Vet Adam Sternberg with a funnel web. This vet clinic in Brookvale is one of the drop off points for the public who want to help the antivenom projects. Picture: Annika Enderborg Source: News Limited <\/p>\n
The northern beaches is a hotspot for funnel web spiders, say experts. <\/p>\n
It follows an incident on Tuesday where a six-year-old girl became seriously ill after she was bitten on the finger by a male funnel web. <\/p>\n
Dozens of people have contacted the Manly Daily to say they have seen funnel webs in and around their homes recently. <\/p>\n
Girl, 6, rushed to hospital after deadly bite from rare funnel web spider in her northern beaches home <\/p>\n
Mike Gray, a retired spider specialist from the Australian Museum, said the whole of the North Shore was perfect funnel web territory. <\/p>\n
They like any forested region, especially where there is also rocky, sloping ground, he said. <\/p>\n
They like to make burrows under rocks, rotting logs and in tree roots, where the ground tends to stay moist. <\/p>\n
The funnel web spider which bit the little girl,6, in her northern beaches home this week. Source: Supplied <\/p>\n
He said the male funnel webs wander in summer and autumn and can often find themselves, accidentally in peoples homes. <\/p>\n
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