Spider Eats Snake
An office receptionist from Bloemfontein got the shock of her life when she found a 14cm long Aurora snake (not an Australian snake as some reports have claimed) entangled in the web of a deadly brown button spider (not a Black Widow as some reports have claimed). 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.
More on this story: Here and Here from News24.com. Plus more victories for the Spiders from Spiderzule.com.
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