Black widow spider in my yard

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Justin and I were outside doing yard work and I found a black widow spider.
Here are a few pictures that Justin took.

[dogs_4_me]

EW! I hate spiders, i remember one time we went camping and found one in our tent

[Kfamr]

Oh gosh! I hope we don't see any like that on our side of the state!!

[ramanth]

I would of been far far away! eeks!

[CathyBogart]

What a lovely little lady! Thanks for the pics!

[DJFyrewolf36]

Originally posted by WolfChan
What a lovely little lady! Thanks for the pics!

I also think she is quite pretty. I am glad she is outside though! She looks big!!

[Tonya]

Yucky! Is that a telephone pole he's on? I don't know what it is about spiders and phone stuff, but it seems like I'm always finding them when I am working.

[sammy101]

Originally posted by WolfChan
What a lovely little lady! Thanks for the pics!

yes i agree!! but i wish they werent so poisonous ,its not ver good to get bit by one of those,ugk but i still wouldnt want her in my house,lol

[Pam]

Oh My Gosh! I love to work in the yard but that would have done me in. Doubt that I could ever plant anything after seeing one of them up close or cut the grass or anything. I would wind up living in a jungle of a mess!

Tonya I feel for you. I would probably fall off the pole if I ran into one of them.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Originally posted by Tonya
Yucky! Is that a telephone pole he's on? I don't know what it is about spiders and phone stuff, but it seems like I'm always finding them when I am working.

yep he's on a telephone pole. I was mowing the yard and looked down and there he was. He was absolutely amazing, we moved him out of the yard into the woods across the road.

Originally posted by sammy101
yes i agree!! but i wish they werent so poisonous ,its not ver good to get bit by one of those,ugk but i still wouldnt want her in my house,lol

They are very poisonous, but it won't kill you or anything, you'll just be sick for a few days. Unlike the diamond back rattlesnake we saw a couple years ago in the road in front of our house. Actually Justin said he thinks the spider was a male, and the males are not poisonous.

[Tonya]

Originally posted by KBlaix
They are very poisonous, but it won't kill you or anything, you'll just be sick for a few days. Unlike the diamond back rattlesnake we saw a couple years ago in the road in front of our house. Actually Justin said he thinks the spider was a male, and the males are not poisonous.

Yes, they aren't as deadly as people think...unless you are old or unhealthy. We've all (my co-workers and I) been bitten at some point. Generally it just gets big, swollen, and itchy. Sometimes it turns blackish like a bad bruise. I didn't get sick, but some of the guys also got sick.

[Samantha Puppy]

:SQUASH:

[CathyBogart]

Egads, it's definitely NOT a male!! Males look like this:



They're not terribly venomous unless you are immune-deficient in some way. my boss was bitten by one a few weeks ago, and while he still has a swollen sopt on his cheek he says it only hurt the first night.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

oh, thanks WolfChan. The one we found had brown bans on its legs (hard to see in the picture), that's all we knew about the difference between male and female. I didn't realize they were so different.

[manda_moo87]

Ahhhh...!!!