Weird Black widow

[helomech]

I think the black widows are developing racing stripes.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii247/helomech1973/home/20120629_145050.jpg

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii247/helomech1973/home/20120629_145054.jpg

[ladyhk13]

I do hope you killed it dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[helomech]

yes I did

[ladyhk13]

I would have freaked out. Not much scares me but I do have a true fear of spiders. Childhood trauma.

[RedJohn]

I dunno where it comes from for me but I am less afraid to go for a stroll unarmed downtown Baghdad than be close to these insects.

[GunnerMax]

I read somewhere a couple weeks ago that some black widow's have the hourglass shape, but some do not.

[bacpacker]

When we built our place the BWs with hourglasses were all over. It been years since I have seen one since then. Never have saw one with those markings on them.

[Vodin]

http://bugguide.net/images/cache/YZIRCZ7RHHHZ1LKZTLQZBLMZVL6ROLMZVL6RBL3LWLMZRHMZAL 6RZHPRJZ0RTZXRULXRWLLZELQZAL8RTZFLALMZTL.jpg


Doing some research I would say yes it is a Widow variety. From what is stated here Genus Latrodectus - Widow Spiders - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/1999) you should agree. But it beware they are a spider to avoid.

[izzyscout21]

as someone who is morbidly afraid of spiders let me say this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zv8PuFr6eFM/Tsz0cZGtnJI/AAAAAAAAA1M/OxiH1cnqM1Y/s1600/kill_it_with_fire_demotivational_poster_1235695993 _RE_Mysterious_Creatures_Found_on_Earth-s580x419-232628.jpg

that freaks me right the fuck out.

I got a cold chill just clicking on this thread.

[DarkLight]

I can't remember the source but to paraphrase..."nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure".

[Sniper-T]

lol. you guys mock Canada all you will, but we don't have poisonous snakes, and we don't have them either.

[helomech]

Everything here stings, or bites. Scorpions, ants, cactus, copperheads, rattle snakes, water mocassins, and a bunch more.

[DarkLight]

...that weird old lady down the street...


Sorry, did I use my out loud voice again?

[Twitchy]

Everything here stings, or bites. Scorpions, ants, cactus, copperheads, rattle snakes, water mocassins, and a bunch more.

Sounds like florida...

btw, how did you kill your resident spider?

[helomech]

Sounds like florida...

btw, how did you kill your resident spider?

Boot

[Twitchy]

Boot

poor spider...

[Sniper-T]

Now it is going to rain!

[helomech]

We can use some rain.

[Sniper-T]

yeah... us too.

Here spider, spider spider...

[izzyscout21]

While we're on the spider subject..........


From Yahoo:
Black Widow Spiders May Have Met Their Match - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/black-widow-spiders-may-met-match-134626496.html)


Black widow spiders seem to be universally feared. But who's scared of a brown widow? The black widow should be quaking all eight of its boots, a new study suggests. In the United States, there's a new widow in town. The brown widow. And scientists say it may be taking over some native western black widow territory.
That may be good news in one sense: Brown widow spider bites are less toxic than those of black widows (http://www.livescience.com/15454-surviving-sex-black-widows.html), researchers say.
The brown widow spider first showed up in the United States (in Florida) in 1935. It was discovered in California in 2003. They've done well with their expansion efforts, it seems. Scientists searched various habitats in Southern California where they expected to find black widows (http://www.livescience.com/17616-spider-sexual-cannibalism-offspring.html), from urban areas and farms to undeveloped natural areas.
"The brown widows really burst on to the scene in a very short time, and we found brown widows in many habitats where we expected to find black widows," study researcher Richard Vetter of the University of California, Riverside, said in a statement. "There may be some competition where brown widows are displacing black widows because there is some habitat overlap. There are also places where only brown widows were able to make homes, but in other habitats the black widows still predominate."
At 72 sites, the researchers found 20 times as many brown widow spiders (http://www.livescience.com/topics/spiders/) as black widows. Here's the creepy part: They frequently found them under outdoor tables and chairs, and in tiny spaces in walls, fences and other objects. The good news: Neither spider was found in the living spaces of houses, the scientists said in a statement.
The findings are detailed in the July issue of the Journal of Medical Entomology.

[helomech]

I have only seen one brown widow in my life.

[Twitchy]

I do not discriminate 8 legged critters... they are all creepy and die at my boot...

[Sniper-T]

^
Stay away from the ocean then! If I see you stomping lobsters, I'll be severly pissed!

;)


Remember, lobsters are friends

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt140/Sniper-T/A-Lobster-girl1.jpg

MMMMmmmmmm, lobster.... *DROOL*

:)

[bacpacker]

That pics almost makes me want to be a lobster, at least for a little bit.

[Twitchy]

^
Stay away from the ocean then! If I see you stomping lobsters, I'll be severly pissed!

;)


Remember, lobsters are friends

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt140/Sniper-T/A-Lobster-girl1.jpg

MMMMmmmmmm, lobster.... *DROOL*

:)

Touche... Lobsters, crabs, etc. are clear of any stomping I may do. :)