda in the middle, on around the same order of size as some of the bigger NA wolf spiders but heavier.)

[@CalUTFB]

Its a purse web we got em in england. Very different to funnel web

[@barbabolafia]

I live in Central FL. One of these lives in the corner of my kitchen window! She's huge. The "funnel" part of the web goes right down into the round hole of the window frame in the center. We don't use insecticides so we let her be. She gets anything that comes to her web including roaches and flies. Thanks for your video. I couldn't figure out what species she is.

[@amgtarantulas]

Wow those are some awesome spoods! Very cool fangs❤

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They are!

[@NagoDagoe]

Im not affraid of spiders but this one backs me off. I found them occasionally doing lansdscaping jobs in Oz and I can tell you, theyre not holding back. Love your content man!!

[@AMF83]

Cool spider, I've never heard of it before. And your pretty funny to watch I appreciate the humor.

[@pistolpackinpete43]

Keep up the great work, Jack!!

[@nativewildman9335]

Very cool! One of my favorite spiders is the Orchard Orbweavers they are very beautiful spiders. They have a horizontal web that is pretty cool. I have handled them before. I'm in Kansas. I don't know if we have any purse webs here. I know we have black widows and brown recluses and possibly the brown widow. Great video, my dude .

[@DavidDrew-n6z]

Back in the 1970’s I captured one of these in Indiana. Fascinating arachnids. She hatched out a last of babies which I released in the same area.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Very cool!

[@shanabanana1]

I'm learning I figured it would hurt to ask. Thank you so much . I understand more now.

[@TheOregonChristian]

The duo I never expected!! I love seeing up and coming channels collab with each other 💪🏽

[@lizarrrdbeth]

Talk to the screen...um NO!! I am backing away!!! They are lovely from a distance!

[@the_reptirage]

I need more friends to go herping in Florida 😮 cool find!

[@thr0w407]

Wow, cute little tanks!

[@itsOnMARS2023]

These guys are in the UK as well! A protected species in England if I may add. Very close cousins of the Mouse Spiders in Australia and of course the more toxic Funnel Webs!

[@ThePollaton]

Really? I’ve never seen one. Are they down south? If not I’ll have to start looking for them 😍

[@itsOnMARS2023]

@@ThePollaton They are indeed, I watched a video on KZbin not long ago a guy found one in Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton. Keep in mind they are a protected species

[@logansorenssen]

@@itsOnMARS2023 Do you know the scientific name of the UK species? I'd read somewhere - can't recall where - that the Andalusian funnel-web (Macrothele calpeiana) had been introduced to the UK, but I'm not sure if that's true, or if there's another native mygalomorph too.

[@itsOnMARS2023]

@@logansorenssen Yup its Atypus affinis

[@DoomGhost001]

​@@logansorenssenSomeone found one in Cornwall. They thought it was a Sydney Funnel-Web, but from the pictures a lot of people said it looked like a Spanish/Gibraltar Funnel-Web. Still, it's scary these invasive species are setting up shop over here. We already have the Green-Fanged Tube Web and the Wasp Spider (which I've had the good fortune to see and photograph in a local park). I would love a pet Purse Web knowing they are related to Tarantulas!

[@sabbys7750]

Those are cool looking even though i still think that they are creepy crawlies!! 🤣🤣 Thanks Jack for sharing!! Up until i started watching your videos..I couldn't even be near one without getting all weirded out. Now i can see the beauty in them. 🤓🤓👍👍

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Thanks for watching!

[@MotionlessKnight]

We have them here in Washington state, but I don't think ours get any bigger than the first one you found. They may, but I haven't seen one much bigger here. I always pick them up when I see them. Their shiny legs look neat. I don't seek them out, but I will find one crawling across the ground sometimes outside.

[@taransingh9548]

Hi Jack. I would like to wish you a early Merry Christmas

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Thank you! Same to you!

[@joehuestis652]

Gorgeous Spider, Jack. I actually had no idea the US was home to such an interesting species like that. As always Jack, stay safe.

[@plutoofdeath1013]

Purseweb Spider - Sphodros rufipes. I live in Florida I have them everywhere by the hundreds. Tried to keep some but I end up letting them go

[@Coasterbeing]

Awesome spider presentation.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@TheMatzo83]

Happy Holidays to you and your team! Thanks from Germany for your cool videos!

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Danke!

[@tylergreenwood9689]

Now I can’t wait for warmer weather! I’m in Lakeland Florida! I wonder how large their distribution is down here, or if we have them in Lakeland🧐

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They’re fairly common throughout the state but it might take a while to find a nice pocket population!

[@tylergreenwood9689]

@@JacksWorldofWildlife Awesome thank you! I spend tons of time out in the woods so hopefully I’ll get lucky and find some! Circle B Bar Reserve is loaded with regal and bold jumpers, green lynx spiders, and banana weavers so I’m gonna check that area out first!

[@Stephan0]

Cool you'd be delighted with the funnel webs in my neck of the woods

[@HarryToeface]

*Hoho hahaha! I came to the right place today Jack! That's a, lemme tell ya somethin...Thats a nice spider you got there!* Wait!!! Why did this video start making me talk like an italian Grandpa from New York when i saw that honker spider?! What is this witchcraft ? 😅 I hope you're having an excellent holiday Jack! Excellent video as always!

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😂 glad you enjoyed it!

[@AJPennyPacker2]

He won’t take a break, won’t take a breather 😂

[@juan2three6]

8:42 Jack; “and i know what youre thinking, whoa is that a funnel web spider?”.. what i was actually thinking; “EAT IT”

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😂

[@emilybrackett2840]

I never knew some mygalomorphs live in Florida. Florida is like the Australia of the US, but that doesn't mean I don't want to go there anymore. I still dream of going there. Literally I've wanted to go ever since I was five. I'm desperate. I got all excited when KIDZNEWS said that Australia tickets are back.

[@pauljones8054]

Great catch Jack looks like a smaller version of Atrax robustus educational and enjoyable thanks for that keep it up mate

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Right? Mini funnel webs right here in the states!

[@garymaidman625]

Not to mention the closely related Illawarra wisharti, also known as the Illawarra funnel web, or the other species in the Atrax genus.

[@MrVietDonger-y9l]

We have similar species found in the Wet Pacific North West

[@JonBonesJones84]

So what is going on with your hunt for wasps or other insects that sting? Have you been medically prohibited from being stung ?

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

I have done just about every one I wanted to do. There’s a few left but I’m mostly finished with doing them.

[@johnholmes6897]

That's a very cool looking spider

[@anthonylabeau6159]

Good stuff, thanks from Fairbanks Alaska.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Thanks for watching!

[@clintkram8996]

I found a huge one in GA in my drive way and kept it as a pet for a week and let it go. It was so defensive and intimidating, I’m sure it would have killed my tarantula.

[@clintkram8996]

The one I found was way larger then that one tho

[@MyWildBackyard]

Heh heh heh Jack that's a nice spidah yeh got theah

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😉😉😉

[@jackswildworld]

Another great video in the books!

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Yessir 😎🫡

[@ThePollaton]

Spencer and jack, and of course let’s not forget our cameraman Gabe. Trio of experts ❤❤❤

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Actually my cameraman Nick was with us on this trip. Gage hasn’t been available for the last few trips!

[@ThePollaton]

@@JacksWorldofWildlife oh no nevermind. I’m sure nicks an expert too Merry Christmas 🤶 x

[@emilybrackett2840]

@@JacksWorldofWildlife wait. You have two cameramen? Cool.

[@roncozad4108]

I am lust totally amazed with the race car look of these spiders I think of an F1 Race Car.!.

[@joeylowell293]

I live in Oregon and a few summers ago when i was camping i saw a good size spider that i have never seen before and it looked like a funnel web but it was dark brown with a red tint to it it had big fangs and was not happy at me looking at it so i let it on its way. Do you know what type of spider it may have been?

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Maybe a trapdoor or wafer lid spider!

[@lellamas2778]

it's so cute! I can't say funnel webs are cute. Always been terrified of them since childhood. Australian's gotta educate themselves about all the way to die :P

[@TankieBoi]

I think these purseweb spiders are real cuties, poking their oversized fangs out of their little hidey holes

[@denisebethany5691]

Adorable.

[@juan2three6]

Iconic duo

[@charlesrowe9183]

I saved a video of a big black funnel web spider, that was about 2 inches from me, and it moved fast

[@JerryWasARaceCarDriver]

They look like cute little baby spiders with those short little legs.

[@DoomGhost001]

Looks like a mini tarantula!😂 We get them in the UK, but never realised they were a tarantula cousin. Makes me want one as a pet, like a 'starter' tarantula.😂 They are protected here, like the Spanish/Gibraltar Funnel-Web (which I see has made it to these shores too, though I don't know how wide spread they are). We have two invasive species that have set up shop successfully, the Green-Fanged Tube Web (which looks really cute) and the gorgeous Wasp Spider (I saw and photographed one of these in a local park. Very beautiful markings).

[@hackedbyBLAGH]

Excellent

[@kellyhenderson9972]

We even have them in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

[@napoleon6221]

I always love it when Jack brings us a nice thicc female 😂😂. This one is a very cool spider, I’d say probably in the top five the mini funnel web look is so neat lol.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Very cool!

[@garymaidman625]

There is also a version in South America as well, Colombia to be exact. They are known commonly as the Colombian curtain web spider or the Colombian funnel web spider and are also a type of mygalomorph.

[@Geoplanetjane]

I think we have these in northern Cali.

[@yuumijungle548]

they look like baby funnel webs, kinda cute xD

[@sueannsouza690]

Shes so cute

[@stevenshepard2381]

Those things are what nightmares are made of!

[@chrisfromsouthaus2735]

Mygalomorphs trigger some sort of deep-seated, primitive psychological response in me. I keep Funnel Webs, as well as Aussie elapids, including an Eastern Brown/P. Textilis, and the Funnel Webs can make my hair stand on end, in a way that snakes just can't. I have an enormous 75mm Hadronyche Versuta, that is unbelievably strong, for an artherpod. If she ever latched on, you would have a difficult, and traumatic time trying to prise her off.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😂 yeah they’re definitely an intimidating group.

[@jazzybelle9515]

I didn't know it was Tiny, I thought it was a tarantula at first but it is a good sized spider ❤

[@garymaidman625]

Of course not all tarantulas are massive spiders, there are many species of tarantula that grows no bigger than this spider.

[@jazzybelle9515]

@@garymaidman625 cool

[@dawncaron3960]

Good way to trixk people into watching to hope to see a funnel web

[@OnlyGamingClips]

Still haven't seen someone take a bite from a purseweb, I imagine they can't be that dangerous right?

[@burthuffman2802]

Very cool , Jack. What are the two little things on her butt? Like a tail? Thanks for the good stuff.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Her spinerets!

[@FinalStage4L]

I wonder if we have those in Texas that’s a awesome specimen

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

We do have pursewebs in east texas!

[@FinalStage4L]

@@JacksWorldofWildlife I’m like right in the middle of Texas so I need to go find one of those

[@whitneyboyd7801]

Omg! This is nightmare stuff!!

[@yuumijungle548]

i think its not aggressive because its so tiny, actual funellwebs are so big that they feel more confident, this little guy can only lose if he tries to attack.

[@edwardvazquez2637]

Okay that spider is cute AF

[@joeylowell293]

Hi jack this was a great video i was wondering about the venom of this spider if bitten what kind of damage will it do to you? also is that the way to tell a true spider from the others by looking at how they bite? if i understood you right a true spider bite sideways or its fangs are sideways right?

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

It’s unlikely to be a serious bite. Likely just stings a bit. The Mygalomorph spiders are generally much more robust than the true spiders. True spider fangs pinch inwards like pliers and the mygalomorph fangs pinch downward like hooks

[@jaytee5913]

That is a monster lol the spider is like 😢...my home I just bought it

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😂 luckily they repair their webs all the time and quite quickly!

[@jaytee5913]

@JacksWorldofWildlife I know lol I was just thinking of the housing market these days haha. Love your vids, I've been studying arachnids since I was a kid and would love to be able to do your work. Stay weird and awesome!

[@davealaya]

Jack : We are professionals, do NOT replicate what you see at home. FLORIDA MAN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😂😂😂

[@prophez23]

It's hard for me to say this because I love so many different kinds of spiders but I truly think that these purse web spiders are the cutest little spiders I've ever seen! I think I would have to take her home with me and keep her. She's a little darling 😊 Thank you Jack and Spencer for showing her to us.

[@ThePunisher-si8ex]

Yes but yo mama

[@Redmist-se7ld]

Didn’t know where funnel web spiders are in the US 😮 woah

[@ConnorShockey-v4z]

no, funnel webs are found in Australia

[@Psvr2Villain]

Not a bad intro, friend

[@PianoMan-hx3ev]

Are the funnel webs tornadic?

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They are a tube that goes straight down underground and has a rounded bottom.

[@denofearthundertheeverlast5138]

Waiting on a venom test with this species....

[@garymaidman625]

I prefer the term 'modern spiders' to the term 'true spiders'. Araneomorphs are evolutionarily modern spiders, as opposed to the evolutionarily archaic mygalomorphs. For those that don't know, araneomorph translates to spider shape, whereas mygalomorph translates to mouse shape.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Yeah I agree!

[@gregd4633]

This is why I love the comment section, because people like you educate me on different topics that I never thought about. Yeah I know a lot of comments can get pretty nasty, but that never overwhelms comments that’s really educational like yours. My son caught one while we were at our vacation home in Florida after Hurricane Idalia hit last year. Don’t know if the hurricane drove the spider out of its home, but my son caught it while he was outside doing kids stuff. He came in the house with a bottle talking about he caught a Sydney Funnel web, I didn’t know what he was talking about but when I saw the fangs lol 😂

[@garymaidman625]

@@gregd4633 I'm glad there are people who appreciate the information and don't try to ridicule or humiliate. These platforms have the potential to be collaborative educational tools, however, more often than not, they are turned into toxic cesspools of trolling and humiliating. I like learning and giving any knowledge I have, I also like debating with people, as long as it's civil. And spiders are well worth learning about, they are fascinating creatures. I'm actually Australian and so it would be a Sydney funnel web spider I'd be likely to see. If I had to guess at the spider you and your son saw, it would have been a purseweb spider, which does look like a Sydney funnel web spider.

[@gregd4633]

@@garymaidman625 Yes sir the spider my son caught last year was the purse web spider, I had to google it when my son caught it because I never seen a spider like that before. I know about the *”Carolina Wolf Spider”* and the orb spider but never saw a purse spider until last year. It’s fangs is almost the size of its whole body lol 😂. But we released it back into the wild, far away from where our vacation village is located. Thanks for sharing your expertise and knowledge, and I totally agree with you in regards to the commentary section

[@garymaidman625]

​@@gregd4633thank you for your kind comments. As far as the purseweb spider goes, you are not alone in not knowing about it. I had previously heard about it but didn't know much about it, it was thanks to Spencer at MyWildBackyard, a regular collaborator with Jack on this channel that I learned a lot more about the beautiful spider. If you haven't checked out the MyWildBackyard channel, do yourself a favour, Spencer is very informative. It's content creators like Jack and Spencer that are invaluable in showing that while spiders and other invertebrates are potentially dangerous, if you show them respect, they will leave us alone. 99% of invertebrates aren't aggressive and won't attack us for no reason. Venom is a precious commodity that takes up a lot of resources to produce and because of that, they don't want to have to waste their venom on us, they would much rather use it on their prey.

[@catatestrophe7499]

Six eyed sand spider when Jack?

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Whenever I can get out to look for them!

[@jakerubino3233]

7:12 a what? 😂

[@hackedbyBLAGH]

Some more hands off natural observations, just follow it

[@Garbagefly]

What species?

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Sphodros abboti the blue purseweb

[@Gislileet]

4:40 😂😂

[@napsta2776]

👍

[@Maxtyur]

In Sydney we call them Sydney funnel Web spiders um what was the point of this comment um sorry drank to many rums .❤

[@rexmasters1541]

Look at the Utah Mouse Spider it is the size of your hand and is a true funnel web with extremely toxic venom.

[@DoomGhost001]

I wanted to see you rebuild her house after you wrecked it.😂

[@shanabanana1]

Old world?

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

Terminology. Old world refers to Asia, Africa and Europe and the new world refers to the Americas. Australia is its own thing apparently lol

[@shanabanana1]

I can imagine Australia would be one of its own. I collect reptiles but am looking to home a jumping spider to ease myself into not being scared of them

[@shanabanana1]

Thank you so much for your channel. Huge fan. My daughter and I love you. She wants to be an entomologist.

[@johnruiz6743]

Are you taking a bite from a large one? 🤔🤣

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

😳

[@trevorstevenson4038]

Run for your lives!

[@trevorstevenson4038]

Oh I thought the Sydney Funnel Webs were invading Florida.

[@anthonylabeau6159]

I eat those for lunch

[@ItIsWhatItIs8120]

Well then your looking for a dandy longleg because America's spider has to be large without inflicting any damage and he meets in the damp darkness of the buildings basements exchanging prey like it's the stock market 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@westcoast8506]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jackfletcher1000]

Well my name os also and I shit myself at the very sight of these Alien creatures

[@lamarhenley363]

I like your shows but why rip up its home

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

They rip their homes every time they feed. They repair them every night.

[@westcoast8506]

All the theatrical 💩 to much.

[@RobertWilliams-ox4hz]

Bite video 😅

[@hackedbyBLAGH]

No no

[@jerryallenvideographer7796]

Jack, you should reward your specimens with a tasty bug after each demonstration. How about a bite video?

[@kjstaff09]

Jack… do they have extra legs hanging out there butt?!?? 😢 I found them irrationally scary enough as is… 😅

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

lol no those are spinerets for making webs