'I thought it would just be a huntsman, but I looked down and there was this great big thing on the ground flat.' 9News
Lachlan Copeland, who lives in bushland near Coffs Harbour on theMid North Coast, was in the kitchen on New Year's Day when he heard his four-year-old daughter Lucy squeal in terror.
Lachlan Copeland, an ecologist and nature photographer, safely caught the funnel-web and released it. The spider has since been identified as Hadronyche macquariensis, or Port Macquarie funnel-web spider, which is one of a number of species of Australian funnel-webs.The encounter comes after the Australian Reptile Park warnedThe park also urged "responsible adults" to catch wandering Sydney funnel-webs safely, as donations are critical to the life-saving antivenom program.
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