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In South Africa, the spider caught and ate a snake ... (4 photos)
Coming to work in his office, secretary electricity company «Bloemfontein» (South Africa) saw with horror in a corner cabinet 14 cm spider webs entwine busily caught the snake. The last one was ten times longer than a spider.
Over the next two days spider all Opletal Opletal and his victim, lifting it as high as possible above the floor, and after a long and leisurely ate it.
Expert on spiders Leon Lotz from the National Museum said that the snake eater is a female brown spotted spider of the genus black widows, which is pretty rare in South Africa, and surprisingly, it is not so toxic as the most famous representative of this kind.
According to Leon, before this incident he only heard once that these spiders can kill the snake. Photo by the way have been made already in 2004, but the press were only the other day.
Over the next two days spider all Opletal Opletal and his victim, lifting it as high as possible above the floor, and after a long and leisurely ate it.
Expert on spiders Leon Lotz from the National Museum said that the snake eater is a female brown spotted spider of the genus black widows, which is pretty rare in South Africa, and surprisingly, it is not so toxic as the most famous representative of this kind.
According to Leon, before this incident he only heard once that these spiders can kill the snake. Photo by the way have been made already in 2004, but the press were only the other day.
