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Southern Black Widow spider.
A beauty of a lady if you ask me. :)
Look, but do not touch. I do not recommend people take macro photos of this species of spider as it is one of the few in the United States that are medically significant. She was very sluggish and I took great care with handling her.
Not many spiders of medical concern where I live. Two species of Black Widow and that's about it. The Brown Widows aren't really dangerous and the Brown Recluse doesn't really live here.
These ladies are rather timid and are more prone to play dead than bite. If you leave them be, they will do the same for you.
Southern Black Widow spider.
A beauty of a lady if you ask me. :)
Look, but do not touch. I do not recommend people take macro photos of this species of spider as it is one of the few in the United States that are medically significant. She was very sluggish and I took great care with handling her.
Not many spiders of medical concern where I live. Two species of Black Widow and that's about it. The Brown Widows aren't really dangerous and the Brown Recluse doesn't really live here.
These ladies are rather timid and are more prone to play dead than bite. If you leave them be, they will do the same for you.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1000 x 667px
File Size 498.3 kB
I'm not sure what this compulsion to get up close to things that are scary is, but I do the same exact thing. I guess it's a way of confronting our fears rather than hiding from them, or whatnot.
Anyhow, it's a downright lovely shot... that silvery sheen on the abdomen is kind of unusual, but striking.
Anyhow, it's a downright lovely shot... that silvery sheen on the abdomen is kind of unusual, but striking.
Absolutely beautiful.... When I first saw the submission, I hadn't read your text, yet and my brain went "Wow! Izzat a Black Widow?! Dang..." She is certainly pretty... My Mate found one in his apartment some time back and actually managed to capture her and take a few photos. He was pretty wigged that she was in his house... He's in California, so I'm not sure which species is common there.
Until I went nosing around a site called "What's That Bug?" I had no idea that widows had more than one colouration, let alone species varients. I was only familiar with the iconic black spider with the red hour-glass. Lucky shot, indeed! My Mate later released the spider back into the wild, which I thought was pretty cool.
Beautiful picture!
Beautiful picture!
you like me i was affraid s**tless of spiders so now im kinda getting near some and trying not to be affraid as well even my BF who has SEVERE aracnaphobia is kinda getting to know them...they are mean... but only if you make them. I love males and females. more females of this particular breed of spider but a very nice picture nontheless -loves-
Wow, a very beautiful spider. Very nice photo!
Little known fact, with I believe the southern black widow, the venom is only dangerous to people if they are genetically allergic to it. The bites only give my family a small red mark that lasts maybe a couple hours then goes away :P
Little known fact, with I believe the southern black widow, the venom is only dangerous to people if they are genetically allergic to it. The bites only give my family a small red mark that lasts maybe a couple hours then goes away :P
Well, I can propose one of two explanations.
A: You aren't being bitten by widows.
B: Your family is somehow resistant to one or more of the spider's neurotoxic compounds.
The bite reactions aren't caused by anaphylaxis, so it isn't that people have an allergic reaction. In fact, spider allergies appear to be rare from the research I've found.
A: You aren't being bitten by widows.
B: Your family is somehow resistant to one or more of the spider's neurotoxic compounds.
The bite reactions aren't caused by anaphylaxis, so it isn't that people have an allergic reaction. In fact, spider allergies appear to be rare from the research I've found.
Hmm, interesting! I guess until I can do further research on it, I'll drop that fact to the "Wive's Tales" category :P
As for option A, unless there is another type of black spider as the one pictured above with the bright red hourglass on the abdomen in the southern California desert, they were widows ^..^'
As for option A, unless there is another type of black spider as the one pictured above with the bright red hourglass on the abdomen in the southern California desert, they were widows ^..^'
This is the only spider I will kill. When I was a little woozle I kept them in jars and fed them bugs, but at some point they began to irrationally terrify me. They are just so creepy looking with their shiny black body and black legs. Ugh. I won't even kill a brown recluse, but I kill these and they are extremely common here in the desert.
Lancaster, California. There are literally millions of black widows here. You can't kill them fast enough to keep new webs from springing up literally overnight. I leave the outside ones alone and only menace the ones that are in equipment cabinets (and there is one in EVERY equipment cabinet) or those that get into my garage.
Ah. You're either seeing the Southern Black Widow or Western Black Widow. Not that there's much difference.
I don't mind them either way. There aren't any spiders that cause irrational reactions any more (although EVERY spider used to.)
You're out of range from the Brown Recluse, but you might be seeing a similar species, the Desert Recluse.
Really they're hard to tell apart without examining their sex organs with a microscope.
I don't mind them either way. There aren't any spiders that cause irrational reactions any more (although EVERY spider used to.)
You're out of range from the Brown Recluse, but you might be seeing a similar species, the Desert Recluse.
Really they're hard to tell apart without examining their sex organs with a microscope.
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