If someone else doubts the existence of spiders that feed on warm-blooded creatures, then here is proof that this is not a figment of the imagination and not scenes from a horror movie about the jungle of South America …
Proof of the existence of such monsters is in the photographs that one of families in Australia, who witnessed a heartbreaking spectacle right in the yard of their own home. The weaver spider managed to catch a finch in its nets … The unfortunate man, apparently, got entangled in a web on the fly - one of the poor thing's wings remained open.
Mr. Joel Shakespeare, a spider expert from the Australian Wildlife Sanctuary, says: 'This particular spider can grow larger than a human hand, so if the bird is caught in the net, I am not surprised that he will eat it … First he uses poison to kill the finch, and then wrap it in a net, as in a bag for preserving food …"
Biologists say that spider weavers manage to build sometimes very strong nets … But they do not attack the victim until it becomes weak enough …