Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Lair of The Redbacks

Otherwise known as my swag... Yes I opened it up and about four females and one male jumped out at me!!! I was lucky to survive. Okay that's a little dramatic but nonetheless there seems to be two plagues in the Alice. One, mice, absolutely everywhere. In fact the Mitre 10 around the corner from my old place literally had to buy trolley's full of them to sell. Two, Red Back spiders, a dangerous species that isn't often found in the desert. I managed to loose sight of all four but managed to get a pretty cool shot of an egg-sack and web. The egg sack is about the size of a small marble.

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  1. Yikes! Nasty little things. At least you saw them first.

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  2. So ... the swag had not been used for a while, hey?

    Now, let me get this straight about the meeces. Why would the Mitre-10 want to buy trolleys-full of dead or alive mice? Do lots of folk in Alice have pet snakes?

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  3. Okay I wrote that very late at night. Mice traps is what I meant. LOL so late at night when I finally got the internet up and running.

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  4. Nice blog. Red backs were fairly uncommon in Melbourne until last year. Since then I have several laird in my backyard.

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