Male Redback Spider

Finding a male Redback spider on the handle of the garage door.

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Pets & Animals

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• redback
• red
• back
• spider
• spiders
• australia
• australian

[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.

[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.

[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."

[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

[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

[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......

[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