Redback spiders can be a nightmare. They are close cousins to Black Widows and love to live in warm secluded areas. A Redback spider was leaving a web at a control box. I can see Redback spiderlings so I needed to act fast. Looking under this box with my iPhone I could see it was the perfect spider home. I can't use a flamethrower here so I resorted to chemical control. This spider proved to be very difficult to flush out. In a way I was 3 days too late, with the spider egg sac hatched I'm sure some spiderlings would have blown in the wind to set up new Redback homes. This is the huge spider problem I am living through right now. I have never seen Redback activity like this before. Every spider web will lead to a spider or nest of spiders. The video links below detail how this spider saga started.
Redback Black Widow Spiders On Childrens Tonka Truck Toys Spider Infestation Scary Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsm26EaXrc0
Horror Redback Spider Count On Kids Toys Giant Egg Sac Found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gQGiunSFno
Redback Spider Egg Sac Whats Inside Is SCARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExrWLJiKTqI
The Redback spider (Latrodectus hasseltii) is a species of venomous spider indigenous to Australia. It is a member of the cosmopolitan genus Latrodectus, the widow spiders. The adult female is easily recognised by her spherical black body with a prominent red stripe on the upper side of her abdomen and an hourglass-shaped red/orange streak on the underside. Females have a body length of about 10 millimetres (0.4 in), while the male is much smaller, being only 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long. Mainly nocturnal, the female Redback lives in an untidy web in a warm sheltered location, commonly near or inside human residences. It preys on insects, spiders and small vertebrates that become ensnared in its web. It kills its prey by injecting a complex venom through its two fangs when it bites, before wrapping them in silk and sucking out the liquefied insides. Male spiders and spiderlings often live on the periphery of the female spiders' web and steal leftovers. Other species of spider and parasitoid wasps prey on this species. The Redback is one of few arachnids which usually display sexual cannibalism while mating. The sperm is then stored in the spermathecae, organs of the female reproductive tract, and can be used up to two years later to fertilise several clutches of eggs. Each clutch averages 250 eggs and is housed in a round white silken egg sac. The Redback spider has a widespread distribution in Australia, and inadvertent introductions have led to established colonies in New Zealand, Japan, and in greenhouses in Belgium.
The redback is one of the few spider species that can be seriously harmful to humans, and its preferred habitat has led it to being responsible for the large majority of serious spider bites in Australia.
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Web Links :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiderling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider