Quote Originally Posted by andwhy6 View Post
thats unusual that you found it in the corner of the garage. they usually stay in places that are very dark for a long period of time and have large unorganized webs. pretty cool tho! i would have prob kept it... i would rather have a dangerous pet than a dangerous insect roaming around out by the barn. its all good tho
I know they usually do that. The ones around here usually make their nest in broken fence posts or cracks in our fence walls and have the web outside of it which makes it hard to catch them since they sometimes get in the fence post before I can tear the web there. The garage I found her in is a new garage and no one ever really uses it, it is the only time I've ever seen a widows web so exposed, she did have her 2 egg sacks bunched up there though and she was curled up behind them which makes a little more sense, she was pretty covered before I started tearing the web. I have kept around 15 of them back when I still had my tarantulas. They were always nice to have around, I could take them out for pictures and they were relatively easy to get in and out of the cages and none of them tried to run off.

Just keeping that one widow instead of placing it back by our barn would do nothing to the widow population on our property, so it doesn't worry me at all.