The Australian Museum's arachnology collections manager Graham Milledge said while it was not clear exactly how the snake had died, it was quite possible the spider was responsible.It’s pictures like these that get those rumors started, I’d bet.
"The most likely scenario is that the snake got entangled in the spider's web. Usually what happens then is the spider will try to wrap the snake and then they'll bite it," Mr Milledge said.
The Australian Museum lists the daddy-long-legs spider as carnivorous and predatory. The venom is not particularly potent, despite rumors it is one of the world's most poisonous.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
Spider Eats Snake
The caption on this photograph at Aussie Farmer
says “Death by Daddy long legs.” Now, what they call Daddy Long Legs in
Australia is a different creature from the fairly harmless insects we
call Daddy Long Legs in the U.S. This is a cellar spider,
which is sometimes called a Daddy Long Legs in Australia. And it’s
captured a brown snake. Farmer Patrick Lees took the picture on his
property in Weethalle, New South Wales. He said a group of spiders later gathered around the snake.
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