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michel921



There is my photos
michel921



wow!, those are some cool flies… i don like the spider one though i am arachniphobic ![]()
thank you for sharing the excellent result of your tying skill. Wow!
Wow!! Fantastic flies!!
And here I was just wondering if you’d figured out how to use Photobucket! I’d certainly say so!!!
I didn’t know you had redbacks over there… what do you call them?
I know a redback spider when I see one, and those are redbacks!
They are a venomous spider in Australia. Are they in the states?
Red-back spider
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Red-back spider
Female Red-back spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Latrodectus
Species: L. hasselti
Binomial name
Latrodectus hasselti
Thorell, 1870
The redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti) is a potentially dangerous spider native to Australia. It is a member of the genus Latrodectus or the widow family of spiders, which are found throughout the world. It is easily recognisable by its black body with prominent red stripe on its abdomen. Females measure about a centimetre in length while the male is smaller being only 3 to 4 milimetres long. The redback spider is one of few animals which display sexual cannibalism while mating.
Redbacks, along with Australasian funnel-web spiders (a category of spider which includes the notorious Atrax robustus, or Sydney funnel-web spider), are the most dangerous spiders in Australia. The redback spider has a neurotoxic venom which is toxic to humans with bites causing severe pain. There is an antivenom for redback bites commercially available.
Most Australians dislike the redback spider, 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 Slim Newton).[1]
Over here in the States…
we call those Black Widows…
here you go…
Wonderful flies Michel 921. You are a gifted fly tyer.
It amazes me the bugs that trout eat, and the fact that they enjoy venomous nasties on at least two continents fills me with wonder.
Have you caught anything on the spider flies?