Here is the mum

Here is the mother of all those hatchlings, it seems they must belong to the Redback as she hasn't eaten any of them
also what she has wrapped up for dinner

Rick

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Wonderful shots- she looks like an egg-laying machine.
Brian V.

Interesting that the babies and parent are so different.

LordV wrote in post #18519804
Wonderful shots- she looks like an egg-laying machine.
Brian V.

She is, she will do up to 8 egg sacks

Lester Wareham wrote in post #18519809
Interesting that the babies and parent are so different.

I thought that too but did some googling and found out that I was correct and these are the babies

Rick

PS
if you didn't already know she is one of Australia's deadliest spiders

Interesting. The body shape looks like our black widow. Was wondering if it was deadly. I like the first image the best.

stevendillonphoto wrote in post #18522434
Interesting. The body shape looks like our black widow. Was wondering if it was deadly. I like the first image the best.

They are related to the Black widow and some say more poisonous, we haven't had any fatalities in australia since they developed an anti-venom

Rick