Does anyone know anything about Black Widows

I think my husband found one a huge one on our door this morning.

I don't know if it is though. I has red on its underbelly, but it just doesn't look like an hourglass shape to me. More like two rectangles.

Also are they this far North? I am in North Idaho and I always thought it was too cold up here.

I like spiders but not venemous spiders hanging out on my door where my kids go in and out of all day.

I don't believe they are in your area. Im not 100% sure so becareful, but I have known them to be in the Southern California range, not Idaho.

We found this black widow in some grapes from Sobeys in Canada...
So they can sometimes do a little bit of travel but I dont know much about them really... Don't let it bite ya!


https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...lbatSobeys.jpg

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...dowSpider3.jpg

You can find them in the northern states even in wisconsin and up into maine.

I will have to get pics of her. She is pretty big. She is still alive though. I thought my husband was going to have a heart attack.

I just didn't think they'd be up this far.

Oh here is another good picture of it...
Just to help you see what they look like I guess...

http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...0/IMG_4823.JPG

I'm afraid of spiders AHHH!

Yeah see the hourglass on this girl is really hard to see. I had to pick her up with old feeding tongs to actually see the hourglass.

Hopefully she didn't lay any eggs :eek:

My husband is so freaked out. He was shuddering walking out the door. He is so terrified of spiders. I am not too worried about getting bit myself, due to what I have read. I am more worried about my dogs and my kids.

in the apartment that i used to live in i found one behind a pillow on the ottoman that my cat always slept on. a few days later i was moving things around on the porch and found and infestation. lesson: if you get boxes of 1500 crickets for your geckos every 2 weeks, don't empty them into the cricket tub on your porch because spiders love catching the escapees. :shudder:

Oh I didn't even think of that. I keep my crickets inside in a closet with all my extra supplies. Now I don't want to go up there and get them out.

I have so many spiders in this house. At least once a day I kill one spider. I don't mind the little house spiders that live in my plants, they kill off other bugs. We have huge Hobo spiders. After being bitten by one and having a gaping hole in my leg I despise those things, and we have wolf spiders. The hobo spiders are the worst though, they like to chase me across the kitchen floor.

I am going to go get some diatomashus (sp?) earth today and put it every where.

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Originally Posted by Kristy

Yeah see the hourglass on this girl is really hard to see. I had to pick her up with old feeding tongs to actually see the hourglass.

Hopefully she didn't lay any eggs :eek:

My husband is so freaked out. He was shuddering walking out the door. He is so terrified of spiders. I am not too worried about getting bit myself, due to what I have read. I am more worried about my dogs and my kids.

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Spiders usually stay with the egg sack once they lay it to protect it, which is odd cause when the young actually do hatch they eat a lot of the babies. So I wouldn't worry too much about eggs. I have only seen one black widow in person and never saw another, and just think, if she did mate, you have one less black widow to worry about cause the females eat the males after mating.... :8: