{"id":4232,"date":"2013-08-14T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T09:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2013-08-19T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:15:17","slug":"redback-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/redback-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Redback Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4180\" alt=\"20130816 020\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-020-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-020-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-020.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We have had a big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csiro.au\/Outcomes\/Environment\/Biodiversity\/Redback-Spiders.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">redback spider<\/a> living in the house compost bin for the last year. \u00a0I am surprised it survives in there as it would be pitch dark when the lid is closed, which is most of the time. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think it can get out and it is safer to leave it be. Redbacks stay hidden when they can and are not aggressive like the wolf spiders. \u00a0They usually scuttle away if you disturb them.\u00a0\u00a0It probably keeps the numbers of flies down in the bin. This one is an immature female and still has the white marks of a juvenile on its abdomen.\u00a0 The redback spider is\u00a0one of the most dangerous spiders in Australia with a powerful neurotoxic venom. \u00a0 Apparently the bites can cause severe pain for at least 24 hours, but I am not going to test the theory. \u00a0(Since the anti-venom was developed in 1956, there have been no recorded deaths.) \u00a0 \u00a0They are related to the black widow spider. \u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Redback_spider\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia:<\/a> The redback is one of the few arachnids which display sexual cannibalism after mating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a big redback spider living in the house compost bin for the last year. \u00a0I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-020.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}