On 2015-03-25 21:01 , Mark C wrote:
Black widows are probably much more common where you live than up here in the frozen north (we still have patches of snow on the ground and temps in the 20's F at night) - but once I got to recognize these spiders and their dens I came to realize that they are far more common here than I ever thought - mostly during the summer.
sometimes i find them in the yard during summer, but i see them most often in the fall, when they come in seeking warmer quarters
i was bitten by one in September 1984, i can still feel a sore spot on my shoulder sometimes; i am not especially afraid of them, though i do kill them when i find them indoors because i worry our cats will play with them (i don't kill spiders in general); i am much more afraid of the brown recluse, though i haven't seen one yet; a friend's mother had a terrible festering sore for months after a brown recluse bite
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