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| | Redback Spiders |
 | | Many of these spiders have a similar life history and habits to the Redback Spider. | | | Forster, L. The behavioural ecology of Latrodectus hasselti (Thorell), the Australian Redback Spider (Araneae: Theridiidae): a review. | | | Female Redback Spiders are black (occasionally brownish) with an obvious orange to red longitudinal stripe on the upper abdomen, with the red stripe sometimes being broken, and an "hourglass" shaped red/orange spot on the underside of the abdomen. |
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http://www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/redback.htm
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| | Spider Identification Chart |
| | Spider Identification - an adult is 15 mm to 30 mm in body length - mottled grey to brown in colour, with a distinct Union Jack impression on it's back. | | | Spider Identification - adult size varies 12 to 20 mm in body length - grey to black in colour with a white section on the end of it's tail - as illustrated. | | | Habitat - this spider is a ground dweller, with a burrow retreat lined with silk of up to 250 mm in depth and around 25 mm in width - prefers nesting in drier exposed locations - often has a wafer-like lid on the burrow entrance. |
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http://www.anoble.com.au/Spiders/SpiderID.htm
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| | CSL Antivenom Handbook - Red Back Spider Antivenom |
| | In infants, general miserableness, refusal of feeds, inconsolable crying, and sometimes a non specific erythematous rash are key features of red back spider bite. | | | Red back spiders usually build webs under objects, with droplines to the ground or other flat surface, thus they may commonly be found under lower shelves, the bottom rails of fence lines, in refuse areas, especially old car bodies, even on the underside of seats left outside and in the recesses of cupboards indoors! | | | Red back spider bite is one of the few cases where antivenom may be effective days after the bite. |
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http://www.toxinology.com/generic_static_files/cslavh_antivenom_redback.html
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| | TERMITES FABRIC PESTS COCKROACHES SPIDERS RODENTS ANTS FLEAS WASPS |
| | nderstanding spiders makes it easier to recognise their important role in the environment. | | | Here is some information on our most notorious local spiders. | | | Spiders such as the common wolf spider run down their prey as would a wolf, whilst a trapdoor spider will lay in wait in its burrow until some prey happens past. |
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http://home.iprimus.com.au/kellijones/Spiders.htm
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| | Cryptozoology.com |
| | I found a black spider that is very similar to the Australian red back spider. | | | Problem is, it looks more like the brown recluse in size and shape, as it did not have the body shape of the Australian red back or the similar type black widow spider, i.e. | | | It had an elongated red rectangle on its back, and the rectangle was quite wide and not just a simple streak down it's back. |
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http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=8&pid=157654
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| | Spiders |
| | Write a narrative from the spider's point of view: pretend that an eight year old owns you. | | | Find out what kind of spider you have. | | | Write a narrative with you as the main character - a spider |
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http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/lessons/spider3.html
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| | Spider Bite First Aid |
| | The fangs of a Red-Back Spider are tiny and it's bite may often go unnoticed, but, often a sharp pin-prick may be felt. | | | As the venom of the red-back and other spiders moves very slowly, any attempt to restrict its progress would only serve to increase the associated pain, which can be excruciating. | | | The patient should be kept calm and reassured; all undue movement should be avoided. |
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http://www.anoble.com.au/Spiders/FirstAid.htm
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| | Spider Venom |
| | The venom from the female red-back spider is known as a multi-component because it is made up of a family of protein toxins, the latrotoxins being the most prominent. | | | While the female is large and distinctive with her shiny black body and bright red abdominal stripe (though not all specimens posses this marking), the male red-back is small and insignificant and has a complex pattern including white and, occasionally, yellow markings. | | | The antivenom for the Sydney funnel-web spider has also proved to be effective for various other species of funnel-web. |
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http://www.reptilepark.com.au/venom_spider.asp
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| | Red Back Spider - Latrodectus hasseltti |
| | The most effective way to control Red Back Spider is to find them out and distort, and then discourage their existing by their natural enemies. | | | The Red Back Spider is considered the most dangerous is because they live within human habitation. | | | The young female Red Back spiders have the red marks in orange colour and with a white edge around it. |
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http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_weavers/Red_Back.htm
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| | RED BACK Spider Red Hat Society Red Backs Chapter of Sydney creativMAUVE |
| | The female Red-back has a spherical satin-black abdomen with an orange-red stripe (or sometimes pink or even light grey). | | | The fangs of this spider are quite small and its bite may often go unnoticed, but often a sharp pinprick may be felt. | | | The Red Hat Society began in the USA, as a result of a few women deciding to greet middle age with verve, humor, and elan. |
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http://www.creativmauve.com/redhatsociety/Red_Back_Spider_page.htm
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| | Red Back Spider and other Australian Spiders |
| | The redback spider is not a large spider the body being about the size of my thumb nail. | | | The female red back Spider is distincitve by the red stripe on her back while the mail is black all over. | | | In the UK we don't get the Red Back Spider or any dangerous spiders (well unless they are in a zoo or perhaps being kept as pets) but in Australia it is different. |
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http://www.immigrate-to-a-new-life-in-perth.com/red-back-spider.html
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| | Auz Astrology - The Australian Animal Zodiac |
| | Red Back Spider could do well with the Cockatoo influence and develop into a much less demanding and hot-tempered biting individual. | | | The resulting nature of this person would be predominantly kind. | | | This combination would need careful handling as a young child, and the nature would improve as the influences of Jupiter develop. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/wi/innerwisdom/auzastrology.html
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| | Red-back spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most Australians dislike the red-back spider, even more than other dangerous spiders, thanks in part to the frequency with which it is encountered in the environs of human habitations (it managed to secure a footing in Australian folklore in 1972 when it was immortalised in the song "Redback on the Toilet Seat" by Ralph Newton). | | | The red-back spider is one of only two animals to date where the male has been found to actively assist the female in sexual cannibalism. | | | The male red-back is three to four millimetres long and is light brown in colour with white markings on the upper side of the abdomen. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-back_spider
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| | Spiders |
| | The spider in the photos by Laurie Grover on July 8, 2003 could be a juvenile female Latrodectus hasselti (redback spider) or a juvenile female Latrodectus hesperus (western black widow). | | | You can see by the size of the caterpillar compared to the red back, what a feat it was for the spider to wrap it and lift it off the ground several centimetres. | | | She is shiny black has an hour glass on the abdomen, red stripe on her back, I killed one that looked like an baby one light brown with a red strip. |
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http://www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au/redblack.htm
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| | Insect & Spider Bites |
| | The red-back spider is only the size of a pea and is black with a reddish stripe on it’s back. | | | Bites from other spiders are seldom fatal, however some are at risk - infants, the elderly, and people with allergies. | | | Seek medical help urgently - this spider is life threatening. |
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http://www.privateintranet.com/healthcontent/ailmentsanddiseases/insect_and_spider_bites.htm
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| | Queensland Museum - Spiders - The Redback Spider - Identification |
| | Also, the legs are thicker than the diameter of a matchstick, whereas the legs of the Redback Spider are much thinner. | | | The Red House Spider - a small spider in the same family as the Redback - resembles the Redback in size, shape and general colour. | | | The abdomen of the female Redback becomes engorged when she is about to lay eggs, expanding to about 10 mm in diameter. |
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http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/features/spiders/redback-id.asp
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| | Spiders |
| | Only a few of the more than 2000 spiders in Australia are dangerous: these include the red-back spider, the Sydney funnel-web spider and white-tailed spiders. | | | When the eggs hatch the baby spiders, called spiderlings, shed their skins as they grow. | | | Other spiders such as the wolf spiders and the large bird-eating spider look fierce but are not usually a danger to people. |
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http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/spiders.htm
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| | eMedicine - Spider Envenomations, Redback : Article by Simon GA Brown, MD |
| | Because life-threatening reactions to redback spider antivenom are extremely rare, premedication currently is not given unless antivenom is to be administered intravenously for severe envenomation or unless the patient has a history of horse serum allergy. | | | Background: The redback spider belongs to the genus Latrodectus (the widow spiders) and is found throughout Australia where it also is called the jockey spider and is known by Aborigines as the murra-ngura, kapara, or kana-jeri. | | | The female has a very small cephalothorax, a large round abdomen that usually bears a bright red or orange dorsal stripe, and a ventral hourglass mark that is characteristic of widow spiders throughout the world. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic549.htm
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| | Clinical Practice Guidelines |
| | Red back spider antivenom may have arole in treatment, but as yet this is uncertain. | | | Following premedication with Adrenaline 0.005 ml/kg of 1 in 1000 subcutaneously (=5mcg/kg), I ampoule of red back spider antivenom is given intramuscularly. | | | It has been assumed that spider bite is the cause and the common white-tailed spider has been often quoted as the cause - recent evidence suggests this is untrue, and that white-tailed spider bites may be quite painful and itchy but they cause only minor tissue inflammation and no necrosis. |
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http://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/cpg.cfm?doc_id=5195
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| | Australian Spider and Insect Bites |
| | Of all the thousands of Australian spiders, arthropods and insects, only three have bites which alone are capable of causing death - the funnel-web spider (and related atrax species), the red back spider and the paralysis tick. | | | The red back specific anti-venom is reliable and is given to around 250 cases each year. | | | The adult female red back is about 2-3 cm long, quite black, with a distinctive red stripe on its abdomen. |
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http://www.usyd.edu.au/anaes/venom/spiders.html
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| | Family Theridiidae, Comb-Footed Spiders |
| | The body shape looks like a Red-back Spider. | | | Red Back spiders build a tangled web on the wall, rubbish and old furniture in the garden. | | | In the second photo notice that there is the male Red back Spider which is smaller in size. |
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http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_weavers/Theridiidae.htm
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| | Wildlife of Sydney - Fact File - Redback Spider |
| | The Redback Spider is found all over Australia in open bushland, but is especially common in urban areas. | | | As a member of the 'widow' group of spiders, the Redback Spider is also famous for the male's suicidal tendencies. | | | As one of a number of spiders that prefer inhabited areas, and because it often builds its web in places like bins, sheds or outhouses, the Redback frequently comes into contact with humans, especially during the summer months. |
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http://faunanet.gov.au/wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=82
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| | Home-The Danger of Red Back Spiders and Toads |
| | Red Back Spiders often bite cats on the tongue. | | | Red Back Spiders mate in December and January. | | | If you suspect a Red Back Spider, a toad or anything else has poisoned your pet, you will have a good chance of saving its life with prompt action. |
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http://www.petalia.com.au/Templates/StoryTemplate_Process.cfm?specie=Small_Pets&story_no=279
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| | Latrodectus hasseltii (The Red-back Spider) |
| | Again this is a spider commonly found outdoors and around human habitation. | | | The spider lives most of its live near its web. | | | It also has the characteristic red hour-glass marking on underside of abdomen. |
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http://venomous-spiders.nanders.dk/hasseltii.htm
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| | Australian Museum Shop Online - Red-back Spider Paperweight |
| | The Red-back spider is found all across Australia, from Tasmania to the Simpson Desert. | | | Since the invention of an anti-venom in 1956, no-one in Australia has died from a Red-back bite. | | | But the venom of the species has proved fatal, so this spider must always be treated with caution. |
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http://www.amonline.net.au/shop/product.cfm?ItemID=NT34&customer=ECF48035-A20D-5F22-63C5F2E5F1B13E59
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| | Insect related Links |
| | Australian Spider and Insect Bites Of all the thousands of Australian spiders, arthropods and insects, only three have bites which alone are capable of causing death - the funnel-web spider (and related atrax species), the red back spider and the paralysis tick. | | | In harmony with neighbouring insects and spiders Japanese site includes How important bugs are in Japan's culture, pictures and info on common spiders and dozens of photos of webs | | | Spiders of Australia aims to show the common spiders of Queensland by means of color photos and some informative text |
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http://www.thaibugs.com/links.htm
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| | KBS Collection: Red Back Original |
| | Beer Name Means: A redback is an Australian spider (related to the Black Widow), and the red splash on its back is characteristic (hence its common name - the Red Back Spider). | | | From Ricko, richard.lamb@westfeild.co.nz Red Back's name comes from the poisonous "red back" spider, so called for its red dot on its black back. | | | Just before I went back to the bar to complain I noticed that the bottle no longer stated the "Original" Redback's alc percentage of 5.3% - it had somehow changed to 4.7%. |
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http://tuoppi.oulu.fi/kbs-bin/readbeer?Nr=1673
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| | Spider bites - eMJA: Debunking spider bite myths |
| | First aid for red back spider bites consists of the application of ice packs for | | | Detailed information on spider bites, including symptoms and treatment. | | | A doctor diagnosed the problem as a probable spider bite. |
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http://fisher-scientific.easylookfor.com/elf/fisher-scientific-spider-bites.htm
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| | The Truth About Spiders |
| | The widdow spiders typicaly cause illness, and are often known for the red hour glass marking on their backs. | | | The Red back spider is known for being similer in aperance to the black widdow spider, in fact the are close relatives. | | | The most feared out of all the spiders is the Tarantula. |
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http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/ashland.k12.mo.us/0405/82
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| | Elton Publications : Spiders |
| | The red-back spider is one of those dangerous spiders. | | | A very small child can even die because of a red-back spider bite. | | | Red backs are very closely related to New Zealand's night stinger and America's |
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http://www.elton.iinet.net.au/page68.html
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