From the Most Harmless House Spider to the One That Can Bite Through Your Shoe
Benny Goes Wild
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There are spiders in your house right now. Most of them are on your side. A few are not.
Benny, now a pest control worker, goes room by room through 8 spiders, from the daddy long-legs in your living room to the funnel-web that walks out of a swimming pool.
0:00 Spiders in your house right now
0:47 Cellar spider
1:54 Jumping spider
2:59 Myth: do we swallow spiders in our sleep?
3:26 Wolf spider
4:24 Goliath birdeater
5:29 Black widow
6:40 Brown recluse
7:44 Brazilian wandering spider
9:04 Sydney funnel-web
10:30 The full ladder
Sources:
MythBusters (2004), daddy long-legs venom episode
Bertone et al. (2016), "Arthropods of the great indoors", PeerJ: spiders found in every one of 50 North Carolina homes
Vetter & Barger (2002), "An infestation of 2,055 brown recluse spiders and no envenomations in a Kansas home", Journal of Medical Entomology
Australian Reptile Park, funnel-web spider venom program; Sydney funnel-web antivenom (1981)
Guinness World Records, most venomous spider (Phoneutria)
Maria Sibylla Merian, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
Real photos used under Creative Commons licenses (Wikimedia Commons, iNaturalist), by:
CC BY-SA 4.0: SharonPapierdreams, hntro, Luis Fernández García, Didier Descouens, daSupremo, Pjt56, Classiccardinal, Mangodreads, Emman Asuncion Foronda, Ganjarmustika1904, Basile Morin, Matthew T Rader, Adrian Tync, Francisco de Menezes Cavalcante Sassi, Acabashi, Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, Myotus, Gionorossi, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton, DXR
CC BY 4.0: rober025, blazeclaw, Guillaume Delaitre, inbetweenbays, Tomasz Sienicki, Claude Kolwelter, Reuber Brandão, dreworme
CC BY 2.0: Maximilian Paradiz from Amsterdam, Nethe, arian.suresh from Chennai, India, Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, Thomas Shahan, Rison Thumboor from Thrissur, India, Virginia State Parks staff, Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia, Beau Giles
CC BY-SA 3.0: Opoterser, Ian Fieggen, Sabari Girisan M
CC BY-SA 2.0: Martin Cathrae, Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, Robert Lamb
CC BY 3.0: Chb, CSIRO
CC BY: Thomas Mesaglio
Public domain / CC0 photos also from Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist.
This video is for entertainment and education. If you think you were bitten by a dangerous spider, get medical help. Benny is a cartoon. No spiders (or exterminators) were harmed.
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spiders, most dangerous spiders, spiders ranked, sydney funnel web spider, brazilian wandering spider, black widow, brown recluse, goliath birdeater, wolf spider, jumping spider, daddy long legs, house spiders, spider facts, venomous spiders, animals ranked
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Benny survived (barely). Which spider lives in YOUR house right now? Drop it below. Next week: Benny becomes a night watchman with a different guard dog every night.
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From the Most Harmless House Spider to the One That Can Bite Through Your Shoe
Benny Goes Wild
7,985 views
There are spiders in your house right now. Most of them are on your side. A few are not.
Benny, now a pest control worker, goes room by room through 8 spiders, from the daddy long-legs in your living room to the funnel-web that walks out of a swimming pool.
0:00 Spiders in your house right now
0:47 Cellar spider
1:54 Jumping spider
2:59 Myth: do we swallow spiders in our sleep?
3:26 Wolf spider
4:24 Goliath birdeater
5:29 Black widow
6:40 Brown recluse
7:44 Brazilian wandering spider
9:04 Sydney funnel-web
10:30 The full ladder
Sources:
MythBusters (2004), daddy long-legs venom episode
Bertone et al. (2016), "Arthropods of the great indoors", PeerJ: spiders found in every one of 50 North Carolina homes
Vetter & Barger (2002), "An infestation of 2,055 brown recluse spiders and no envenomations in a Kansas home", Journal of Medical Entomology
Australian Reptile Park, funnel-web spider venom program; Sydney funnel-web antivenom (1981)
Guinness World Records, most venomous spider (Phoneutria)
Maria Sibylla Merian, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
Real photos used under Creative Commons licenses (Wikimedia Commons, iNaturalist), by:
CC BY-SA 4.0: SharonPapierdreams, hntro, Luis Fernández García, Didier Descouens, daSupremo, Pjt56, Classiccardinal, Mangodreads, Emman Asuncion Foronda, Ganjarmustika1904, Basile Morin, Matthew T Rader, Adrian Tync, Francisco de Menezes Cavalcante Sassi, Acabashi, Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, Myotus, Gionorossi, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton, DXR
CC BY 4.0: rober025, blazeclaw, Guillaume Delaitre, inbetweenbays, Tomasz Sienicki, Claude Kolwelter, Reuber Brandão, dreworme
CC BY 2.0: Maximilian Paradiz from Amsterdam, Nethe, arian.suresh from Chennai, India, Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, Thomas Shahan, Rison Thumboor from Thrissur, India, Virginia State Parks staff, Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia, Beau Giles
CC BY-SA 3.0: Opoterser, Ian Fieggen, Sabari Girisan M
CC BY-SA 2.0: Martin Cathrae, Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, Robert Lamb
CC BY 3.0: Chb, CSIRO
CC BY: Thomas Mesaglio
Public domain / CC0 photos also from Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist.
This video is for entertainment and education. If you think you were bitten by a dangerous spider, get medical help. Benny is a cartoon. No spiders (or exterminators) were harmed.
TAGS
spiders, most dangerous spiders, spiders ranked, sydney funnel web spider, brazilian wandering spider, black widow, brown recluse, goliath birdeater, wolf spider, jumping spider, daddy long legs, house spiders, spider facts, venomous spiders, animals ranked
PINNED COMMENT
Benny survived (barely). Which spider lives in YOUR house right now? Drop it below. Next week: Benny becomes a night watchman with a different guard dog every night.
Mine is the funnel-web. A spider that walks out of a swimming pool is a hard no.
Next week Benny tests a "100% bear-proof" cooler on 6 bears 🐻