So my sister has always been into Tarantula's and well me when I was a kid (about 3-7yrs of age) I use to catch random spider's. I didn't know back then that spider's will eat other spider's. So when they were all placed in a 1 gallon ice cream bucket you could just imagine what happened.
I now know better and have kept some spider's short term for observation then released them like the Daring Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax). Well I never wanted to mess with some of the more scarey or dangerous spider's. One which is red another being black and velvety or one that is like solid white. This also included the common black widow.
One day I was outside messing with my plants and I saw a widow but noticed it wasn't solid black. Infact it wasn't black at all but brownish. So I looked online for brown widow's. I remember thinking it's probably just a rare color mutation of the black widow. Well I learned that it's actually a different species of widow. It's common name actually being a brown widow (Latrodectus geometricus).
One thing I noticed though was that they were in large numbers in my garden. I never found any black widows (Latrodectus hesperus). Well it seems the new widow species which in debate whether it originates from africa or south america has out done the black widow for food and space. BrW's can be found living in close proximity to each other in relative peace. BlkW's on the other hand live solitary and won't tolerate another BlkW living close by.
Well one day I went to go wash my clothes for work and when I looked on the washing room door I found a nice sized BlkW just chillin'. So I went inside and got a mason jar and went back to the door and caught her. She now lives in a 1 gallon plastic container which we sell at my job (Walmart) for like 4-5 bucks. Well I decided to go ahead and get myself a BrW as well. First one I found was really small so I was like cool I could watch it grow. Well when I took a closer look it turned out to be a male. So I got rid of that one and found a female on an empty pot which was small to medium in size. It also lives in a 1 gallon container.
They are being fed a diet of flies (the one that come inside the house become lunch) and crickets. I'm tempted on trying to feed them some june bugs. We also got crane flies which would be neat to see them catch. Well here are 3 pictures I took of them. Two are of the BrW and one is of the BlkW husk. She shed her exskelleton. She has been hidding in a ball so haven't been able to get good pictures of her yet.
Brown Widow - Latrodectus geometricus
Black Widow Husk - Latrodectus hesperus
Container there in. I'll take an actuall photo of there inclosure tomorrow. If I remember.
I now know better and have kept some spider's short term for observation then released them like the Daring Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax). Well I never wanted to mess with some of the more scarey or dangerous spider's. One which is red another being black and velvety or one that is like solid white. This also included the common black widow.
One day I was outside messing with my plants and I saw a widow but noticed it wasn't solid black. Infact it wasn't black at all but brownish. So I looked online for brown widow's. I remember thinking it's probably just a rare color mutation of the black widow. Well I learned that it's actually a different species of widow. It's common name actually being a brown widow (Latrodectus geometricus).
One thing I noticed though was that they were in large numbers in my garden. I never found any black widows (Latrodectus hesperus). Well it seems the new widow species which in debate whether it originates from africa or south america has out done the black widow for food and space. BrW's can be found living in close proximity to each other in relative peace. BlkW's on the other hand live solitary and won't tolerate another BlkW living close by.
Well one day I went to go wash my clothes for work and when I looked on the washing room door I found a nice sized BlkW just chillin'. So I went inside and got a mason jar and went back to the door and caught her. She now lives in a 1 gallon plastic container which we sell at my job (Walmart) for like 4-5 bucks. Well I decided to go ahead and get myself a BrW as well. First one I found was really small so I was like cool I could watch it grow. Well when I took a closer look it turned out to be a male. So I got rid of that one and found a female on an empty pot which was small to medium in size. It also lives in a 1 gallon container.
They are being fed a diet of flies (the one that come inside the house become lunch) and crickets. I'm tempted on trying to feed them some june bugs. We also got crane flies which would be neat to see them catch. Well here are 3 pictures I took of them. Two are of the BrW and one is of the BlkW husk. She shed her exskelleton. She has been hidding in a ball so haven't been able to get good pictures of her yet.
Brown Widow - Latrodectus geometricus
Black Widow Husk - Latrodectus hesperus
Container there in. I'll take an actuall photo of there inclosure tomorrow. If I remember.
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