Redback Spider Nest Micro Scooter & Bindi Week 22 Spider Tank ─ leokimvideo

My sons wonderful Micro Scooter had signs of a Redback spider nest. These spiders love dry, warm reclusive areas where small ants and bugs are passing by. It's not nice finding Redback spiders on childrens bikes or scooters so I need to deal with the spider to make my sons scooter safe. In the end this was quite a tricky spider to extract. Such is the nature of the Australian Redback spider. I also take a look at my pet Redback Spider called Bindi. The spider tank is up to week 22 and she's the last surviving Redback Vs the many hundreds that were in the spider tank. Maybe Bindi Spider is wired a little differently to all those who didn't make it.

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 3â€"4 mm (0.12â€"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.

Video posted as educational, documentary, and scientific and forms part of my Redback Spider study series of videos.
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