Officials at a Reptile Park in Australia are encouraging people to capture the Sydney funnel-web, which is described as the world’s deadliest spider.

As the weather is warming in the country, the deadly spider species is moving closer to backyards.Australian Reptile Park head keeper Julia Mendezona admitted that the prospect of catching the dangerous spider is frightening but pointed out that many people killing the spider as resulted I a shortfall of the spiders that are also required to help create anti-venom.Mendezona said that the park wants to avoid a situation where it is facing a shortage of anti-venom.

The Australian Reptile Park is located on the NSW Central Coast and is the only park in the country that milks theSydney funnel-webto create the lifesaving antivenene. Officials said that people have bene killing these dangerous spiders instead of capturing them and this has resulted in fewer spiders with the facility.

Data showed that there were 65 suspected funnel-web bites in Australia in the previous year. However, the availability of antivenene has helped save lives and there has not been aby death due to funnel-web bite in more than two decades. Experts also said that these spiders are less likely than other spiders to give dry bites without venom.