Posted on 01/11/2017 6:46:54 AM PST by C19fan
Snakes often spark fear in humans because of their venom and speed, but one found itself completely helpless when it stumbled into the home of a deadly spider. Carmel Munro, from Vinifera, Australia, walked into her garden shed to find a female redback spider battling a snake that it had caught in its web. Despite tossing and turning the large snake cannot shake itself free as the spider approaches to inject its venom.
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Eight legs vs. no legs.
Sticky trap.
Stealthy ambush.
Potent venom, easily administered to immobilized victim.
The snake didn't have a chance.
Don’t nobody ping Salamander on this!
*shudder*
Poor snakey. Redbacks are the Aussie black widows. Widow silk is STRONG. Got those bastards (bitches?) hiding out all around my yard. >:(
Meet Jeebies.
Makes me want to check around my feet just sitting here...
So, do you have *the-rest-of-the-story*?
What eventually happened?
As I was watching the video my phone (hooked on my belt) buzzed and vibrated to announce a new message. I nearly fell off the chair.
Not a bad idea. I woke up one morning in a lounge chair to find at my feet a coiled snake ready to strike. The cat had brought it in. Fortunately it was non poisonous but still that was a shock. Same cat once deposited a black widow spider onto my neck when he rubbed against it. Apparently he had inadvertently picked it up on his fur in the back yard. I felt it crawling and brushed it off quickly before it bit.
Yes, heebie meet jeebie.
I need stories like this when I am deep into a Minnesota winter. I may struggle with the cold but it does kill off the creeping things that can hurt me. Right now it feels like the only silver lining!
We do have spiders and snakes but they are not poisonous nor are they everywhere.
Jim Stafford Spiders and Snakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vudA72hibg
The web threads have been used as the crosshairs in telescope reticles.
I was thinking of that but couldn’t recall the details! :)
Growing up in Mass and New Hampshire, I never had to worry about anything more threatening than a swarm of black flies in May. Now that I live in Arkansas, if I want to go exploring it’s on with the $200 knee-high snake boots, jeans, hat, long sleeves and half a gallon of Deep Woods Off, and maybe bring along the Public Defender with 410 birdshot just in case.
It is a much prettier and more interesting landscape out here, but I do miss being able to traipse through the woods in a swimsuit and flip flops like I did when I was little!!!
I really do need to keep those things in mind when my January/February discontent sets in. Deer ticks and mosquitoes are the most dangerous things here. Repellent and tick checks are all we need. Of course, I know a few people who have had Lymes Disease and my husband once had West Nile Virus so perhaps I shouldn’t be so dismissive!
Australia.
Of course.
None shall pass.
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