Mouse Spider
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 Mouse spiders can be found in environments from deserts to eucalypt forests. They do not live in Northern Rainforests. The only place in Australia that you can't find a Mouse Spider is in Tasmania.
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 The average Mouse spider has a leg span that covers a 20 cent coin. They have eight small eyes that are spread across the front section of the head behind the fangs. The male Mouse spiders are black or dark blue where the females are only ever a black. They have large fangs compared to some spiders. They are 1 to 2.5 centimetres in length. |
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 A Mouse Spider has large fangs that can open wider like pincers and cross over. They are quite aggressive, they rear backwards and forwards opening and closing their fangs. When they get mad droplets of venom can be seen on the tip of their fangs. Their venom is equally as dangerous as a Sydney Funnel Web Spider. It is stronger than the female Sydney Funnel Web Spider and just about as strong as a male.
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 The victim will suffer the same symptoms as the Sydney Funnel Web Spider.
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 Some of the male Mouse spiders are called a Redheaded Mouse Spider because of their bright red eyes and their huge fangs.
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 A 19 month old girl was sitting on the kitchen floor in Mt Sylvia when a Mouse Spider bit her on her right hand. The bite mark was one centimetre apart. She was immediately taken to the Toowoomba General Hospital. Forty minutes after she was bitten she started vomiting and was in intense pain. By this time she was unconscious but she was screaming with pain. This was followed by muscle spasms, sweating and soon the whole body was shaking. She was given a Red back antivenom, but it failed. Next they tried Toowoomba Funnel Web Spider antivenom. Within 90 minutes there was a distinct improvement. It took her thirty-six hours to recover completely.
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