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GAF? Spider kills snake (kidding, of course its Australia)
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Lucian Cat
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This isn't completely unheard of yet if I ever happen upon this one day I will leave this country in a heartbeat D:
Fake edit: I have one of these dudes chilling in my shower for the last few weeks. I think he just overstayed his welcome...
Fake edit: I have one of these dudes chilling in my shower for the last few weeks. I think he just overstayed his welcome...
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Yeah, but you haven't seen 6 daddy long legs in a shower...
(I have. Should've burned down that cabin).
I think the same method red backs use. Snagline webs on the ground tangle around a passing snake. As it struggles they wrap themselves in it, the length left over decreases and they essentially drag themselves up.
Its like ultimate sushi train home delivery.
Lucian Cat
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The visual of this just gave me the heeby jeebies D:
ValkyrUser
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They're slowly working their way up the food chain. Soon they'll come for us.
TheVampire
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So what if you extract the venom and inject it into a human via needle?
jetsetnickradio
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I have an unreasonable fear of snakes and yet I can't help but feel sad for this baby snake 
I am pretty sure this is an urban legend.
H.Protagonist
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I feel so proud for some reason. Go, Straya Spider Bros!
They're slowly working their way up the food chain. Soon they'll come for us.
Daffy Duck
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It's going to eat the snake?
Along with others, yes.
I heard that then I heard it wasn't true. If only there was some way we could check!
From the article:
I still don't see how a daddy longlegs killed a snake, I pick them up sometimes to relocate them and they're just like wisps of hair.
Tranqueris
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In other words, that part of the land belongs to the spiders now.
Kenshin001
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I didn't get this either. I played with daddy long legs when I was a kid, they seem the most harmless spider imaginable. I really can't see how they could kill a brown snake.
Maybe the snake overheated or dehydrated?
daddy long legs are cool, I just let them be. There's about 4-5 in the garage now.
huntsman are cool too, I don't hurt them. I would meet one usually while taking out the trash to the bin, looking straight at me. I just leave the bag next to bin, it can wait until tomorrow...
daddy long legs are cool, I just let them be. There's about 4-5 in the garage now.
huntsman are cool too, I don't hurt them. I would meet one usually while taking out the trash to the bin, looking straight at me. I just leave the bag next to bin, it can wait until tomorrow...
BreezyLimbo
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Daddy Long Legs are great. Kill pesky bugs for you and just chill in corners.
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australia is just canada except they traded the cold for deadly shit
Antiwhippy
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The Australian ones are so harmless I feel bad for squishing them with my barehands. I only do that when the invade my shower though. I'll let them crawl on my hand and put them outside if possible.
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I believe This myth was busted
Lucian Cat
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They're essentially the same. I have one chillaxing in my shower atm.
Rood
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I was going with the perception that everything an Australia wants to kill you
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bodyboarder
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Worthwhile trade.
For the record, there's two different things people often claim are "daddy long legs". There are the ones that have really "floppy" looking legs and only have one segment to their body which are harvestmen; those aren't actually even spiders and can't produce silk or webs. Those are the ones that are generally harmless because they don't have any kind of venom, they pretty much just eat stuff that is already decomposing.
There's a type of spider sometimes also mistakenly called "daddy long legs" which are really cellar spiders but I don't think they're what people typically think of when they hear that name (at least in the US), and there's no reason to assume those couldn't bite a human as far as I know (though I've never heard one way or the other if they are dangerous at all).
There's a type of spider sometimes also mistakenly called "daddy long legs" which are really cellar spiders but I don't think they're what people typically think of when they hear that name (at least in the US), and there's no reason to assume those couldn't bite a human as far as I know (though I've never heard one way or the other if they are dangerous at all).
PirateKing
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I think our country is the most chilled with spiders. I got too many weird looking scary ones somewhere in my house. We live in peace.
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But they can inject it into your gums if you sleep with your mouth open.
They're slowly working their way up the food chain. Soon they'll come for us.
Holy shit.
There was a video a few days ago of snakes in a shed caught in redback webs.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/30765335/spider-snares-snake-in-its-web/#play
Like in the video I'm pretty sure it's the snakes just getting caught up in the webs and the spiders getting a free lunch (?).
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/30765335/spider-snares-snake-in-its-web/#play
Like in the video I'm pretty sure it's the snakes just getting caught up in the webs and the spiders getting a free lunch (?).
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Lucian Cat
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Eh, I've seen redback husks in longlegs webs, that article was more of a "not quite sure".
It's an urban legend. I can link you to numerous articles but I'm on mobile. Harvestman (what most people call "daddy long legs") aren't even spiders.
Yes mate, read the articles. For whatever reason they have not / cannot harm humans and prey on spiders that are venomous to us. I can believe circumstances led this spider to killing that snake, just saying they're no threat to us.
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And yes, I fell into the trap of believing they were more venomous than they are due to seeing evidence of them eating redbacks, which I see is due to hunting method.
Lucian Cat
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What hunting method? Legit spooked now D:
I think the common problem when it comes to identify the animals in these threads are the common names or names we use in place of more specific common names. The creature in the photo appears to be a true spider. What most people in the states call a daddy long legs is not a spider. There is at least one more creature that is called a daddy long legs outside of the two mentioned already.
Naturally when discussing them and that shared term is used it causes problems.
Naturally when discussing them and that shared term is used it causes problems.
Atraveller
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