[listening to your description of funnel-web spiders] Damn, he's just like me.

All spiders belong in S Tier because they're Super Cute.

Im glad Im not alone in seeing all the myriad of ways all spiders hunt with the aid of silk or other techniques, and realizing "wow, tarantulas really just threw all their XP into 'shoving things into mouths' " 😂

Cane toads, house cats, and rabbits are totally unimpressed by Australia's "OP" wildlife.

Dude, the shade thrown at funnel webs cracked me up. 😂 Poor little guys, they're doing their best, okay!?

I’ll forgive you for not including Lycosids as you were short on time. I love our Wolf Spiders, we have some really diverse genera here in Australia (looking at you Hoggicosa bicolor). The only thing I think I would change is to shuffle trapdoors up a bit higher. Carried to a higher tier by the agility and vertical prowess of the Barychelids. Another brilliant video mate!! Top shelf :)

Another brilliantly made video mate, entertaining and informative as always. Thanks 👍

Information and subject matter is amazing, jokes got me cracking up- quick sub. Cheers mate from Canada

Pholcids are such underrated spiders, good on you for putting them in A tier! Couldnt agree more.

Nice video. I hope you will get more recognition, because you really deserve it. If it's not too much hassle for you, I'd love to see chapters in this video.

I think the funnel webs are cute :)

I once saw a tiny spider hunting tiny ants. Once he saw his prey, he would run around him with great speed, emitting a web as he went. The ant, no matter what direction he would go in would get caught up in the web and tangle himself. The spider would run around him some more, emitting more silk, and eventually, when the ant was well caught, he would go in for the kill. Don't know what kind of spider it was. Do you know?

Good stuff as always,…… 😂 Your approach using humor helps to break through fear/dislike barriers. “ Idiot with a Huntsman on his face “ “ Really fucking big, and can throw his weight around “ I have a hard time trusting people who aren’t willing to occasionally use “ words “ Thanks for the work 👍

Absolutely love your videos! I've never noticed before, but on this one every now and again you say a word that sounds like it's in a broad yorkshire accent! 😂

In Sweden we barely have any spiders that would even get through human skin, most are small and harmless. Yet I have always been afraid lol, so here I am. Tarantulas were actually my intro because theyre so different from anything we have here, we only have one type of huntsman, Micrommata Virescens, leaf spiders basically

I absolutely love huntsman spiders, such fascinating creatures that I can't gush about to my friends without getting weird looks, yes I am the "weirdo" in my group that isn't afraid of the local mini wildlife and I'll keep that title with pride! I've been not afraid, but curious about them since childhood and that part of me never went away as I grew up.

The Pholcidae made it to A tier. You are now one of my favorite people on earth. :D

I'm sure you meant, _"At least then there's a chance that'll lead to something_ (re) _productive."_ 🤘😁🎸

Our birds are the only thing I think people should be scared of in Australia. The kite that sets forest fires when it's hangry, the cassowary which is basically a velociraptor, the emus that won the war against an armed militia, or even just the magpies that cause us to have to make weird bike helmets. (this is all a little hyperbolic still as Australia's deadliest animals are people by far followed by horses and bee allergies)

Regarding orb weavers, here in America the largest species locally makes an equally impressive large web nightly (they are nocturnal hunters) during the warm months of the year. After about three or four captures of prey and amazingly fast wrap ups by the resident big beautiful female spiders in silken cocoons before injecting venom, the web itself is usually trashed to pieces by all the struggling but that doesn't matter, she's captured plenty of food. A totally new web is spun the next night. But sometimes the hunt is unsuccessful, the web remains untouched, and the very hungry spider is still in the center awaiting a meal in the early daylight hours (most spiders hide away from the remaining web during daylight). Or occasionally spiders that are too eager spin their webs early (perhaps due to not feeding the night before) and can be found in the center of new webs in the late afternoon before nightfall. A wasp that specializes in preying on spiders can commonly be seen inspecting every orb web in existence during these daylight hours. She flies and hovers within an inch of the web but never touches it or gets captured. When she sees a spider in the center she quickly pounces on it, stings it, and takes it to her nest. Even though the spider probably weighs more than her she has no difficulty flying away with her prize. After she seals the tombs made of mud, her eggs will hatch and her larvae will feed on the still living bodies of these stung paralyzed spiders! I've seen these wasps hunt and sting orb weavers on several occasions, macabre and fascinating to observe!

Yeah, I've always though Oz's spiders a bit over-rated. But then I live in the swampy jungle of south Louisiana where we have spiders the size of a dime whose webs can catch and hold baby lizards 3-4" long for the tiny spiders to feast on. And we have everything from them up to (rather small in the great scheme of things) tarantulas, plus scads of objectively dangerous things like black widows and brown recluses, and also our own funnel web species. But the alligators get all the hype in terms dangerous wildlife and mostly they're no threat at all, just swimming away from people.

Yeah, cellar spiders (the actual name of Pholcidae) are no joke. I remember when I gave juvies some pretty sizeable ants and they took them down with no problem.

👍👍👍 If only my glacier-scoured land had a shadow of Australia's arachnid diversity!

Props to you for another proper debunking video to come up against these over the top exxagerating myths about Australian fauna. Btw, it was clear from the beginning which grade the huntsmen would get, since you´re their number one fanboy.^^

Love your videos man, you helped me overcome my reservations about my own (admittedly pathetic) native spiders.

Im fully expecting you to give all our little multi-legged friends an F (oops... D even...) 😂 You know... silly post aside from me; I really love channels like yours, I genuinly look at spiders in such a different way. They are just little animals going about their lives trying their best to have a meal and avoid being eaten. They mean us precisely no harm at all do they? ❤

Awesome list! I love coming across other spider enthusiasts that understand how mediocre mygalomorphs are compared to other spiders. They're from a bygone era.

maybe Australian huntsman spider are more docile than the huntsman that can be found in asia like heteropoda species, it hard to handle them even adults that are 4inch long or more, can be so fast

I think, besides the memes, Australia gets its reputation for dangerous wildlife because of its venomous snakes and because of how alien it is to most Europeans and Americans. That which is unknown is often feared.

The man has spoken. This is official.

Something Ive learned is that pretty much every scary Austrailian animal, we have a version of here in Florida. Spiders, venomous snakes, big crocodilians. Except Florida also has bears, panthers, the skunk ape, and AIDS monkeys, so Id say that we are actually scarier overall.

Great stuff here, my friend. I am afraid of spiders, I won’t deny that. But, my fear has more or less transformed into one that has me obsessed with learning and interacting, with just about every species I come across, both in person, and remotely from a computer, or other video capable device. A good comparison to describe where I stand with my fear, would be Bruce Wayne, choosing to use his fear of bats, as his calling card.

Living in Indonesia since 20 years and I got my fair share of weird and painful encounter in my garden from small wasp and bees to centipedes and assassin bug (not sur if they are assassin bug but they look like and the sting is painful for few hours), but worst one was a giant black hornet, this beautiful bug put me to tears sting me as few times in my under arms 12 years ago, 3 days of fever and strong pain, tough me to stay away from them when I see one In my garden I just go read a book inside and come back when he’s gone hahaha

Is Thomisidae as much as a taxonomic mess over there as it is here in Argentina? Even though they're incredibly common you can go to a nature reserve next to a city and find undescribed species (the genus Misumenops is an example of that). BTW, I've got a handful of Badumna longinqua individuals living in a wall across the street from my flat. Somehow they made their way to Buenos Aires and they're thriving. Should we import white-tails? (JK, that kind of thing never work as intended)

You crack me up .!

Awesome video as always but im so surprised you don't have any footage on our redback spiders. If i did a spider tier they woild be up there with the huntsmans and golden orbs. Also now owning a few species of funnel web spiders i truly understand your bulling of these spiders

Arachnids are interesting creatures. Awsome video

What the heck happened to the redback? I understand you were staying aware of video length but it's probably the most iconic of all Australian spiders, and you can't possibly say you've never encountered one, because they are everywhere and thrive in urban environments. Another notable omission were wolf spiders.

Aussie spiders are so cute

Funnel Webs can’t even climb out of a plate

Awesome video. Watching while being watched by the Tegenaria domestica that made her web close to my Working desk.

Great vid mate. Do you have a link to the music you use in your videos? Thanks

They may be D-Tier in your list but the funnel webs are still the last species i would want to accidentally bump onto.

16:56 thats actually the funniest thing ive heard all week 😂

Where would you place Lycosids?

I so agree ppl love to act like australias bugs and arachnids are spawn of satan lol also do u plan on making anything on mantises in the future or r they not type of bug ur interested in?

What's truly remarkable to me is not how humans managed to live in Australia but rather how any wildlife manages adapt to Modern Australians.😂 Perhaps Kangaroo's evolutionary race towards body builders with roid rage was in part to keep up with the new overlords.

I will not go to Australia simply because I feel that Giant Razorback in the 80's... had kids I am sure of it.

happy to see the sparassids are right were they should be xD

Where would you put red backs?

America's tarantula, scorpion and centipede gang> 😎💯💯💯💯

I appreciate the lotr reference 😅

How can you leave out Redbacks?

You can't just omit Theridiidae >:( (where'd you place them btw)

My friends always balk when I say I would like to go to Australia because "everything there will kill you" 🤷

what do you coach

Can you please pick up and hold a male funnel web spider so I can be convinced that what you are saying is true. Much appreciated. Oh and yes please also can you go out into the bush and pick up a brown snake for me. You will be my hero if you do this and there will be merit in what you are saying if you survive this. Lots of love and good luck ☘

What about very old friends?

😂 it's like I heard a million delusions shatter across the web!

this is silly. Apart from anything, the funnel web is something unlike anything else in the world and can is feared and awed in the US.. The redback is almost identical in toxicity and appearance to other widows in the US and Asia so.. they're not really getting overshadowed by other spiders like them overseas, same with huntsmen- we have many species and some rate among the largest, and our nephilas are as good at hunting as the african counterparts, our wolf spiders can hold their own, our white tails are grappling heavyweights, our leaf curlers can survive almost anything thrown at them- even sub zero temperatures.. how about our st andrew's cross ones? which i've seen down full grown cicadas? there's few like them and the brown orbs in the world with the voracity and the sticky sheet-wrapping capability. white porch spiders- endemic to australia, can kill wasps and other biggish spiders even though they are almost as delicate as cellar spiders I really don't get what you're trying to say with both your tier and your intro because every sentence is over-egged.. but i appreciate your passion.

You missed the pelican spiders

Australia at the very least has more impressive arachnids and myriapoda than any other Anglo-Saxon inhabited land. And being as they blow our poor efforts in blighty out of the water and the US regards itself as the totality of the world. Its easy to see why Australia has this reputation online, whilst as you say theres some pretty hair raising things in south America and Aisia...

Smash

A spider big as a dinner plate? (looks at the Goliath) You aren't in Australia!

I always get upset when you rag on the funnel webs. It's not their fault they're so robustus. They can't control genetics. And they're good at what they do. Having said that, it's hard to disagree with your list, except for the exclusion of peacock spiders.