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Red Back & Snake

May 23rd 2008 14:23
Don’t underestimate a Red Back!


Spider vs Snake

An office receptionist got the shock of her life earlier this week when she found a 14cm long snake entangled in the web of a deadly spider.
A receptionist at an electrical firm , came in to work on Tuesday and spotted the strange sight next to a desk in her office.

The snake, which had obviously died from the spider's poisonous bite, was off the ground and caught up in the web.
Spider catches a snake in its web

Leon Lotz of the arachnology department at the National Museum said it was only the second time that he had heard of a snake getting caught in a spider's web.
It is believed the snake got caught in the web on Monday night.
But it did not take the spider long to bite it.
A red mark on the snake's stomach was evidence of where the spider had started eating it.
Red Back spider catches a snake


Throughout Tuesday, the spider checked on her prey, but on Wednesday she rolled it up and started spinning a web around it.
She also kept lifting it higher off the ground, while continually snacking on it.
Even a fly that accidentally landed on the snake was chased off aggressively.......
Red Back spider vs snake


Red Back Spider catches a snake in its web


Snake coiled up in red Back's web

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Comment by Mountain Fog

June 28th 2008 13:27


Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
that is truly bizarre!

besides what sort of office has a snake and a red back spider hanging around the desks?

fog

Comment by Anonymous

March 4th 2012 17:59
this is a latrodectus geometricus spider less venomous than classic latrodectus mactans (black widow) but still a threat... 100% sure it is take a closer look you see the whitish to grey legs (not only black) besides the hourglass X which is orange ..wiki and google it if you dont beleive... definately not a redback or latrodectus hasselti or mactans

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