That's not a spider, this is a spider...
Welcome to Australia.
Where our spiders eat our snakes
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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 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 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.
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.
Steve
Posted 05/02/2008 07:34 am
How about some spiders!
and grab my purse and never come back!
