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Hauler

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Yanked some bushes out of the front yard today. Then I used them to send some smoke signals to my neighbors.

This one says "Come on over. Bring beer."

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Grateful Dude

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Black widow sitting on its eggs
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My son found one in the yard a couple years ago. He was all like “hey papa, look at this cool spider I found!” As he sat there like a half inch away from it lol.

unfortunately for that spider, I get paid to collect endangered spiders and beetles. So I grabbed my aspirator and a vial of ethanol to preserve/kill. Have him sitting on my shelf collection of pickled critters at the office. The ethanol leached all of the red, but you can still clearly see the hourglass.

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Grateful Dude said:
My son found one in the yard a couple years ago. He was all like “hey papa, look at this cool spider I found!” As he sat there like a half inch away from it lol.

unfortunately for that spider, I get paid to collect endangered spiders and beetles. So I grabbed my aspirator and a vial of ethanol to preserve/kill. Have him sitting on my shelf collection of pickled critters at the office. The ethanol leached all of the red, but you can still clearly see the hourglass.

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Murderer!
 
Hauler

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Grateful Dude said:
My son found one in the yard a couple years ago. He was all like “hey papa, look at this cool spider I found!” As he sat there like a half inch away from it lol.

unfortunately for that spider, I get paid to collect endangered spiders and beetles. So I grabbed my aspirator and a vial of ethanol to preserve/kill. Have him sitting on my shelf collection of pickled critters at the office. The ethanol leached all of the red, but you can still clearly see the hourglass.

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I've actually caught a black widow that had a white hourglass. At first I assumed it wasn't a widow, but after some research I found out the hourglass can be red, white or yellow.
 
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I've actually caught a black widow that had a white hourglass. At first I assumed it wasn't a widow, but after some research I found out the hourglass can be red, white or yellow.
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Interesting. I’ve only seen a handful of them, but all were red. This one was bright red, but after a couple days in ethanol it was bleached white.
 
Hauler

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Interesting. I’ve only seen a handful of them, but all were red. This one was bright red, but after a couple days in ethanol it was bleached white.
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You probably already know this - but they are called "widows" because after mating the female eats the male.
 
jason73

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Grateful Dude said:
Interesting. I’ve only seen a handful of them, but all were red. This one was bright red, but after a couple days in ethanol it was bleached white.
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i see several every day . they are in everything i pick up or move . they love living in the irrigation boxes and pretty much under anything that doesnt move. they are a cool looking spider and rather passive. i would probably let them live if i didnt have to stick my hands in to the irrigation boxes 56x a week
 
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Grateful Dude said:
My son found one in the yard a couple years ago. He was all like “hey papa, look at this cool spider I found!” As he sat there like a half inch away from it lol.

unfortunately for that spider, I get paid to collect endangered spiders and beetles. So I grabbed my aspirator and a vial of ethanol to preserve/kill. Have him sitting on my shelf collection of pickled critters at the office. The ethanol leached all of the red, but you can still clearly see the hourglass.

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Found one on the handle of the water hose I use to water my plants
when I was just about to grab the handle

Fed the little fucker to one of the Hyllus Diardi females

That will learn em"....
 
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i see several every day . they are in everything i pick up or move . they love living in the irrigation boxes and pretty much under anything that doesnt move. they are a cool looking spider and rather passive. i would probably let them live if i didnt have to stick my hands in to the irrigation boxes 56x a week
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Yeah they all over So Cal

Some of them the size of half dollars
 
Rambo John J

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Hauler said:
They build the shittiest webs.
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I only find them in woodpiles and once saw them in a cedar roof.

Worked a roof that had a thousand+ of them feeding on ant colonies. Nuttin but spider and ant colonies all over under this roof...Was a cedar shingle tear off with slats, tore the cedar shingles and it was just ants and widows everywhere haha
Sheeted that shit with a vengeance

fucking disgusting
 
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