Spider Chart
Black House Spider
Colour: Dark brown to black.
Body length: 15-18 mm
Bite: Toxic producing nausea, pain and sweating.
Garden Wolf Spider
Colour: Patterned in many shades of brown and grey.
Body length: 20-35 mm or more.
Bite: Toxic, causing pain, infection and skin lesions.
Redback Spider
Colour: Black with red, yellow or white marks on back.
Body length: 3-14 mm.
Bite: Very Toxic, attacks nervous system
Brown Trapdoor Spider
Colour: Browns, quite hairy.
Body length: 30 mm or more.
Bite: Not Toxic Inland varieties may be toxic.
Huntsman Spider
Colour: Great variety from red-brown, yellow-ochre, grey, dark and light markings.
Body length: 20 mm or more.
Bite: Not toxic but its bite causes local swelling, burning and itching.
Daddy-Long-Legs Spider
Colour: Light brown.
Body length: 7-9 mm. Very small body with long spindly legs.
Bite: Not Toxic, rarely bites.
Mouse Spider (male)
Colour:May be dark brown or coloured in red, yellow, blue.
Body length:20 mm or more.
Bite: Toxic causing local swelling, burning and itching.
Red Mouse Spider (male)
Colour:Male often red, yellow and blue.
Body length:20 mm or more.
Bite: Toxic causing local swelling, burning and itching.
Brown Recluse Spider
Colour:Light-Dark browns.
Body length:7-8 mm.
Bite: Very Toxic causing headaches, nausea and sometimes ulcerating lesions.
White Tail Spider
Colour: Grey to black, white mark on end of abdomen.
Body length: 12-15 mm.
Bite: Toxic causing local pain, blistering, ulcerating lesions and tissue necrosis. (death of tissue)
Funnel Web Spider (female)
Colour:Glossy black.
Body length:20 mm or more.
Bite: Very Toxic causing local swelling, burning and itching.
Golden Orb Spider
Colour:Colourfully banded legs, silver-grey body.
Body length:12-45 mm or more.
Bites: Non Toxic, rarely bites.
St Andrews Cross Spider
Colour:Banded legs and colourful body.
Body length:12-15 mm or more.
Bites: Non Toxic.
Please consider carefully before attempting your own pest control. Remember……