The phenomenon of spiders preying on snakes is more common than researchers thought. Scientists have found more than 300 cases of 30 species of spiders preying on dozens of snake species. To the researchers' surprise, the snakes weighed hundreds of times heavier than the spiders that preyed on them. Let's take a look at the scary spider snake hunting feast.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > Black Widow likes to eat snacks</h1>
In georgia, a black widow spider is enjoying a meal from a juvenile scarlet snake. The venom of the Black Widow spider contains a toxin called α-latrotoxin, which targets the nervous system of vertebrates, allowing these spiders to kill prey many times larger than themselves.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > eyelash snake trapped</h1>
In Costa Rica, a very venomous eyelash snake is trapped in the web of a golden round web spider and cannot move. This snake is 40 cm long. Its venom may not have benefited in this case, and there is no record that the snake was able to successfully bite and inject venom into the spider.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > a meal in a lifetime</h1>
In Douglas, Georgia, a young oriental garter snake finds itself in a bad situation. Meanwhile, a brown widow spider is preparing for the most important meal of its life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > tarantula against snakes</h1>
It's a wonderful life-and-death showdown between spiders and snakes in the forests of the Brazilian state of Pará. A tarantula captures a juvenile spiny coral snake of the genus Pseudo coral snake and brings it back to its burrow. Tarantulas do not weave webs, but hunt on the ground or trees.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > eat juvenile snakes</h1>
An adult female black widow spider eats a young coral snake near the Boyce Thompson Botanical Garden in Superior, Arizona, USA. Most of the snakes that are successfully killed and eaten by spiders are juvenile snakes, although some snakes that are eaten by spiders are up to a meter long.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > vicious widow spider</h1>
About half of the reports of spiders killing snakes were caused by widow spiders. In Zaachila, Oaxaca, Mexico, a brown widow spider eats a hooked blind snake.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > Goliath giant bird-eating spider defeats a venomous snake</h1>
The spearhead viper is a pit viper whose venom is deadly to humans. However, in this photo taken in Venezuela, a tarantula known as a Goliath bird eater easily defeats and eats this dangerous venomous snake.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > the battle in the corridor</h1>
Spiders don't just hunt snakes in bizarre, wild places. The bright red scarlet snake was killed in a corner of a front porch in the Bay Breeze District of Florida, where a black widow opened a shop.