• Site Map
  • FSG
Free Call 1800 650 077
Piranha Insurance Brokers
  • HOME
  • ABOUT US
    • OUR TEAM
    • AFTER HOURS
    • PIRANHA RACING
  • INSURANCE SERVICES
    • PERSONAL INSURANCE
    • REAL DEAL MOTOR SPORT INSURANCE
    • BUSINESS INSURANCE
  • NEWS & MORE
    • PIRANHA NEWS
    • RESIDENTIAL INSURANCE CALCULATORS
    • VIDEOS
    • DOCUMENTS
  • CONTACT US
  • Search
  • Menu Menu

Creepy crawly spider facts

June 30, 2017/in Latest News/by admin

DID YOU KNOW?

  • You are rarely more than a few metres from a spider. And that one acre of ground is home to about a million spiders!
  • Around most homes you will find about 20-50 different species of spider. But in any bushland area, there is usually around 100-120 species!
  • There are around 10,000 different species of spiders in Australia, but only around 3,500 have names – but don’t be alarmed, most are too small to bite.
  • And it is the unexpected direction that spiders move in that generates the fear response in humans.
  • The majority of spiders will run away from wind/blowing.
  • If you have a 4WD watch out – spiders (as well as scorpions, cockroaches, lizards and snakes) are attracted to an idling 4WD diesel.
  • Speaking of cars…although huntsmen spiders have a weak venom, they are responsible for the most human deaths through car crashes (as they scramble across the windscreen).
  • Spider silk is easily dissolved with household bleach
  • Despite popular belief, daddy long legs spiders are harmless..
  • Male spiders look and behave like females until they are adult.
  • No Australian spider (including the white tail spider) has caused flesh-rotting.
  • An Australian jumping spider, Portia, has telephoto vision second only to the eagles.
  • Most spiders have eight eyes but are basically blind.
  • Spiders often consume their webs at nights end and then recycle the silk, through their gut, in about 20 minutes.
  • Most of the white on a spider is formed by the white guanine in the folds of the gut
  • Spider silk is highly elastic so when it reaches its most stretched point in the Spiderman movies, it should pull him straight back to base, not act like a rope.
Share this entry
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • Share on Pinterest
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Share on Vk
  • Share on Reddit
  • Share by Mail
https://www.piranhainsurance.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/spider.jpg 484 587 admin https://www.piranhainsurance.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Piranha-logo-RGB-01-002-300x121.jpg admin2017-06-30 08:00:292017-05-29 04:54:21Creepy crawly spider facts

MEMBER OF

National Insurance Brokers Association
Council of Queensland Insurance Brokers

PART OF

CONTACT US

Phone 07 4927 8400
Free Call 1800 650 077

Po Box 1251
Rockhampton Q 4700

VISIT US

PIB Investments Pty Ltd T/As Piranha Insurance Brokers | ABN 61 638 023 211 | Corporate Authorised Representative No. 1281593 | Corporate Authorised Representative of Aviso Select Pty Ltd T/As Aviso Select | ABN: 37 097 567 710 | AFSL No: 239049

General Disclaimer: The information on this website is to be regarded as general advice. Your personal objectives, needs and financial circumstances were not taken into account when preparing this website content. We recommend that you consider the suitability of this general advice, in respect of your objectives, financial situation and needs before acting on it. You should obtain and consider the relevant product disclosure

© Copyright - Piranha Insurance Brokers | Website by
  • Site Map
  • FSG
  • Contact Us
Travel smart and travel safeCar thefts on the rise
Scroll to top