Our buildings and gardens are ideal for spiders because they provide food and and anchorage for their webs or soil for their tunnels.
Australia has poisonous spiders and they include the Sydney Funnel Web Spider, the Northern Rivers Funnel Web Spider, Redback Spiders, the Mouse Spider, Wolf Spiders, the Black House Spider and the White-tailed Spider.
In Summer and in wet weather, male Funnel Web Spiders can wander indoors in search of a mate. The male is more venomous than the female.
Set up a guaranteed treatment to control spiders in a building and advise how you can help reduce future problems.
Wear gloves when gardening or handling soil.
Wear sensible footwear – particularly at night.
Be wary of wandering ground dwelling spiders after excavations or landscaping.
Avoid leaving toys out overnight. A spider may use these as a nest.
Bite and cause pain and even death. Luckily deaths are rare in Australia although there are many documented cases of people becoming very sick after being bitten by one of our toxic Spiders.
Have unsightly webs and can collect dust and debris.
Cause panic and alarm particularly around children.