Apr 29
Redback Spider VS Snake (PICS)
Here’s something you don’t see every day. From Flip Top Bin
“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. Tania Robertson, 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.
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. 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.”
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Time to find a new place of employment!
That spider is just about the most epic spider in all of the cosmos! At least, the most epic i’ve heard of. When a spider kills a lion, tangles it in it’s web and fends off a rescue party from the lion’s den, I will find it and make it my god. This spider will do in the mean time :p
Its fantastic how big animals they can catch in those webs.Sometimes also birds.Urghh..
Wow!
Nice spider, funny looking red back, looks more like an american black widow spider but i’m pretty sure it caught a brown snake, nice catch though !
Incredible!! Never seen a black widow spider that big, let alone take on a snake. Very venomous. Keep progress shots of it coming eh?
I had a biology professor who researched spiders. They gave spiders LSD and took pictures of the webs they spun. The webs were big enough to catch birds.
Of all the places in the world, I had to come to Australia. Ewwh.
this is the substance of which horror movies are made. will the building be fumigated? will the people who work there get hazardous duty pay?
Wow, these are amazing photos! Never thought a red back could do that
What the heck kind of office is this lady working in that has snakes in it and snake eating spiders….??
i wish one would do that to my housemates dog
Got bit by a redback when I was akid living in south Australia. I was laying in the grass looking through a pair of binoculars. I felt like I had been jabbed with a hyperdermic needle on the elbow. My arm swelled to twice its size. Queer thing is my mum and dad didnt appear concerned ? still wonder about that day.
Photoshopped. It’s so blatantly a fake. No snake would be entrapped by a spider’s web.
You people are so gullible.
Redbacks are pretty much the same as Black Widows. Red Back are have a more deadly poison.
Also, redbacks are quite common in Australia, they like rocky areas, and aren’t usually indoor spiders, unless it rains a lot in their area.
I have seen large skinks (Lizards) caught up and being dragged back to the redback nest. Nothing quite as big as this snake, but unfortunately Craig, you’re incorrect!! I wish you were right!!
However redbacks are generally ok as they don’t come near people, it’s the Sydney Funnel web, found in the Blue Mountains, and Kurrajong areas that you have to worry about.
They’re nasty looking, and very f#$kn deadly!…
Why would they photo shop 5 pictures of a snake being eaten by a spider?
and make it look so accurate? Spiders are scary for a reason.
hey craig, you’re a dipshit. maybe if you got off your fat ass spending all day trying to spot photoshop work so you can call them out on it and feel better about yourself, you’d have time to read a book and learn a thing or two. News flash you cum stain, there are spiders that regularly catch snakes, birds, bats, very large rodents, and even larger mammals. This is obviously not photoshopped, so it seems even after hours of your life wasted practicing, you still can’t tell what’s real and what’s faked. prick.
Redback spider?
Looks like red tummy to me.
Black widow spider mayhaps?
Definitely not photoshopped by the way,
a deadly spider can definitely take down a 14cm snake.
You people are idiots and should check out some discovery channel/national geographic before you speak/type.
It’s not a redback. Hasn’t anyone noticed the reds on the belly. It was originally reported by a Sth African newspaper.
I did a bit of researching on this story, as it’s popped up in a few places. All seem to claim it as Australian, but the snake resembles a South African Aurora House Snake (http://www.dewsburycrafts.co.za/aurora_house_snake.htm )
The spider is undoubtably of the Widow genus (Latrodectus), and probably a Black Button Spider as they’re known in South Africa. (if indeed the snake is an Aurora.
Interstingly if you look at the Wikipedia page for Redback spiders you’ll see a photo of one with a small captured lizard.
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It isn’t a large snake. 14cm is only about 6″ in American speak, so I don’t doubt it is possible. It looks like a Black Widow or a Red Back, these two spiders are related. Even though the red is on it’s stomach I would say it would be in the same family.
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Where the fuck do you work lady!
Who comes into their office Monday morning to find some monstrous devil-spider eating a freakin’ snake, and then LEAVES it there all week to finish? I woulda squashed that thing instantly. Where the hell do you work, PETA?
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