{"id":749,"date":"2016-03-29T07:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:20:57","slug":"funnel-web-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/funnel-web-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Funnel Web Spider | Pugdundee Safaris"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"749\" class=\"elementor elementor-749\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d85b3ec e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1d85b3ec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e3d78d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e3d78d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Funnel Web Spider<\/h2><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Funnel-Web-Spider-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"641\" \/><\/p><p>During the nature trails at the jungles of Central India, one will often spot these distinctive webs. These webs are woven by Funnel-web spiders.<\/p><p>Funnel-web Spiders belong to the family <em>Agelenidae<\/em>. They are also known as funnel weavers because they weave funnel-shaped webs, which they use as burrows or to trap their prey. The surface of the web is kept flat to capture the prey. There remains a small funnel shaped tube that leads to a silk burrow. The burrow functions as a protective hiding place. They usually build webs in tall grass, stacks of wood, dense shrubs, between rocks, barns, and sheds. As soon as the prey is trapped in the web, the spider quickly moves out of the funnel to grab the prey.<\/p><p><em>Photo Courtesy : Harendra Sahu<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e87d05c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e87d05c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c37433 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"0c37433\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\n    .ast-author-meta{\n        display: none;\n    }\n    \n<\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funnel Web Spider During the nature trails at the jungles of Central India, one will often spot these distinctive webs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[380,382,378,360,381,379],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flora-and-fauna","tag-agelenidae","tag-funnel-weavers","tag-funnel-web-spiders","tag-jungles-of-central-india","tag-silk-burrow","tag-spiders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pugdundeesafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}