My black widow will repeatedly and aggressively bite the prey and as she walks away she sprays webbing onto it until it's dead. Never saw a widow do this before but it's amazing to watch.
I have been looking into getting a jumping spider for so long but today I found a black widow inside one of my son’s toys in the yard. I luckily had an enclosure I was going to use for a scorpion but I used it for the black widow I caught and she seems pretty happy in there already. Thanks for all the tips and I love that I’m not the only one who wants to keep them lol!
I worked at a pallet company repairing old used weather beaten pallets and have found widows in the corner of a pallet with its web and would take the pallet deep into the pallet yard and hide it on everyone so the widow wouldn't be harmed, I love all spiders
Update: I caught her and incubated the egg sacs! I now have 7 tiny slings growing in their own temporary enclosures and a beautiful and healthy mama who continues to lay the occasional egg sac lol so happy to have a pet widow!!!! Thank you for the info! Theres a beautiful black widow living in my backyard. I actually spotted a male approaching her on her web, and within a few days she had 2 egg sacs!! I really wanna catch her and her egg sacs and keep her. You said there’s a shortage of captive slings so I’d love to contribute to more black widow pets!
I literally just caught a black widow who has basically been my room mate since I moved in; recently she came out of her cozy home under my stairs to make her way to a wall in my room (my room is in the basement) due to rain because unfortunately the rain has flooded her home under my stairs. At first I was just going to allow her to find her own new home but my cat Doom noticed her pretty quickly and kept trying to catch and eat her. So I decided to help her out a bit to find a new cozy corner. In that process I decided to just catch her and make her a cozy home. She is now in a fairly large jar with pink rocks, a semi large plastic skull and a large cinnamon stick I baked (just to be safe) so she had a way to build her web. At first she hid but she finally came out and to say she is beautiful is an understatement. I had no clue how big she really was until she started creating her web in the home I made for her. SHE IS MASSIVE and I am here for it. This video helped me decide that I'd catch her rather than ignore her or risk her dying by placing her outside. Her name is Lilith and now resides in her jar on my bedside table.
I don't know if you still read or respond to comments on an older video, but I came across a male black widow tonight and stumbled across this video when looking up information. My parents get a lot of widows around their home and my dad actually dispatches of them. It always makes me a bit sad because I think the black widow gets a bad rap, but I also understand the danger of them existing in such numbers in and near residences. I have wanted to discover a humane alternative to having to cull their numbers, though my parents are a bit less concerned with said spooder populations. I think they are amazing creatures, especially this male that ended up hitching a ride inside and finding a perch upon our lamp. He is absolutely stunning. Thank you for the video and many eight-legged blessings.
Quick tip for anyone wanting to raise an eggsac, coming from my own experience raising a sac. Babies and actually very reluctant to cannibalize each other. In order to feed them I just threw a prekilled cricket in and it seemed to work. Water the little guys VERY frequently too.
I have two babies in separate deli cups. Do u spritz water in their enclosure or squeeze a little bit on the substrate? I'm worried I'll drown them if I spritz them with water lol
If you're not careful or too careful I'm not sure, you'll have a mealworm farm and unlimited mealworms. I have that. Every 2 months I put chicken layer pellets (with out antibiotics) at the bottom of a 5 quarts bin with papertowel rolls and using a seive I remove most of the biggest mealworms and beatles. The old one I just leave and once I'm sure all the baby mealworms are removed, they like carrots and will burrow into them, I mix the spent mealworm food with soil for my house plants and starter garden plants.
I just bred a pair of Red Widow spiders, latrodectus bishopi. I guess they are kind of rare. Of you want some when they hatch let me know. Your channel is really good! Thanks for sharing content.
They are definitely beautiful spiders! They are plentiful around my yard, not sure I want to keep one. With my luck I would find a gravid one and the babies would escape and populate my house ☺️☺️ Great care video! 🕷️❤️
luckily if you do keep a black widow and it happens to lay eggs, you can always remove the egg sac (they make extra long tweezers that will do the job nicely if you dont want to try poking at it with a stick or get your hand near the spider) and dispose of it. sources vary widely but they say the eggs take between 1 and 4 weeks to hatch so you'll have time to remove them.
I'm gonna keep my eye open for one now. Caught a jumper spider and a wolf spider keeping them is Kool. So thank you for informing us, love your videos keep up the hard work.
I feed my two spiders. Wild caught house caught bugs including flies, pantry, moths, etc. We don't use any sprays in our yard and our animals have been kept for years and never gotten sick
I really appreciate this because I'm brand new to my black widow and now I know I need to get more stuff to clutter up her little container. I got her the smaller sized. She's still not very big but I guess I need to get a bigger one
Yes, I love how passionate you are about them! I love my black widow, her name is Spicy and I think she's super interesting! I got her a few months ago at a reptile expo and to my surprise she laid an egg sac! I took it out placed it in a container and froze it for 2 days (they are not native where I live). Then I kept it on my desk I figured I could use it in the art I make with Spicy when she passes. However a couple weeks ago I noticed black dots around the sac and to my surprise the egg had hatched!! I froze it for 2 days, and it was nearly 50 days after it was laid when it hatched!!! Thankfully I have friend who took it to experiment and play around with raising them.
Since you've found the spider in the wild they must be native to your area. I do have a concern about people raising black widows and having the same experience.You did and introducing them to an area that otherwise has never had black little spiders. What are your thoughts..
This was so great and helpful thank you so much I have been catching black widows in my home for a local collector and only one died waiting for pickup but it was one too many I have reptile pets so I'll be able to use some of what I have to make sure that the spiders are happy while they wait to go to their forever home ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I very recently rescued a black widow my coworker was going to kill. I decided to try and keep her. This video answered so many of my questions! Thank you!!
I was not aware there was a shortage of Captive bred Black widows. I see them all the time, but I have not considered them. My wife has the fear of snakes and spiders and I have the fear of clowns. I told her I'll take care of the spiders and snakes you can care for the clowns.
I caught a female black widow and want to keep it as long as I can, I love spiders but I am deathly afraid of them so being close to one like this is helping me get over that fear. I planned on getting a tarantula but found this wild beauty instead, every question I had was covered in this video and I thank you and will look into the enclosures that you have mentioned, love the video and will definitely be watching more! I fear she is carrying babies bc she’s absolutely enormous, so I’ll definitely be removing the egg sack once she lays it, but I won’t be disposing of it I’ll simply place it somewhere where they should have a fighting chance to get to live.
One of my new wild caught females from this summer layed an egg sac and it will be my first time trying to raise the babies I do think if it goes well that I am going to try and sell them. I’m a farmer and found so many under the water melons this summer! My first female that I ever caught and still have her name is binx I haven’t halved the momma yet but I’m also dying to get a red widow and I want to name her jinx!! How cute binx the black widow and jinx the red widow! Hopefully I’ll think of a name for momma soon.
What are the health department laws around keeping black widows? My bus driver keeps a Black Widow and she had a gravity one, and the baby's got out.She says she's got webs around her house. It seems to me like this practice.As a potential for introducing the species , not formerly native to a locality. And in this case, carrying a Black Widow spider on her clothing into her workplace, which happens to been driving.Senior citizens And others around in a small bus all day. She was just as excited and pleased with her hobby as you are. But Can you tell me what various laws might be?And what's your responsibilities are?As a pet owner?
Need HELP 😆 the Widow I just contained laid a sac last night. I’ve raised 6 tarantulas from slings, but I’ve never had a spider species before! I did feed her a large cricket after letting her vibe in her enclosure over night & she ate so I was really happy about that! ANY advice on how to handle or what to do with these babies will be greatly appreciated! I am just trying to help them survive! I did post a similar post to Tarantula Kat! I have been watching her channel for quite some time, but stumbled upon yours doing Widow research! Thank you for all the info!
I found a mother at work and she laid eggs but the bad thing is that she disappeared but the sack still remains, I check everyday to see if she returns but she don’t. I really want to get the sack to care for them and buy the big shelter you showed, but I don’t know what to feed the babies or if they will escape through the holes :(
I have a question. I found a HUGE black widow in the corner of my room (which I smooshed) because of kids. Here is my question..one night around dusk, she decided to leave...I am wondering if they stay wirh their eggs..or if she wasnt pregnant..she was starving and went on her way(Im worried about eggs) what are the chances she left eggs? As she was alone in here, with no male? How long will they carry the eggs before they make the sack? Please give me your opinion. Thanks!! The hole she was in is not accessible for me to check.
I have a few black widows in my house. I’ve been thinking about keeping one or two as a pet and maybe trying to relocate the others since I have a cat and a dog. I honestly doubt they’d get bitten since the widows seem to like to stay up on my ceiling but black widows venom is fatal to cats so it makes me a little nervous. 😭
Hey. I need help!!! I have a black widow who apparently trusts me just a little too much I am in an apartment. I discovered her one evening on my kitchen floor. I initially tried to kill her but she made it impossible. Over the following months, she peeks out and hangs out in her web. Like shes comfortable around me. I don't know what to do. I tell her that nature outside is best but she doesn't seem to want to go anywhere. Her web is in a corner and she hides out of any possible reach under the cabinet. I wish I knew what to do. Catching her isn't easy because she climbs out of reach. And shes fast. I don't want to hurt her but I need to figure something out. Most ppl would say kill her but two different people have tried to catch her put her back in nature and failed.
How do I handle my juvenile pink toe tarantula with out running away loosing it I have a pink toe tarantula that I really want to hold but still afraid to loose it hi my name is Sylvia love yours channel 😁😁😁🤣
I love black widows but you don’t wanna stick your hands anywhere you can’t see that has the conditions they need around where I live😂 I’m a landscaper and I can’t imagine how many times I’ve brushed them sticking my hands where I shouldnt but I ran into a infestation of them in a ditch. we had to remove excess rocks that the city had over filled😂 are 87 year old neighbors was picking up rocks with them on it and smashing them throwing black widows around and none of them came out and tried to bite. I grew up thinking they would jump on you but I think that’s just a good thing to tell kids😂 literally 100s which is crazy because the ditch completely floods but yah they were crawling EVERYWHERE it was freaky but got me past the fear of being bitten. They’re pretty chilled out honestly. Now I’m just paranoid about copperheads because I raked a nice one onto my foot the other day( landscaper of 14 years very familiar with wildlife)and it took off instead of biting me then a week later almost ran over a timber rattler mountain biking 😂
This question is for anyone. Can I keep two brown widows in the same enclosure? I have two brown widows in separate micro habitats but I’d like to catch this black widow in my yard before my roommate sprays him. I want to know if it’s cool to move the browns in together so I have somewhere to keep the black widow.
I want to keep a black widow so bad, but my husband draws the line at the ones that scare him 😂 I talked him into a wolf spider, so maybe I can still change his mind lol
Black widows wants to stay in their web/nest aswell as they wait for their pray to come to them, so even with an open lid - they wouldn't even want to leave unless very threatened. They are great pet spiders! (besides the fact that they are very venomous and you should handle with great care 😅).
Answer to my own question after keeping a black widow and feeding it a variety of things: yes, black widows will gladly eat mealworms in worm, pupa or beetle form
I got interested in Black Widow Spiders when I was 5 years old and I mistook it for a black Halloween spider ring. I almost picked it up and but she flashed her hourglass at me and ran underneath our shed....at that point I was hooked. I've handled hundreds of male Black Widow's with venom just as deadly but the fangs are not big enough to penetrate human skin, besides females get quite cantankerous when disturbed and males will roam lookingforfemales. For Elders, children and those severely allergic a bite could make for a bad day....but I've been bit when I was working on my vehicle's brakes a number of years ago w/no reaction (not too fair but I'm immune to several Nuerotoxins) and for healthy adults a lot of pain comes from a bite. Black Widow venom is designed to take down very large prey as is the silk. The average spider web is 10× stronger than steel ...but the Black Widow's web is 10× stronger than the average spider's silk (making Black Widow silk 100× stronger than steel). In point of fact, the US Military made a shirt of Black Widow Silk that stopped 7.62×51mm/.308win Machine Gun rounds from penetrating the shirt. That fact prompted science to genetically modify Goats to produce spider silk in the milk, more efficient than harvesting silk from a spider. You've made a wonderful video and enjoy your spiders.
Just found one in my front porch.. had been wanting one for a couple months and kept finding false windows but to my surprise this girl was in the open.. I don’t think she’s a full adult and I hope not because I definitely don’t want babies 😄🖤
I keep them as well and had two egg sacs hatch. One today actually. Raising the babies is difficult though most of them just end up dying even if you separate them like I did.
Wolf spiders and brown recluse are the most ugly spiders and some other house spiders jumping spiders aren’t though and black widow females are the coolest but best to leave them be if you see a web outside thy could have babies and can be agressive
Do you have any recommendations on household items to use? I just caught a black widow in my school locker room since the staff would kill her. My parents are very against keeping spiders in the house so I’d like to keep her as secret as possible by not asking my parents to buy supplies.
My black widow will repeatedly and aggressively bite the prey and as she walks away she sprays webbing onto it until it's dead. Never saw a widow do this before but it's amazing to watch.
I have been looking into getting a jumping spider for so long but today I found a black widow inside one of my son’s toys in the yard. I luckily had an enclosure I was going to use for a scorpion but I used it for the black widow I caught and she seems pretty happy in there already. Thanks for all the tips and I love that I’m not the only one who wants to keep them lol!
My daughter was telling me about a friend who has a pet jumping spider that interacts with her very nicely.
I found a false widow in my kitchen that I kept as a pet, and she produced a sack so we will see. I now want a black widow, they are so beautiful!
Do itttt!
i have quite a few false widows
@@perfecttalkz4259aren't they beautiful? I have three and their colouration varies so much and is so do beautiful
Love my false widows. I currently have an adult female Steatoda Nobilis and I’m getting some Steatoda Paykulliana spiderlings soon.
What’s the difference between a true and false widow?
I worked at a pallet company repairing old used weather beaten pallets and have found widows in the corner of a pallet with its web and would take the pallet deep into the pallet yard and hide it on everyone so the widow wouldn't be harmed, I love all spiders
You're a good dude for that. Thank u
Update: I caught her and incubated the egg sacs! I now have 7 tiny slings growing in their own temporary enclosures and a beautiful and healthy mama who continues to lay the occasional egg sac lol so happy to have a pet widow!!!!
Thank you for the info! Theres a beautiful black widow living in my backyard. I actually spotted a male approaching her on her web, and within a few days she had 2 egg sacs!! I really wanna catch her and her egg sacs and keep her. You said there’s a shortage of captive slings so I’d love to contribute to more black widow pets!
I literally just caught a black widow who has basically been my room mate since I moved in; recently she came out of her cozy home under my stairs to make her way to a wall in my room (my room is in the basement) due to rain because unfortunately the rain has flooded her home under my stairs. At first I was just going to allow her to find her own new home but my cat Doom noticed her pretty quickly and kept trying to catch and eat her. So I decided to help her out a bit to find a new cozy corner. In that process I decided to just catch her and make her a cozy home. She is now in a fairly large jar with pink rocks, a semi large plastic skull and a large cinnamon stick I baked (just to be safe) so she had a way to build her web. At first she hid but she finally came out and to say she is beautiful is an understatement. I had no clue how big she really was until she started creating her web in the home I made for her. SHE IS MASSIVE and I am here for it. This video helped me decide that I'd catch her rather than ignore her or risk her dying by placing her outside. Her name is Lilith and now resides in her jar on my bedside table.
I don't know if you still read or respond to comments on an older video, but I came across a male black widow tonight and stumbled across this video when looking up information. My parents get a lot of widows around their home and my dad actually dispatches of them. It always makes me a bit sad because I think the black widow gets a bad rap, but I also understand the danger of them existing in such numbers in and near residences. I have wanted to discover a humane alternative to having to cull their numbers, though my parents are a bit less concerned with said spooder populations. I think they are amazing creatures, especially this male that ended up hitching a ride inside and finding a perch upon our lamp. He is absolutely stunning. Thank you for the video and many eight-legged blessings.
Another great video, friend. I can tell that you are very passionate about your widow babies, and I love your enclosures. You are as adorable as ever!
Great care video for beautiful spiders. Love your content 🖤
Quick tip for anyone wanting to raise an eggsac, coming from my own experience raising a sac. Babies and actually very reluctant to cannibalize each other.
In order to feed them I just threw a prekilled cricket in and it seemed to work. Water the little guys VERY frequently too.
I have two babies in separate deli cups. Do u spritz water in their enclosure or squeeze a little bit on the substrate? I'm worried I'll drown them if I spritz them with water lol
Omg the ending LOL "Don't cuddle black widows!!"
Very informative video
I’m so happy you enjoyed my information! I feel like I talked a lot but I had a lot to say haha
@@SlightlyVenomous omg nooo!!! I love listening to different facts and information! Keep it going!
Love you and your content, I have followed you for a while, but this is the first time I have commented. Love from North Shields, England.
Thank you so much for your support! I really appreciate it!
Great video! Thank you for the info!
If you're not careful or too careful I'm not sure, you'll have a mealworm farm and unlimited mealworms. I have that. Every 2 months I put chicken layer pellets (with out antibiotics) at the bottom of a 5 quarts bin with papertowel rolls and using a seive I remove most of the biggest mealworms and beatles. The old one I just leave and once I'm sure all the baby mealworms are removed, they like carrots and will burrow into them, I mix the spent mealworm food with soil for my house plants and starter garden plants.
I just bred a pair of Red Widow spiders, latrodectus bishopi. I guess they are kind of rare. Of you want some when they hatch let me know. Your channel is really good! Thanks for sharing content.
That’s amazing! I would be super interested in slings! Do you have Instagram?
They are definitely beautiful spiders! They are plentiful around my yard, not sure I want to keep one. With my luck I would find a gravid one and the babies would escape and populate my house ☺️☺️
Great care video! 🕷️❤️
luckily if you do keep a black widow and it happens to lay eggs, you can always remove the egg sac (they make extra long tweezers that will do the job nicely if you dont want to try poking at it with a stick or get your hand near the spider) and dispose of it. sources vary widely but they say the eggs take between 1 and 4 weeks to hatch so you'll have time to remove them.
I love these spiders. Thanks for the video!
I'm gonna keep my eye open for one now. Caught a jumper spider and a wolf spider keeping them is Kool. So thank you for informing us, love your videos keep up the hard work.
I’m so happy you enjoyed and that you’re loving spiders!
I feed my two spiders. Wild caught house caught bugs including flies, pantry, moths, etc. We don't use any sprays in our yard and our animals have been kept for years and never gotten sick
I really appreciate this because I'm brand new to my black widow and now I know I need to get more stuff to clutter up her little container. I got her the smaller sized. She's still not very big but I guess I need to get a bigger one
Yes, I love how passionate you are about them! I love my black widow, her name is Spicy and I think she's super interesting! I got her a few months ago at a reptile expo and to my surprise she laid an egg sac! I took it out placed it in a container and froze it for 2 days (they are not native where I live). Then I kept it on my desk I figured I could use it in the art I make with Spicy when she passes. However a couple weeks ago I noticed black dots around the sac and to my surprise the egg had hatched!! I froze it for 2 days, and it was nearly 50 days after it was laid when it hatched!!! Thankfully I have friend who took it to experiment and play around with raising them.
Since you've found the spider in the wild they must be native to your area. I do have a concern about people raising black widows and having the same experience.You did and introducing them to an area that otherwise has never had black little spiders. What are your thoughts..
This was so great and helpful thank you so much
I have been catching black widows in my home for a local collector and only one died waiting for pickup but it was one too many
I have reptile pets so I'll be able to use some of what I have to make sure that the spiders are happy while they wait to go to their forever home ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
great vid. always nice to see you.
Thank you friend!
I very recently rescued a black widow my coworker was going to kill. I decided to try and keep her. This video answered so many of my questions! Thank you!!
I was not aware there was a shortage of Captive bred Black widows. I see them all the time, but I have not considered them. My wife has the fear of snakes and spiders and I have the fear of clowns. I told her I'll take care of the spiders and snakes you can care for the clowns.
Clowns, are scary.
I have a black widow as a pet as well I love her so much
They are amazing critters!
@@SlightlyVenomous i know they are lovely
I caught a female black widow and want to keep it as long as I can, I love spiders but I am deathly afraid of them so being close to one like this is helping me get over that fear. I planned on getting a tarantula but found this wild beauty instead, every question I had was covered in this video and I thank you and will look into the enclosures that you have mentioned, love the video and will definitely be watching more! I fear she is carrying babies bc she’s absolutely enormous, so I’ll definitely be removing the egg sack once she lays it, but I won’t be disposing of it I’ll simply place it somewhere where they should have a fighting chance to get to live.
One of my new wild caught females from this summer layed an egg sac and it will be my first time trying to raise the babies I do think if it goes well that I am going to try and sell them. I’m a farmer and found so many under the water melons this summer! My first female that I ever caught and still have her name is binx I haven’t halved the momma yet but I’m also dying to get a red widow and I want to name her jinx!! How cute binx the black widow and jinx the red widow! Hopefully I’ll think of a name for momma soon.
I absolutely loved and enjoyed your video ❤
That treehouse is giving me Bella and Edward wedding realness.
Lol! I never realized that
What are the health department laws around keeping black widows? My bus driver keeps a Black Widow and she had a gravity one, and the baby's got out.She says she's got webs around her house. It seems to me like this practice.As a potential for introducing the species , not formerly native to a locality. And in this case, carrying a Black Widow spider on her clothing into her workplace, which happens to been driving.Senior citizens And others around in a small bus all day. She was just as excited and pleased with her hobby as you are.
But Can you tell me what various laws might be?And what's your responsibilities are?As a pet owner?
Great video,still doing research and deciding if I should keep one but it's looking like yes for me
I see you also have my favorite animal, a big fluffy kitty cat 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Need HELP 😆 the Widow I just contained laid a sac last night. I’ve raised 6 tarantulas from slings, but I’ve never had a spider species before! I did feed her a large cricket after letting her vibe in her enclosure over night & she ate so I was really happy about that!
ANY advice on how to handle or what to do with these babies will be greatly appreciated! I am just trying to help them survive!
I did post a similar post to Tarantula Kat! I have been watching her channel for quite some time, but stumbled upon yours doing Widow research!
Thank you for all the info!
Have you seen Tarantula Kats coffin shaped black widow cage, kind of different ⚰️⚰️
I found a mother at work and she laid eggs but the bad thing is that she disappeared but the sack still remains, I check everyday to see if she returns but she don’t. I really want to get the sack to care for them and buy the big shelter you showed, but I don’t know what to feed the babies or if they will escape through the holes :(
I have a question. I found a HUGE black widow in the corner of my room (which I smooshed) because of kids. Here is my question..one night around dusk, she decided to leave...I am wondering if they stay wirh their eggs..or if she wasnt pregnant..she was starving and went on her way(Im worried about eggs) what are the chances she left eggs? As she was alone in here, with no male? How long will they carry the eggs before they make the sack? Please give me your opinion. Thanks!!
The hole she was in is not accessible for me to check.
I'm getting a L.menavodi and L.elegans, enclosures ready, can't wait!😭
I have two grown captive Western black widows for sale right now. Now you said you were looking for captive bred
I have a few black widows in my house. I’ve been thinking about keeping one or two as a pet and maybe trying to relocate the others since I have a cat and a dog. I honestly doubt they’d get bitten since the widows seem to like to stay up on my ceiling but black widows venom is fatal to cats so it makes me a little nervous. 😭
Hey. I need help!!! I have a black widow who apparently trusts me just a little too much I am in an apartment. I discovered her one evening on my kitchen floor. I initially tried to kill her but she made it impossible. Over the following months, she peeks out and hangs out in her web. Like shes comfortable around me. I don't know what to do. I tell her that nature outside is best but she doesn't seem to want to go anywhere. Her web is in a corner and she hides out of any possible reach under the cabinet. I wish I knew what to do. Catching her isn't easy because she climbs out of reach. And shes fast. I don't want to hurt her but I need to figure something out. Most ppl would say kill her but two different people have tried to catch her put her back in nature and failed.
I'm a big zilla microhabitat fan
What environment is best to keep them in? Like in the shade, dark, sunny, or does it matter?
How do I handle my juvenile pink toe tarantula with out running away loosing it I have a pink toe tarantula that I really want to hold but still afraid to loose it hi my name is Sylvia love yours channel 😁😁😁🤣
I love black widows but you don’t wanna stick your hands anywhere you can’t see that has the conditions they need around where I live😂 I’m a landscaper and I can’t imagine how many times I’ve brushed them sticking my hands where I shouldnt but I ran into a infestation of them in a ditch. we had to remove excess rocks that the city had over filled😂 are 87 year old neighbors was picking up rocks with them on it and smashing them throwing black widows around and none of them came out and tried to bite. I grew up thinking they would jump on you but I think that’s just a good thing to tell kids😂 literally 100s which is crazy because the ditch completely floods but yah they were crawling EVERYWHERE it was freaky but got me past the fear of being bitten. They’re pretty chilled out honestly. Now I’m just paranoid about copperheads because I raked a nice one onto my foot the other day( landscaper of 14 years very familiar with wildlife)and it took off instead of biting me then a week later almost ran over a timber rattler mountain biking 😂
This question is for anyone. Can I keep two brown widows in the same enclosure? I have two brown widows in separate micro habitats but I’d like to catch this black widow in my yard before my roommate sprays him. I want to know if it’s cool to move the browns in together so I have somewhere to keep the black widow.
NEVERMIND about my questions. I will get a spray bottle today and spray the hole with vinegar. THANKS
I caught a blackwidow years ago and she laid 3 separate egg sacks a few months apart.
I want to keep a black widow so bad, but my husband draws the line at the ones that scare him 😂 I talked him into a wolf spider, so maybe I can still change his mind lol
tell him it will be kept very secure in its container and will never get out!
Black widows wants to stay in their web/nest aswell as they wait for their pray to come to them, so even with an open lid - they wouldn't even want to leave unless very threatened. They are great pet spiders! (besides the fact that they are very venomous and you should handle with great care 😅).
Awesome video!
Do black widows eat mealworms in pupa or beetle form? I haven't found any information on this.
Answer to my own question after keeping a black widow and feeding it a variety of things: yes, black widows will gladly eat mealworms in worm, pupa or beetle form
I got interested in Black Widow Spiders when I was 5 years old and I mistook it for a black Halloween spider ring. I almost picked it up and but she flashed her hourglass at me and ran underneath our shed....at that point I was hooked. I've handled hundreds of male Black Widow's with venom just as deadly but the fangs are not big enough to penetrate human skin, besides females get quite cantankerous when disturbed and males will roam lookingforfemales. For Elders, children and those severely allergic a bite could make for a bad day....but I've been bit when I was working on my vehicle's brakes a number of years ago w/no reaction (not too fair but I'm immune to several Nuerotoxins) and for healthy adults a lot of pain comes from a bite. Black Widow venom is designed to take down very large prey as is the silk. The average spider web is 10× stronger than steel ...but the Black Widow's web is 10× stronger than the average spider's silk (making Black Widow silk 100× stronger than steel). In point of fact, the US Military made a shirt of Black Widow Silk that stopped 7.62×51mm/.308win Machine Gun rounds from penetrating the shirt. That fact prompted science to genetically modify Goats to produce spider silk in the milk, more efficient than harvesting silk from a spider. You've made a wonderful video and enjoy your spiders.
Just found one in my front porch.. had been wanting one for a couple months and kept finding false windows but to my surprise this girl was in the open.. I don’t think she’s a full adult and I hope not because I definitely don’t want babies 😄🖤
F THAT IT CAN MEET MY NEWSPAPER HEAD ON
My black widow spiders eggs just hatched I don't know what to do with them
Can I use cannabis plants for my widows home?
look for a big black widow and name one Mortica.
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I keep them as well and had two egg sacs hatch. One today actually. Raising the babies is difficult though most of them just end up dying even if you separate them like I did.
I use Turkish roaches for my spiders scorpions and lizards
Underground reptiles has them
Can't find any latrodectus breeders here in Canada :( if anyone has any leads pls lmk!!
Life span?
It seems cruel to keep a black widow in a jar..... wouldn't that be boring?
I NEVER NEW BLACK WIDOWS COULD BE PETS , MY ENVIRONMENT IS OVERPOPULATED WITH BLACK WIDOWS 😢
They aren't pets. They belong in the wild.
They may be dangerous but they’re some of the coolest spiders the glossy looking backs they have they ain’t scary just dangerous
I find them in my yard all the time and they get the Ortho treatment every time
Feed them Blood of your Enemies
That’s always an option
you are nuts
Wolf spiders and brown recluse are the most ugly spiders and some other house spiders jumping spiders aren’t though and black widow females are the coolest but best to leave them be if you see a web outside thy could have babies and can be agressive
We caught one under my toddlers toy dump truck and it had egg sacs but didn't seem aggressive and ended up playing dead
Do you have any recommendations on household items to use? I just caught a black widow in my school locker room since the staff would kill her. My parents are very against keeping spiders in the house so I’d like to keep her as secret as possible by not asking my parents to buy supplies.