Australian zoo urges people to donate deadly spiders
The Australian Reptile Park is urging people to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders, to help replenish stocks of antidote. The park, Australia's sole supplier of funnel-web venom, relies on the public to hand in spiders. The program, wherein spiders are milked for the venom used in the antidote, is at risk as very few spiders were donated last year.