We used to fish funnel web spiders out of the pool every time it rained, and I remember one time Mum saved a particularly big one to send to the museum, so she took the dead spider and put it in a jar.Through the night it revived (Funnel Webs have hairy abdomens and can survive under water for some time because of the air that gets trapped in the hair) and she got such a shock that she emptied a w