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19-Jan-08, 10:12 PM
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i recieved this the other day rather interesting
Bloemfontein , South Africa - An office receptionist got the shock of
her life earlier this week when she found a 14cm long Aurora house
snake entangled in the web of a deadly spider
Tania Robertson, a receptionist at an electrical firm in Bloemfontein ,
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.
Leon Lotz of the arachnology department at the National Museum
immediately identified the spider as a female brown button spider The
brown button spider, easily identifiable by a red hourglass marking on
its stomach, is not quite as deadly as a black widow. He said it was
only the second time in South Africa that he had heard of a snake
getting caught in a spider's web.
Rod Douglas from the herpetology department identified the snake as
being a young, non-poisonous Aurora house snake. 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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19-Jan-08, 10:15 PM
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and the last pic
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19-Jan-08, 10:20 PM
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19-Jan-08, 10:26 PM
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This is one someone posted a while ago 
Last edited by Jozz; 25-Jun-08 at 01:11 PM.
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19-Jan-08, 10:27 PM
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Oh, that was an eastern brown and a red-back
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19-Jan-08, 10:28 PM
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Reminds me of that Lar sen cartoon - two spiders are spinning a huge web across the bottom of a slide at a kids' playground and one spider says to the other "If we pull this off, we'll eat like KINGS!!!"
lol
Last edited by jessb; 19-Jan-08 at 10:38 PM.
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19-Jan-08, 10:35 PM
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Fascinating.....you wouldnt have thought the web would be strong enough to hold the snake....guess it is.
makes you wonder how strong the venom is!!
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19-Jan-08, 10:38 PM
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its a pretty little snake
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19-Jan-08, 11:05 PM
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