SILVERBACK SPIDER SERIES

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Similar speciesīeing large, they can be confused with a tarantula but the spinnerets of silverbacks are hardly noticeable from above. One bite to a child in Perth caused a serious reaction. Short, open, often with a collar of leaves a short horizontal flask down the burrow is sealed by a thick door. They are found in both rainforest and open forest throughout Australia, except Tasmania. Diversity & distributionĪ number of species, most new, occur throughout Australia, several in Queensland. The 'feet' and underside of the legs is covered with dense hair that flashes iridescent in some light. Large brown to black spiders the darker males have a silver sheen of hair on their head, brown females have a golden sheen. Male Silverback, with silver sheen of hair on its head. Realistically such fast breeding rodents could easily outnumber and escape the spiders.Silverbacks Genus Idiommata, family Barychelidae The silver spider is a controversial topic, due to the way it has manipulated the poggle. Female silver garden spiders create greenish egg sacs that are suspended from their webs. Size: Female spiders are around 1.3 inches long (3.5 cm) while the males measure about 0.7 inches (2 cm). Yet” and “ Around the World in 80 minutes”. Physical Description and Identification Adults. Poggles appear in “ A Poggle’s not a pet.

SILVERBACK SPIDER SERIES

Silver spiders themselves are food for the Great blue windrunner, though it's possible the spiders feed on them too: the windrunner is small enough to be caught in the webs, though aside from the poggle it is unknown for certain what else the spider eats.Īppearances In the documentary In the manga In the animated series I know its hard to imagine because he looks like a frail young man But he has the strength of a spider.

Silver spiders have formed a relationship with the Poggle: a rodent and one of the few mammals still alive, sadly the poggles have been turned into livestock by the spiders, who feed them seeds from Grass trees caught in the webs, fatten them up and when this is done, the now plump-poggle is slain and devoured. The workers will spend the majority of their lives constructing webs in-between cave systems and collecting grass tree seeds for the poggles to consume, when the poggle reaches ideal weight, the plump rodent is slain and devoured by the spider queen allowing her to access the hormones from the poggle's bloodstream of which she acquires. The silver-spider behaves rather like hymenoptera (a large order of insects comprising bees, wasps and ants): being ruled by a queen with the majority being workers. Like their ancestors they do possess venomous-fangs. In a few hours they will complete the web, which looks as though it is made up of smaller webs sewn together. Once this is completed, a bigger worker comes over, adds another line and walks out onto the thread. Their webs are the largest in the world: to build, the smallest and youngest workers (who are literally silver) parasail from one side of a gorge to the other with a dandelion and a silk-thread. The spiders shiny appearance is due to the relationships with ultraviolet-radiation in their high-altitude home. Males are called silverbacks because they are silvery coloured. This behavioral system advanced further following the relationship established between the spiders and the poggles a shy rodent of which the spiders 'farm' as livestock. There are over 150 species in the family Barychelidae in Australia. When Australia completed it's continental course, colliding with Asia and North America the spiders over millions of years, adapted numerous behavioral traits similar of that of the order hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants) being ruled by a queen with the majority of all spiders spending their lives as workers. The silver-spider, judging by its morhpology has likely descended from the redback spider or a similar species.

Silverback spider