I Vacuum Venom from the World's Deadliest Spider

Remember, the cure for an irrational fear of spiders is to simply move to Australia. You'll still be afraid of spiders, but now, it is perfectly rational.

Out of the top 10 most deadly critters in the world, Australia seems to have 12 of them.

The fact that no one died of that spider in 40 years, justify this guy's work. Thanks for doing what you are doing.

When I was in primary school (here in Sydney), I remember a boy in my class brought a funnel web in to school in a jar. He was passing the container around amongst the students before the teacher arrived. The boy explained that he'd killed the spider, so one brave kid opened the container. Teacher arrived and went absolutely mad. Boy insisted it was safe as he had killed the spider. Teacher asked him how he killed it and he said he drowned it. Teacher furious out of the sheer fear of what could have transpired yells that funnel-webs can survive underwater for more than 24 hours. Class was left inside and teacher went out to deal with the funnel-web. He came back to tell us that when he'd tipped it out, it was alive and well. Freaky as hell and only once more in my life did I see a teacher that angry. We were so lucky nothing happened to any of the kids. I believe the teacher killed the spider for the safety of the students, but these days we are encouraged to try to catch them safely for this anti-venom program.

My friend got bitten by one of these guys. I thought it was weird that a spider biologist would want to randomly bite another person, but people are into weird stuff.

The fact that no one has died from one in 40 years is pretty amazing

shoutout to the Australian Reptile Park for saving lives since 1981

Hey so the spider shown in the clip at 0:30 is a Funnel Weaver spider from the family Agelenidae and are not dangerous at all. The species this video is about is the Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Atrax robustus). They are not closely related. I hope this clears up any misinformation. Don't want people thinking the harmless Funnel Weavers can kill them.

42 years with no deaths is one heck of a success rate! They're doing great work!

Used to have these in the swimming pool constantly. Cleaning the pool filter was fun. Alsp jumping into the pool and coming up for air to then see a funnel web sitting on water surface near your face, start swimming backwards and the funnel web getting dragged toward you in your stream of water as you swim away from it, looked like it was chasing you. Childhood memories

In case anyone wonders: 13 deaths caused by this spider were recorded in total (all before 1981). Most people survive the bite even without antidote. I don’t want to talk bad about this project. Not at all. I just feel like these info were missing for a complete picture of the situation.

Hey Veritasium, the first images you showed of "funnel weavers" were actually hololena curta, a grass spider. They are funnel Weavers, apart of a large family of spiders, agelinidae. The Sydney Funnel Web spider is a different genus, and is not a grass spider :)

That animation of venom spreading through the body was very visceral

That’s incredible that not a single person has died in 40 years from a funnel web in Australia.

7:00 I like how they put this short animation in the video, they don't have to, but they still did it!

Having caught and donated 3 funnel webs to the Aus reptile park over the years, so awesome to see behind the scenes on what they do with them.

Veritasium the only guy who could convince me to sit though looking at spiders for 9 minutes

My dad once said: "There are some very nasty animals in planet earth, especially in hot areas, exept Australia, which has extra nasty animals."

Let's all appreciate the hard work and dedication of the cute little bunnies producing the antibodies! They are the real heroes in this story. Go bunnies! 😍🐇🐰

Thank you for bringing awareness about these organizations and people! Hope they can get more support from the Australian government and people!