Julie,
Fortunately, Black Widows are very rare in my area. In fact, I've never found
one myself�and I've looked. I realize spiders of size compete for crickets,
but since we were talking about ants and gnats, I assumed the predator would
match the prey. I wondered about spider predation on geckos; again, I assumed
the size of the spiders chosen would not be a threat to the geckos; rather,
the other way around.
Spider hatchlings have a way of getting into almost all my cages and even the
rearing bins I use for mealworms. Strangely enough, I have only found spiders
a few times in with my crickets. I assumed the spiders were in the shipment
from the cricket breeder. But certainly your words of caution bear heeding.
John
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