Found this bugger in my pool, how brave am I for saving his life??

Taking him up Sutherland hospital tomorrow for their antivenim thingy

Funny colour. Have never seen one that browny red colour before. Is it definitely one of them? Sure looks scary enough. What if it escapes in the car on the way to Sutherland?

That's a swimming pool?

No that's an old baked bean container

What kind of spider is that?

It's a member of the family Mygalomorphae, so called Bird-eating Spiders or Whistling Spiders.

Funnel-Webs belong in this family, and this may well be one.

Thanks. While being really hideous, it's still kinda neat.

Everything about it says funnel web, even had it rearing up, never seen pics of one that wasn't black though. Looked as dead as a dodo in the pool, good job I listened to them stories cos sure enough he sprung to life soon after. Wierd thing is I didn't shit myself as I would have with a huntsman

we have a positive I.D. a sydney brown trapdoor spider, not as nasty as a funnelweb, but big choppers none the less

Well bless his little cotton socks - it's a good job he met you and not me or else he'd have been going to the morgue not the hospital. I don't murder spiders often - but I reckon he'd have got it good and proper due to a severe case of mistaken identity!

I was once filling a bath in the uk with hot water and left it to fill, on returning to said bath found a large house spider curled up in water, which was scalding hot at about 70 degrees, must have fallen in poor thing, retrieved it and dont know why but I put it on tissue paper to dry it off and left it. It was there overnight and I swear this is true, the following morning i watched it 'wake up', stretch and wander off. Could not believe it, spiders are awesome.

400 million years of evolution has made them born survivors.