Nice big venomous Redback spider in my garden - arachnid black widow attack

Video footage and some still shots of a nice big venomous redback spider I found in my garden in Western Australia. Watch out for the bit when it shoots something out of its rear end and I poop myself!!

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• redback
• spider
• black
• widow
• deadly
• arachnid
• large
• big
• insect
• camel
• funnel
• web
• bite
• venomous
• huge
• red
• back
• Australia
• toilet
• dangerous
• huntsman
• whitetail

[costablancafan]

it is a black widow, isn't it?

[cockingace]

Same family I think

[ericrc17]

Do you live in south america because those are said to live only in south america.

[cockingace]

This was in Australia, I think you may be thinking of the Black Widow or similar...

[fireomen92]

the best way to say hello to one of those is to hold a brick above it and say catch

[T0bSure]

you should make it bite you then post that up on here

[MultiCutiepie6]

get away from it....

[Joshxoxo38]

@12sweetman inccorect the males are white and nonvenoumouse.

[Joshxoxo38]

@GrOwTh187 when you take in the fact thaat the red back is one of the top 10 venouse spiders in the world, then it might be lol =p

[freedomchaser2402]

@costablancafan ps- all latrodectus are known as widow spiders and button spiders

[freedomchaser2402]

@costablancafan there are around 31 species of widow spider (latrodectus sp.) world wide. black widow is just the common name for latrodectus mecans, latrodectus hesperus and latrodectus variolus...all the rest have other common names like red widow, brown widow, katipo spider and red back

[PlaydohMonkey123]

Horrible thing! Did you kill it?

[GrOwTh187]

I do pool services atm in Perth and they're under 1 out of every 5 skimmer box lids. I'm American, and one of the most interesting things about these spiders is how sticky their webs are. The silk they produce is stickier than any other I've encountered although they're not nearly as scary as the Huntsman