Male Redback Spider

[bustergmaxx]

@MrAirgunlover I just got bitten (bout an hour ago) from a male redback here in Oz, it was lanky compared to the female (who has some serious booty o_0), its legs were blacky/brown with bands of light-brown, & it was smaller but red-striped like the female. The bite looks like a small graze, like something u'd get skateboarding, or hit by a ping-pong ball at reasonable speed :) Just little pain in my armpit gland n occassionaly down my arm if i stress it. ...problem is, now I'm paranoid LOL

[spiderpug]

This is a female, males are white and brown and are much smaller...

Check out me holding a female redback spider

[kode1303]

Australian Museum writes:

"Female Redback Spiders are black with an obvious orange to red longitudinal stripe on the upper abdomen.

The males' red markings are often less distinct. The body is light brown with white markings on the upper side of the abdomen, and a pale hour-glass marking on the underside."

[COLETTEDAVE]

I was getting the washing in, and one must have somehow gotten into my hair. I found it about 1 hour later when I felt it moving in my hair, yikkesss

[punji73]

how is that a male redback spider? theres no such thing, males are white its the females that are black with a red back so there for this is a female red back spider

[kode1303]

Redback males are not white. Have a look at amonline(dot)net(dot)au There you can see how to identify the spiders.

[punji73]

well i always thought the males were either white or a kind of light brown colour but i have checked them out on that web site and i see that they have the black colour with the red back, yet they're too small to bite us it seems

[kode1303]

That's what I learned too ... had about 20 females in the shed itself, though. Nothing happened as I left them alone. Cheers.

[tandjbiz]

And how can u say that is not a mail redback spider.......do your home work mail redbacks have a dark red on there back so no Bullshit, do some reserch before you comment about shit u have no Idea about......

[punji73]

i can say that cos i did a school project on the red back spider way back in 1986 and the book i did research in had a picture of a red back spider and low and behold, the bugger was white also the book said it wasnt as venomous as the female which is black with a red patch on its abdomen. so i'm only going on what the book said. the spider in this video seems to be a dark grey with whitish legs, maybe it was white when young and got darker as it got older who knows, who freakin cares! nuff said

[punji73]

all i know is the only good red back spider is a squished one, i hate all spiders cept for daddy long legs and those cute little jumping spiders

[2pacandgtafan]

I neally got bitten by a female that was hiding in a old flip, I freaked out.

[kirrachan]

That's not a Male redback spider. Male redback spiders have a white hourglass pattern on their lower body and they are very small. Plus the Males are practically harmless, it's the females that are dangerous.

[kode1303]

If you say so ... I saw the white joints on the legs and the red markings. My reference is amoline(dot)net ... maybe it's too big. Hard to see on the vid, though, and it's been a while, so... Anyway - thanks for the input.

[kirrachan]

Yeah, it's just that the Male rebcak spider actually has no red on it at all, just white. Plus the body is so much small the the females. D: I've had one crawling on my shoulder and I freaked out, so I looked it up.

[screamingcockatoo]

One of the very few thing that gives me the willies.

We call them Black Widows here. I've been envenomated by one at a teenager.

The area on my finger still had a plug scar where the skin necrosised out.

The envenomation left me with flu like symptoms and a headache that lasted for days.

[Naturaldefenceplant]

You dont see males that often (that is to say whenever i have seen any thier have been no males present) but if your up for it no worries, :)

[Naturaldefenceplant]

some of these comments are a bit stupid, as for nixin, 'a bite can kill in mintues' if you call 3 hours mintues then yes. Also The male cant penetrate human skin, a load of bs also, but what they were saying is true that the female is more venomous than the male

[kode1303]

Thankyou for putting your foot down! So now we're back to what I say on the vid. Anyway - I have plenty of'em in my shed ... maybe I should let one bite me and thereby test both toxicity and ability to penetrate skin!

[momanlad]

Not dangerous at all, the male red back is much smaller than the female and the fangs are not large enough to penetrate human skin

[thematriox]

yes that is correct only fefmales can kill you

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[nixin143]

Nasty things, these red baks are, 1 bite can kill u within minutes

[kode1303]

Not quite, friend, only very few reported deaths by redback ... and the males in particular are not very dangerous.

[lestatsluver666]

Thank god you looked! lol

[vote4elmongo]

lol horrible creatures