Redback Spider Vs Giant Christmas Beetle NOT So Merry Christmas ─ leokimvideo

In my killer neighborhood deadly Redback spiders are everywhere! These spiders can adapt to almost every urban setting. I find a Giant Christmas Beetle that's caught up in a Redbacks web. These large beetles are large and powerful, seeing it caught in the Redback spiders web is a great illustration of how sticky the trap zone is. A large female Redback appears and starts to work on controlling the giant Christmas beetle. The Redback spider is adding web with her back legs and keeping well clear of the beetle’s powerful claws. This is a great example of how effective a Redback spiders trap is against what is a very powerful insect. When I did my Redback spider study I did see that it can take a long period of time for a Redback to control these beetles. It's far more incredible seeing this outside the spider tank, a stunning display of nature’s best killers in action. Proof I live in a neighborhood loaded with killer spiders everywhere. There is also an added Redback up the end who's caught a mysterious critter. I'm sure the audience can work out if it's an ant or wasp. Whatever it is it's history.

Giant Christmas Beetle or King Christmas Beetle (Anoplognathus viridiaeneus) Is probably the largest of that section of our insects known as Christmas Beetles. It is common in the bushland around Sydney and the north coast of New South Wales. Essentially a summer insect, it appears on the foliage of eucalyptus trees; where one is found you can be certain there will be others on the same tree.

The Redback spider (Latrodectus hasseltii) is a species of 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.
The redback is one of the few spider species that can be seriously harmful to humans, and its preferred habitat has led it to being responsible for the large majority of serious spider bites in Australia.

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