What do funnel web spiders look like?

Answer 1

Funnel Web spiders are black with a dull reddish tinge to the under legs and abdomen, they have a hard ecto skeliton and two disticnt spinnerets at the rear of the abdomen. they are about 5cm long and the fangs can be seen as they rear back to stike. the red colouring becomes more prominent in the strike position.

Answer 2

Imagine that you went to the dollar store and bought a big plastic funnel. then you cut out 2/3 or more from the wide end of the funnel down to the sort of tube part of the funnel that usually gets stuck into a bottle. Now you have a plastic model of the kind of thing that a funnel web spider would make out of silk. It sits on the grass about the way your plastic funnel would lie on the grass. The spider lives at the end of the tube part of the funnel in a hideout down in the grass, and it runs out onto the concave part of the funnel to grab any prey item that has the bad luck to trespass on this lady's astroturf front yard. These spider webs look like the finest quality of silk handkerchief.