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I opened my basement window to let some fresh spring air into the house and found this bad girl on the sill just outside. Scared the hell out of me! I’d never seen a Black Widow before and decided to (cautiously) get a couple of shots with my macro lens before dispatching her. There’s nothing else in the frame to give it scale, but her abdomen was a good half-inch in diameter.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Arachnid
Size 1280 x 855px
File Size 582 kB
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For all the yearnings I've had to live abroad, one of the lasting reasons I prefer staying put in the UK is that we don't get nasty little buggers like this! It's chilling to think even one of those eyes could have been looking at you and thinking "yum".
Also, I love the tags in this post! "squashed", "tripled-flushed", "dead". It has ceased to be, expired, and gone to meet its maker. This is an ex-spider! ;-p
Also, I love the tags in this post! "squashed", "tripled-flushed", "dead". It has ceased to be, expired, and gone to meet its maker. This is an ex-spider! ;-p
Arachnophobia is one of my reasonable fears. I kill one of these witches at least once a year in the basement (unlike some people I actually use my basement for laundry, storage and work areas). Mine are never more than 1/4 inch in the abdomen, which seems to be the norm. Don't want to mess with bigger than that!
I'm afraid it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider It's unfortunately gotten out of Australia to New Zealand, Japan and the UAE. Isolated colonies of them, but still.
Wow! I’ve never heard of anybody keeping them for a pet. Misunderstood? Perhaps. But they can do real damage if they bite, so I prefer not having them in my house.
It sounds as if you were rather attached to yours. Good for you! And I’m sincerely sorry for your loss.
It sounds as if you were rather attached to yours. Good for you! And I’m sincerely sorry for your loss.
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