the widow killer.....

[midnight]

I'll take a little snow over spiders anyday.

brrrr,i like the rainforest

But you'll know for sure if they're black widows

ive seen one.
when i was young i gave my mom a rose and she set it on the table "after smelling it" and a black widow crawled out.

love ya mom

I use to get 7" huntsman spiders in my old house

my walls would have been full of bullet holes

Catch a couple females (blacks only) and send them to me

if thats to me,im sure thats illegal lol

 

[crashinc25]

Come out to the IE......... Home of the widows. I have them everywhere. Backyard, garage, anywhere that wood stays cool. They don't like plastic but love wood. I have a wood table and chairs; guaranteed to find at least 1 a week on it. Garage gets bombed probably every 2 months. Sucks and they get big quick. Like dime size easily.

 

[toehead11183]

i used to read water meters for the city and every other meter obx had them. i collected them in a jar and i had it full before lunch. and they called me crazy!

 

[guppy]

As an aside, I have "milked" a few black widows, it is an interesting project that you use a pair of probes and a nine volt battery to accomplish. The venom is quite valuble if you can find a buyer but I just made up a small vial for a collection I used to keep.

 

[Caveman]

As an aside, I have "milked" a few black widows, it is an interesting project that you use a pair of probes and a nine volt battery to accomplish. The venom is quite valuble if you can find a buyer but I just made up a small vial for a collection I used to keep.

What is the venom used for?

 

[DeLgAdO]

What is the venom used for?

antivenom?

 

[guppy]

Mine was just for my collection but it is used for medical research and anti-venom production.
There are 5 species of widows in the USA, they are all in the genus Latrodectus, the ones I milked were L. mactans.
They are all actually fairly vairible in color, often having spots of red or yellow on the backside. They (in most cases) can range from black, brown, to reddish brown in body color, but two are different, the red widow (L. bishopi) of Florida is almost alway a deep red, and the widespread brown widow (L. geometricus) is anywhere from a grayish white to glossy black. The one shown in this thread are brown widows which have a very distinctive, nubbly egg sack.
Here is a good link http://bugguide.net/node/view/1999

 

[---XR---]

good christ, i would shizz myself so fast i would passout, i am also deathly afraid of these things, and i'm not easy to scare

 

[Caveman]

good christ, i would shizz myself so fast i would passout, i am also deathly afraid of these things, and i'm not easy to scare

Im the same way. Couple days ago I saw a big spider on the wall of my bedroom and I had to go to the living room to sleep.

 

[Nic]

I find brown recluse and black widows all the time @ work and walking through the pine barrens in NJ