spider wins over a snake?

check this out, i found this while i was surfing for newsletter ideas for my sister. it's from http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/spider/spidersnake.htm



here's the story:

Spider snacks on snake
11/02/2004 22:23

Bloemfontein, Africa - An office receptionist got the shock of her life earlier this week when she found a 14cm long Aurora house snake entangled in the web of a deadly spider.

Tania Robertson, a receptionist at an electrical firm in Bloemfontein, came in to work on Tuesday and spotted the strange sight next to a desk in her office.

The snake, which had obviously died from the spider's poisonous bite, was off the ground and caught up in the web.

Leon Lotz of the arachnology department at the National Museum immediately identified the spider as a female brown button spider.

The brown button spider, easily identifiable by a red hourglass marking on its stomach, is not quite as deadly as a black widow.

He said it was only the second time in South Africa that he had heard of a snake getting caught in a spider's web.

A 14cm long Aurora house snake that got entangled in the web of a deadly spider. (Charles Smith, Volksblad)
Rod Douglas from the herpetology department identified the snake as being a young, non-poisonous Aurora house snake. It is believed the snake got caught in the web on Monday night. But it did not take the spider long to bite it.A red mark on the snake's stomach was evidence of where the spider had started eating it.

Throughout Tuesday, the spider checked on her prey, but on Wednesday she rolled it up and started spinning a web around it. She also kept lifting it higher off the ground, while continually snacking on it. Even a fly that accidentally landed on the snake was chased off aggressively.








that's a tough one hehe...

since two days ago, i always arrive in the office with beads of sweat on my face, but that's the safest way so i can't complain. last night bambi and i went to seef mall to buy his basketball shoes because his 2 big toes are now black from wearing his old sneakers for playing basketball... this man takes a lot of time looking for the best shoes! we went home with two shoes for me, and none for him. he will buy this week though, in adliya, with kuya dom. i asked him last week what day we will go, but i heard him yesterday talking to kuya dom on the phone what day they will go there. the brat!


i finished the winner's poster at 10.30 am YYAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOOOOO!!!! im not going to the draw, im not goig to the draw!!! i told our boss its too scary being surrounded by many people during the draw and its not safe for me anymore, unlike before when we held it in malls, and he allowed me not to take pictures anymore.... im so happy!! this is the first thursday that im gonna have a real half-day. we only have one whole-day off here in bahrain, that's friday, sort of like their sunday, and thursdays are halfdays, but since the draw began last year (september) i only have the friday off. bambi also has one day-off only, and sometimes he's harrassed to go to work even on a day-off, thanks to his 'kind' boss. his off is tuesday so we hardly have time to go out because of different day-off's. so sometimes when he's morning shift that's when we go to ate wendy's house to swim.


last july at ate wendy's house


with kuya jun and icey


or if he's night shift i go to their shop after work.

after his contract there we're gonna find a job that has the same off as mine. too bad that automotive job he first applied didn't have visa that time.


later im just gonna chill out in the afternoon (and watch the sunshine again and enjoy my half day, tomorrow i have to do the laundry and clean the house, hey, is there any poisonous spiders here in bahrain? yiii, i hope not to find one in our house.






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