Having grown up on a farm, Kyle Andrews is no stranger to snakes or spiders.

But he never expected to find two of the most venomous varieties entangled in a web underneath a car in his shed.

Mr Andrews was tidying up at his house in Two Wells, north of Adelaide, when he made the discovery yesterday afternoon, spotting a baby eastern brown snake with a redback spider on its tail.

“I thought I’d seen a piece of electrical cable caught up and hanging underneath the car,” he said.

“I went down for a bit of a closer look and reached out to grab it and then realised it was a small snake hanging from a spider’s web.

“The next thing I saw, there was a redback just part-way down the tail of the snake.”

With the time pressure of needing to take his daughter to a swimming lesson, Mr Andrews decided to take matters into his own hands.

“I was thinking of waiting to see if the snake could free itself and bugger off on its own but I realised it was totally stuck there,” he said.

“The snaked twitched a bit so I think the spider was biting it.

“I grabbed the nearest thing in the shed, which was a garden hose, and I scooped up the snake and flung it back out to where it had come from.”

It is not clear if the snake survived the ordeal, but Mr Andrews took no chances with the spider.

Snake catcher Jarrad Waye said it was crucial to “always call an expert” to handle any situation involving snakes, even baby ones.

The eastern brown snake is the world’s second-most venomous land snake, and babies have venom from the time they hatch. 

Mr Waye, who recently removed a red-bellied black snake from Marion Shopping Centre, said it was not uncommon to see a baby brown snake at this time of year.

“Baby brown snakes are everywhere at the moment; it’s that time of year where eggs are hatching,” he said.

Mr Waye said it was not uncommon for a redback spider to have the upper hand in this type of situation.

He said baby brown snakes were vulnerable to attacks from spiders or animals as they were left to fend for themselves after hatching.

“They [snakes] are not maternal, so they don’t sit there with their eggs,” he said.

“They’ll lay their eggs and they’ll have anywhere from 12 to 20 eggs and out of those eggs only about one or two will make it to adult life.”

Mr Andrews hopes the encounter was a freak event.

“[The shed] is tidy and clean and my little girl spends time playing in here — so a snake is not even on the radar,” he said.