The Secret Life of Australia's Most FAMOUS Spider: The Redback
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Meet a spider that, I think it's safe to say, is a long overdue feature on this channel: Latrodectus hasselti, the Redback. A close relative of the infamous Black Widows, L. hasselti is arguably Australia's most iconic spider, and along with the funnel-webs, is one of the few species armed with potentially dangerous venom. However, there's more to this spider than merely a lethal bite, and in this video, we'll be exploring the other facets of a Redback's life.
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Note to self: don’t record videos during peak hour traffic. Especially when you live next to a highway…
God I hate background noise.
There are different kinds of mics that can help with this. I use the Sony ICD-UX570 recorder and set it's sensitivity for speech and to minimum.
On a different note, funny you upload this now since I'm in Texas in the USA and found two female Latrodectus mactans in my front yard last week and one of them had an egg sac. I took them away and moved them to a small wildlife reserve about a mile or two away. The female with the egg sac required me to get out a dremel tool and cut the bark off the tree she was on to carefully get her out and then she really was not cooperative with the idea of moving, but I did eventually finesse her out with her egg sac. In the small temporary enclosure, she moved the sac to the top corner and secured it there and stayed on it. They are apparently caring mothers. I made sure she had a good place to go when I moved her to her new home and gave her her egg sac, which she promptly moved to a sheltered area where she resides now. I need to go check on her soon. They're great spiders to keep if you have the know-how, though right now I have no desire to keep them. I might tell you the story of the first Latrodectus I kept last year. She sure was beautiful.
You should do an episode on the theoretical death crawler centipede just for fun not that's true but it would just be fun to have an episode on it
Brother, be honest: how often do you have to readjust the lady on your face between takes?
This video, not at all
Also, the footage in this video is excellent!
Thanks! A cheap clip-on macro lens works wonders.
Around 1968? my father took us out getting firewood around Bendigo, Victoria in the Whipstick. While we were unloading the trailer I spotted a large redback, except it's BODY was orange, and the STRIPE was black.
I have loved learning more about insects since I was in the 3rd grade. I am in mid high school now and studying these fascinating creatures will NEVER get old to me. Never stop exploring! 👊 🕷️ 🌳
It really is a lifelong passion. Can't see myself ever getting bored of it either!
This time it’s spiders though.
@@nablamakabama488 I love spiders, they are definitely my favorite to learn about!
would have been funny if each time you cut back to showing the spider on your face, you had more and more bandaids...
Australia's animals are 😱,but A tier for well-protective.
Australian animals are mostly pretty overrated honestly.
Amazing spider, as is our Black Widow spider in the states. Does Australia have any counterpart to the Red Widow Spider we have-mainly in our southern states like Florida? It's also beautiful, but aggressive.
There is a brown widow here, they are all relatively similar from my understanding
The invasive Brown Widow and some false widows here (southern US).
Flip over something that as been on the grass outdoors for a couple months they’ll be there. im in Vic, always a good way to spice up some yard work
fucked up love life...sound familiar 😛
cheers mate up in bris been a good while since i seen a redback weird they were common as 15 years ago
Pardon me, but you have a giant spider on your head.
This was a fantastic video Jackson, one of the best Latrodectus biology videos I’ve seen on here, honestly. I love that you, as you say, told the other 99% of the story of what these spiders do all day, I want to see a lot more videos looking at traditionally feared animals in this way, and I’d love to make some in that style too. Cool that you finally got to find one after so long, I know well the feeling of a supposedly common subject alluding me for years while everyone else trips over them. Great stuff!
That’s awesome to hear, and I always look forward to seeing your comments!
It is an odd feeling being eluded by a supposedly common animal. The Red Triangle Slug was a big one in that regard.
Umm, sir, I'm not sure you're aware, but, I thought I'd let you know that there was a gigantic spider on your face during, like, the whole video.
Yeah that’s just my cohost.
She works hard
It spins me out to hear that you've hardly seen a redback in your life.
Growing up for me redbacks were common knowledge from a very young age. And you saw them everywhere. I am from Perth, so quite a different climate to Queensland.
I live in Victoria and have been aware of and seen many redback spiders in my 50+ years.
They are also everywhere in NSW.
Doesn't surprise me to hear that. I figured they were just an Australia wide thing, but apparently not as common in tropical areas? I only mentioned Perth since it's the other side of Australia and pretty isolated.
Im so glad you did this video Ive seen many but particularly enjoyed your presentation 😂❤🕷🕸
Jackson you've picked an absolutly gorgeous spider to film good on you mate
Woo hoo I've been hanging out for this !😊 Chuffed!
Would you be interested in doing a video speaking about all the different Funnel Webs you have and their care?
Crab spiders as well.
I don’t really keep funnel-webs anymore, but I’m definitely still down to make informative videos about them.
How would I find mygalomorphs? I've never managed to get my hands on one or even see a burrow that would've been made by one.
I lived in a house at Packwood at the Gold Coast that had thousands living in the ceiling
Cellar spiders are highly underrated. I recently had one living with her egg sac in my downstairs loo. She hatched out around 65 young. Stayed protecting them from two other spiders for a week or so. Before everyone completely disappeared. Hopefully one of her offspring will repeat the cycle next year. ❤
There's a Redback on the toilet seat , when I was there last night, I didn't see him in the dark but boy I felt his bite , haha , my Auntie, God bless her , was bitten by a Redback on the toilet seat one night in 1935 ,in Broken Hill. She was ok , but trust me , boy she felt his bite , , A Legend is the Red back , 1n 1960 every one knew , The Redback , the Hunsman and the Daddy long legs , cheers B'n' B . Ric
I live in Adelaide, Australia, and I could find at least one redback spider in my backyard on any day. But it is the white tip spider that worries me.
Honestly one of my favourite species. also owning funnelwebs, huntsman's and plenty of others. The redback is by far my favourite just the sheer beauty of it and the impressive web. They are a really nice bedside table pet 😂😂. Great video
They really are a fun spider to keep, especially when it’s feeding time.
Considering how badly Pholcidea preforms against steatoda (false widows; not sure on spelling) it is surprising that they can even sometimes contest their sisters the "true" widows. This seems less true here in the USA from what I've read. Do you think this is because American widows are bigger than redbacks or because Australia's cellar spiders (aka daddy-long-legs aka Pholcidea) are built different?
Let this be a call for more cellar spider videos if nothing else.
Umm excuse sir,
There is a spider on your face
Great video! The footage you used was excellent, and the information you provided was great! And as always, the humor was a nice addition
Happy to finally see this species on the channel! As someone who's yet to see any lactrodectus, you're sparse experience is still enviable. The idea that they might've been introduced is an interesting one despite most likely being false like you said. It's crazy how quickly animals can adapt to syanthropy. Also had no clue they existed outside of Australia.
Cellar Spider coming in clutch as always
🙏🏼Thanks to you and your co-host 🕷 for presenting interesting, and different, information about Redbacks 🕸
Cheers Ambrose. Was definitely worth presenting them from a different angle; a lot of Redback/Widow spider videos are pretty samey.
0:49 lol you talking casually while Godzilla is crawling on your face. That’s gold
It’s a recurring thing on this channel now. Never get tired of the comments haha
Eye spider....
Bugs And Biology which show do you watch Beast Wars or Wordgirl?
Neither
I had a giant one that lived in my bedroom for about 3 years behind a picture frame on the floor and it never moved from the 1 spot the whole time and it always caught the bugs that came into my room. Not a spider to be scared of I could sleep with it in my room and it wouldn't crawl anywhere near me they just like their own comfy spot
Yeah once they’ve settled they’re usually content to stay in the same spot unless disturbed. All in all very inoffensive spiders.
I had a pet redback spider when I was 8 years old.
They do make for very interesting pets. Super easy to keep too.
Do you like the 😂 scenes of the Secret Life of Pets 2?
Never watched it
Do you know there is a centipede that mimic millipede is call: EDENTISTOMA
I have heard of that genus, yes
@@BugsandBiology than why didn't you review about that centipede yet because this is the first time that I heard about a centipede that can mimic millipede, the second is a centipede that have poison gland like millipede
Y'know it's gunna be good when the first frame is a St. Andrew's Cross spider
They’re beautiful spiders
@@BugsandBiologyMost certainly. I've had a fascination for spiders since I was 11, my favourite of all being Argiope Keyserlingi.
𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟. 𝑊𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡! 𝑊𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒? 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ.
I hope that you love it Down Under, and have an awesome experience here 🙌🏼
@@AdventureswithAmbrose 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ. 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑒. 𝐷𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟.
Mate go look in your garden. I lived in Orange nsw, any damp place red backs were very where. Phh.
Redbacks being super common in your area doesn’t mean the same applies everywhere. Here in Brisbane they’re nowhere near as abundant.
I have lived on Gulgong road sunshine Coast for 16 years above Nambour on the range. Go out and getting wood and hit a paper wastp. Phh. You now nothing.
Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast aren’t the same place. Like I said before, a species being common in one locality doesn’t it them common everywhere.
I don’t even know what you were trying to say with the second sentence. Something about paper wasps?