Redback Spider Summer Roundup How I'm Winning The War EDUCATIONAL VIDEO ─ leokimvideo

It's time to roundup the Redback Spiders before they breed. My understanding of the Redback Spider's life cycle lets me turn up the heat on my spider infested garden. Sadly these spiders are deadly pests and can build up huge numbers in suburban environments. In one breeding season a single female Redback spider can easily generate a clutch of 4 to 5 spider egg sacs that has over 1000 spiderlings. In her life she will generate around 10 egg sac's or say 2500 baby spiders. The fact is my garden does not have enough natural predators to keep the Redback population down, so I focus on these spiders egg laying times to eliminate their ability to live long enough to lay spider egg sac's. My method is selective and does not interfere with the good critters in the garden. I can see the best natural weapon is the many ant colonies. Redback spiders will not set up a spider nest near an ant colony. Lizards and skinks are also worthy helpers in this fight and amazingly I have video of a skink with a Redback spider in it's mouth. For me that's totally incredible to witness, very rare to see. It's a reminder that in the backyard there is a constant war and fight for survival. Critter feeding on critter via the evolutionary food chain. Slowly but surely I'm pulling down the numbers of Redback spiders who decided my backyard is their perfect home. I'm winning the war with unconventional weapons and understanding.

The Redback spider (Latrodectus hasseltii) is a species of highly venomous deadly spider believed to originate in Australia, but now found from Southeast Asia to Australia and New Zealand, with colonies elsewhere. 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. The redback and its relatives in the genus Latrodectus are among the most dangerous spider genera, alongside funnel-web spiders (Atrax and Hadronyche), mouse spiders (Missulena), banana spiders (Phoneutria) and recluse spiders (Loxosceles). Venom is produced by holocrine glands in the spider's chelicerae (mouth parts). Venom accumulates in the lumen of the glands and passes through paired ducts into the spider's two hollow fangs. The venom of the redback spider is thought to be similar to that of the other Latrodectus spiders.

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