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| Black House Spider Badumna insignis. |
It is a smallish
spider which grows to a total legspan of about 3cms. I asked Robbie to identify
this one for us due to its superficial similarity to a funnel-web spider. While
the Black House Spider is venomous it is not considered dangerous, and is
described as being generally timid and unlikely to bite.
They tend to stick
to one little area and maintain a messy looking little web in a corner
of a building or among rough tree bark. The entire spider is covered with
hairs, and the rainbow colours visible on the lower half of the abdomen are
just a trick of the light – the flash from the camera refracting through the
hairs. In natural light the spider is a uniform dark grey or black.
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