Broadcaster Stephen Nolan has received an unreserved apology over a "deluge" of social media posts accusing him of being "involved in sectarianism and of inciting hatred and violence in Belfast".
As Ms Teni offloads one arachnid that was delivered to her in a Vegemite jar, she stresses her team isn't telling Australians to go looking for the spiders and "throw themselves into danger".Rather, they're asking that if someone comes across one, they safely capture it rather than kill it.
"Saying that this is the world's most deadly spider and then [asking the public to] catch it and bring it to us does sound counter-intuitive," she says."[But] that spider there now, thanks to Charlie, will… effectively save someone's life."All of the spiders her team collects get brought back to the Australian Reptile Park where they are catalogued, sorted by sex and stored.
Any females that get dropped off are considered for a breeding programme, which helps supplement the number of spiders donated by the public.Meanwhile, the males, which are six to seven times more toxic than the females, are used for the antivenom programme and milked every two weeks, Emma explains.
The pipette she uses to remove the venom from the fangs is attached to a suction hose - crucial for collecting as much venom as possible, since each spider provides only small amounts.
While a few drops is enough to kill, scientists need to milk 200 of these spiders to have enough to fill one vial of antivenom.Muzarabani did not seriously consider the prospect of a career as a cricketer until he had a growth spurt about the age of 18 - "I was always tall, then I really started getting tall." At 21 he was a Test cricketer, a debut against South Africa on Boxing Day in 2017 only his sixth first-class match.
By then, though, the wheels were in motion for Muzarabani to alter his path.With the help of former Zimbabwe captain Tatenda Taibu, agent Rob Humphries and Winston Weekes, a legendary figure born in Barbados and with connections to Zimbabwe, Muzarabani had the opportunity to pause his international career and join county cricket as a Kolpak player.
In 2018 Muzarabani played for Derbyshire's second XI and, in the next week, impressed enough in Northamptonshire's reserves to be taken on."It was a really, really tough decision," he says. "I knew that I wanted to learn. I was thinking I would come here, learn how to be a professional player and go back to Zim a better player."