Spiders kill snakes, hang corpses on the net to eat slowly

The corpse of a brown snake killed by a spider grass and hung on the network as a reserve food was discovered near a storage cellar in New South Wales, Australia.

Patrick Lees, a farmer in Weethalle, New South Wales, posted a photo of the brown spider's web hanging on the web on Facebook on February 15, attracting many comments and sharing. According to an expert on spiders, grass spiders (daddy longlegs) of the Phocidae family and the mild venom of this spider are not strong enough to kill a snake, Live Science reported.

The corpse was hung by grass spiders upside down.(Photo: Facebook).

"I have never seen spiders catch Pholcidae or other vertebrates but have seen lizards caught on the web of other spider species such as the black widow spider," Lorenzo Prendini, curator of the Spider and Stool Multidisciplinary industry in the Museum of Natural History, New York, USA, said. Prendini also said that although less toxic, the spider's venom is still strong enough to tame small vertebrate animals like brown snakes.

"I guess it could hurt the snake with a bite, or maybe the snake got caught in the spider's web and got stuck when trying to get out," said James Starrett, a spider expert at San Diego National University. , USA, share.

According to Prendini, the spider hung on the net to eat slowly. First, it injects enzymes into the solid body to digest from the outside. Liquefied enzymes for snake meat and spiders will suck this fluid, leaving skin and bones.