Boy. While the snake appears to be an aurora house snake, the spider appears to be some form of button spider, but not the brown button. The Brown Button is, well... brown. It's a member of the latrodectus genus, but it's not a brown button.
The most likely candidate would be either l. cinctus (the east cape button spider) or l. indistinctus (the west cape button spider).
Here's a link the exact same pictures from 2008 that claims it took place in Australia: http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/spider-eats-snake.html
If that link is true, then the spider is most likely a redback spider (l. hasseltii).
Boy. While the snake appears to be an aurora house snake, the spider appears to be some form of button spider, but not the brown button. The Brown Button is, well... brown. It's a member of the latrodectus genus, but it's not a brown button.
The most likely candidate would be either l. cinctus (the east cape button spider) or l. indistinctus (the west cape button spider).
Here's a link the exact same pictures from 2008 that claims it took place in Australia: http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/spider-eats-snake.html
If that link is true, then the spider is most likely a redback spider (l. hasseltii).
The most likely candidate would be either l. cinctus (the east cape button spider) or l. indistinctus (the west cape button spider).
Here's a link the exact same pictures from 2008 that claims it took place in Australia: http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/spider-eats-snake.html
If that link is true, then the spider is most likely a redback spider (l. hasseltii).
Either way... KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/spider-catches-snake.shtml