A couple have photographed a giant female redback spider who caught a deadly brown snake in her web in their garage, which it then liquefied with her venom and drank.

Paul and Bernadette Gibbs, who live in Morpeth in the NSW Hunter Valley, are used to encountering black and brown snakes, redback spiders and eastern water dragons around their home due to their home's proximity to the Hunter River.

But when they opened the door to their garage they found something they had never seen before, a large triumphant redback spider with a deadly juvenile eastern brown snake hanging in her web.

It is the third time Daily Mail Australia has uncovered photographs or video footage of a redback trapping a brown snake in its web.

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Gotcha: A large female redback spider trapped a deadly eastern brown snake it is web inside the garage in Morpeth in the NSW Hunter Valley of Paul and Bernadette Gibbs who photographed the scene

It's not the first time residents have photographed the aftermath of a victorious redback spider over an eastern brown snake and expert Craig Adams said the large female (above) would liquefy and drink the snake

Redback spiders, like the large female which trapped the brown snake in Paul and Bernadette Gibbs' garage 'stick out their abdomen towards their prey and squirt out their web over them, tie them up, envenomate the prey and then drink the tissue'

In mid-March a Kalgoorlie woman captured images of this eastern brown snake losing its battle to a redback spider in a garage which she dubbed the 'most Australian thing ever - a battle between a spider and a snake'

Bernadette and Paul Gibbs outside their garage in Morpheth in the NSW Hunter Valley where they found the remains of an epic battle of a victorious redback spider over an eastern brown snake

Bernadette Gibbs in the garage where she and husband Paul found the giant female redback spider which had trapped and killed an eastern brown snake which redbacks consume by dissolving its flesh with their venom

Just two weeks ago, West Australian mother-of-three Jamii-Leigh Marwick posted footage on Facebook of a brown snake twisting in a redback's web in a garage. The video has had 37,800 views on YouTube.

Shown Mr and Mrs Gibbs' photograph of the redback victory over the brown snake, spider and snake Craig Adams said the redback was a large female which had obviously lived in a spot where it was well-fed on its usual diet of insects.

Mr Adams and his wife Jackie run sssafe.com.au, a snake and spider safety awareness business advising workers such as construction and mining industry staff, told Daily Mail Australia redbacks were 'very good web throwers, like Spiderman' to target and trap their prey'.

He wondered if the snake had been disabled by a neighbourhood cat before it entered the female redback's lair, but Mr Gibbs said the garage had been closed.

The banded juvenile brown snake would have been one of the few creatures, apart from the spider, to have able to slither under the gap of the closed door.

Snake and spider safety expert Craig Adams said said the redback was a large female which had obviously lived in a spot where it was well-fed on its usual diet of insects

Craig Adams and his wife Jackie (pictured) advise construction and mining workers about how to handle wildlife and what to do if they are bitten by a snake or a redback, which is Ms Adams area of speciality

Craig Adams, pictured lecturing workers on how to handle a bit by a venomous snake, said that brow snakes were particularly lethal because of few initial symptoms and that victims could suddenly collapse and die

'Once the spider was able to overcome the snake, the venom of the spider would start to dissolve the snake's tissue and they would drain it out,' Mr Adams said.

'They would pierce the snake's exoskeleton [or skin] , which it would not eat, liquefy the tissue and basically drink it.

'The venom works as a digestive aid and then they drain it, the same as they do with insects. You wouldn't want to be a bug for quids.'

Redback spiders and eastern brown snakes are two of Australia's most venomous creatures which have other lethal qualities which make them as dangerous as those with the most deadly toxins, the funnel web spiders and the inland taipan.

Mr Adams said spiders were 'not prey preference' for snakes, but snakes were able to consumed by spiders.

Jamii-Leigh Marwick's son Eamon found the venomous eastern brown snake (right) caught in the web of a redack spider (left) at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia

'He's angry, he's cranky,' the woman can be heard saying in the footage she filmed of the brown snake caught up in the redback spider's web

'Redbacks pump out a lot of web and they are very effective at throwing it at prey,' Mr Adams said.

'They stick out their abdomen towards their prey and squirt out their web over them and tie them up. 'Once they've trapped their prey, they can do anything they like by envenomating it.

REDBACK SPIDERS Redback spiders can be lethal to humans and have killed 13 Australians in last 20 years. They kill insects by squirting web at prey, encasing them and piercing their exoskeleton with venom which liquidises the tissue, which the redback then drains or drinks to feed. Large female redbacks have trapped and killed juvenile eastern brown snakes. Symptoms when bitten for humans include profuse sweating on bite site, aching legs, headaches, intense shivering and malaise for days or longer. Treatment is redback anti-venom. Advertisement

'If a human is stung by a redback, the patch of hair on their skin at the site of the bite stands bolt upright and they sweat profusely on that spot while staying dry elsewhere.

'Then you get referred pain in your legs and the symptoms might develop over hours or days.'

Brown snakes were the third deadliest land snake venom wise, but the most dangerous in Australia because they were 'widespread, well adapted to most habitats including the urban backyard and they have a difficult temperament'.

'They are an extremely volatile species,' Mr Adams said. 'They react poorly to being disturbed, and they can cause fatalities because the only physical injury is a pinprick scratch and there's no immediate symptoms like sweating, burning or itching.

'But they cause a profound and rapid thinning of the blood which means a person can suddenly collapse from a heart attack, organ bleed or brain bleed.'

When Jamii-Leigh Marwick and one of her three children, son Eamon found an eastern brown snake caught in a redback spider's web in mid March, Ms Marwick managed to film footage on her phone

The video shows the juvenile snake whipping back and forth as it tried to free its tail from the redback's web at their home in Kalgoorlie, 600km east of Perth.

'So what we have here is a little snake and a red back,' Ms Marwick can be heard commentating on the vision, posted to her Facebook page.

Her children can be heard speaking in the background, and the Kalgoorlie woman remains calm despite the snake rearing its head at her while trying to escape.

Ms Marwick said she initially tried to rescue the snake, but 'if he's been bitten he's screwed anyway, he may as well be dinner'.

'He's angry, he's cranky,' Ms Marwick can be heard saying before telling her kids 'we're going to leave him alone guys'.

The juvenile eastern brown snake flailed around as it tried to escape the clutches of the redback spider's web in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Redback spider expert Jackie Adams and her husband, snake expert Craig Adams, run a business sssafe.com.au advising mining, construction and other workers how to handle snakes, spiders and their bites

Ms Marwick said in the end while she was trying to rescue the reptile, before she realised how dangerous it was, she actually killed it.

'In my attempt to save him... I accidentally dropped a jar on the poor bloke and he didn't survive,' she wrote online.

EASTERN BROWN SNAKES Eastern brown snakes are Australia's third most toxic reptile, but the country's deadliestin terms of deaths. What makes them so dangerous is they are 'widespread, well adapted to most habitats including the urban backyard and volatile, with a tendency to strike when disturbed. They can cause fatalities because the only physical injury is a pinprick scratch and there's no immediate symptoms like sweating, burning or itching. But they cause a profound and rapid thinning of the blood which means a person can suddenly collapse from a heart attack, organ bleed or brain bleed. Spiders are not their prey, but spiders can eat them by liquefying their flesh and drinking it . Advertisement

'The spider is now also no longer a threat.'

The video attracted more than 6000 views, and dozens of comments from friends and family marvelling at the battle.

'That's the most Australian thing I've ever seen. Google snake caught in spider Web. This is SO common is scary,' one woman posted.

'My two pet hates snake and spider,' another wrote

'You are a better person than me, I would not have got that close to both of them I would have run and I say to that I would not of gone back to the shed.'

Incredibly an earlier battle between a redback and a brown snake had been recorded on video.

In March last year, a Victorian farmer was astonished to find an enormous redback spider had lifted an eastern brown snake off the ground and 'hurled it' into its web under one of the his family's cars.

'It's just mindboggling,' Neale Postlethwaite, a farmer of 20 years from Gooroc, north of Melbourne, said at the time.