Funnel web spiders?

Question

My fella is working away and he has asked me to ask this question, were he is working (UK) there is a swarm of funnel web spiders he wants to know if they are poisonous???

Answer 1

every spider in the world is poisonus its how they eat and disable prey. but only a few are deadly to humans none of them are in britain

Answer 2

It's more than likely that the webs are those of the Labyrinth Spider (Agelena Labyrinthica)

There's a good photo of one of their webs on this page http://www.uksafari.com/labyrinth.htm

They are not poisonous

Answer 3

The UK ones shouldn't be poisonous to humans.

Answer 4

I don't think so somehow.

Funnel webs ONLY live in the Sydney area of Australia.

We do not have any dangerous spiders in the UK.

Answer 5

There are no funnel-web spiders in the UK most people commonly mistake a common British house spider as one also their is a spider in England that makes a web like the funnel-web spider and it is called Tegenaria.

Answer 6

There are no poisonous spiders in the UK BUT a bite from one could give you anaphlyaxis if you are compromised.

Funnel webs indeed do come from Australia and other parts of Asia,so he go to work without having to wear a nappy now !!!!!!