Another black Widow spider

[dr150]

if you have pets, kill those suckers. They love to spawn and will leave your house/garden full of them.

Their venom can kill your dog.

Also if you do a lot of gardening and regularly roam around dry, dark corners of your house, then you're at risk of feeling some serious cramp pains if bit.

 

[Robert Munch]

Towards the end of that slide it looks like the black widow sliced it's own lower half and ooze started coming out?

 

[zanemoseley]

I've found 3 outside my house the last few years, they don't see the next sunrise. Good news it they aren't very fast or aggressive that I can tell. Bad news is they hide in odd places. One I found underneath the lid on my large city trash can, that one scared the shit out of me. Another under the brick ledge of my house while I was gardening. Now I try to spray bug spray round the perimeter of my house several times a year.

 

[Fayd]

do you live in ramona or lakeside? I only see brown widow, not the black one in SD.

Poway.

yeah, brown widows have mostly pushed the black ones out, but i still see a few. just a couple days ago i was walking in my backyard at night and managed to kick a black widow's web. fucker came close to getting on me....though i imagine she was scared as hell.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Me too...inside or outside...if I see them, I kill them.

We've got them by the bazillions around here. While they're not a real threat to humans, their venomous bite can be deadly to our little rat-dogs.

should replace your dogs with honey badgers, they wouldn't give a shit

 

[AlienCraft]

Black widows rarely cause death. I worry more about brown recluses, which are more aggressive and harder to spot.

Every month or so I go out in the back yard at night with a flashlight to find the black widows. At night, they will always be waiting somewhere in the middle of the web.

Their webs are easy to find in the day. They look like the sh!ttiest webs ever, no particular shape, but strong and effective as hail, and usually have some leaves or something blown into them.

I was bit by a brown recluse and it gave me a Staph infection, along with the necrotising flesh. Awesome. Had huge boils for a couple of years, not so bad these days. Got me a private room though during my recent surgery.

 

[AlienCraft]

if you get bitten by a black widow, won't you become spider man? wasn't Peter Parker bitten by a black widow?

Irradiated if I recall correctly.

 

[mafia]

 

[Destiny]

When I was little my parents would not allow me to have pets... So I caught a black widow, put it in a jar, and fed it live insects... I kept the jar outside and I think it died over the summer when it got too hot...:'(