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Daddy-long-legs spider wins lopsided battle with deadly snake

[A daddy-long-legs spider crawls down a brown snake in Australia / The Aussie Farmer/Facebook]

They’re often considered harmless, but one daddy-long-legs spider in Australia is showing that they too should be feared.

Aussie farmer Patrick Lees snapped this photo last past weekend when he noticed a venomous brown snake caught in the web of spider on his farm, reports ABC.

“I’ve heard about it, but I’ve never seen it, let alone a daddy-long-legs,” Lees told ABC.

“People have this idea that everything in the bush is trying to kill you, but this took it to the next level,” Lees wrote to Mashable. “I just thought it was a classic Australia moment and had to share it.”

The snake was already dead when discovered, a juvenile measuring about 30 centimetres.

Lees decided to leave the snake alone, as a group of the eight-legged arachnids had already begun encasing the brown snake in web.

“I’m not going to deny them their victory,” Lees told ABC.