tub containing preservative into the ground. Your spiders could be funnel webs, they could also be other mygalomophs such as trapdoor or mouse spiders or they might be other large ground hunting spiders such as some species of wolf spiders (or all of the above and more!).  If you send in a photo or two I will try to identify them for you. As a precaution you shouldn't handle the drowned spiders because they are reknown for recovering unexpectedly after considerable periods underwater. Apart from when they get flooded out of burrows by rain the main reason male spiders wander is to find females. So the time of year is dependent on the breeding cycle of the spider. Female funnel web spiders hunt from the mouth of their burrows, so do not usually wander, whereas female wolf spiders are active foragers. Hello Angela, funnel web spiders do not make that kind of a web at all - they live in burrows in sheltered areas. So no need to worry about those in your car! The most likely culprit is a Steatoda. They are related to redback spiders but far less dangerous and there are a number of species that live around humans and in bush areas. There is a paragraph about these spiders on the Redback spider page http://australianmuseum.net.au/Redback-S\\... Hello Carolyn, the web does look like that of a mygalomorph spider, but there is rather more silk around the entrance than I would expect for a funnelweb spider. I suspect