Redback Spider Vs Daddy Long-Legs Spider Mythbusting Bug Battle
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Can a Daddy Long-Legs Spider (Cellar Spider) kill a Redback Spider? This spider fight puts these venom filled & skilled killer spiders together to see if the myth related to the Daddy Long-Legs is correct. So many people claim that this fragile tiny bodied spider has a lethal venom that cleans up Deadly Redback spiders. I'm certainly aware that the Australian Redback Spider will kill, attack and take control of small lizards, insects and other spiders large and small. I have only seen ant's present any sort of real threat to a Redback Spider. Video posted as educational, documentary, and scientific and forms part of my Redback Spider study series of videos.
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Pholcidae, commonly known as cellar spiders, are a spider family in the suborder Araneomorphae. The family contains about 1500 species divided into about 80 genera. Some species, especially Pholcus phalangioides, are commonly called daddy long-legs spider, granddaddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, or vibrating spider.Pholcids are fragile arachnids, the body being 2–10 mm in length with legs which may be up to 50 mm long. Pholcus and Smeringopus have cylindrical abdomens and the eyes are arranged in two lateral groups of three and two smaller median contiguous eyes. Eight and six eyes both occur in this family. Spermophora has a small globose abdomen and its eyes are arranged in two groups of three and no median eyes. Pholcids are gray to brown with banding or chevron markings. The shape of the Pholcus and Smeringopus's body resembles that of a peanut. The cellar spiders torso is thin and doesn't have a fixed colour. It can be clear, clear brown, brown or gray.
The redback spider (Latrodectus hasseltii) is a species of highly 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.
Web Links :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider