Not sure if I should be more concerned that I have snakes around, or more concerned that I have spiders who are capable of hunting them and dragging them up into my garage roller doors. I have also found a scorpions almost a meter up from the ground in their webbing
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Are you sure they’re getting dragged up by something, rather than ending up there on their own and then getting stuck/trapped/bitten and dying?
I think spiders are pretty good engineers with their webs and have ways of using their webs to lift things that would surprise you.
Like attach some webs to the thing you want to lift and anchor them to several places that are close, then wrap another web around those webs and pull that wrap tight and you reduce the length of the webs holding the thing, so it lifts up. Then attach new webs to your main web at several places and wind another web around those ones to pinch them together. Repeat until the thing is as high as you want to get it.
And that’s assuming they don’t set up multiple pulley-like systems to lift heavy things like we do.
Apparently they do though: https://www.livescience.com/spiders-hoist-prey-with-pulleys.html
Mostly. I have a split panel garage door that I figure would be pretty difficult for a snake to climb up. Same with the Scorpion which was about a meter up a window pane, and I figure scorpions don’t really climb glass.
That’s fair, though I still think you’d be surprised at where these kinds of creatures can get in to… Either way - I would not be messing with those spiders lol
black widows catch and eat snakes
Yeah, we have black widows, brown widows, funnel webs, orb spiders, rain spiders (palystes) and whatever the hell this ugly thing is:
I feel like the previous owner should’ve had a legal obligation to report this on the conditions of sale document…
This is an Australian one but looks pretty much the same.
Oh, this comment just made me realize something. With climate change and the global transport network, Australia’s deadly wildlife (and less deadly but still intimidating huntsman spiders) won’t be contained to Australia forever. And OP’s photo might be evidence that containment has already failed.
Should we nuke Australia before it’s too late? Or is it already too late? Will the second Emu war and WWIII be the same thing, only this time the emus will start it by invading other continents? Should we just give them some land on each continent to hopefully preemptively appease them? Or will that just enbolden them?