We brought our Meyers lemon tree in for the winter, and Mrs. Paco was watering it when she found this thing skulking around the bottom of the pot...
The photo isn't very good (the old girl started trying to scurry away when I closed in on her with the camera), but I think you should be able to make out the red hourglass figure: the unmistakable sign of a black widow.
Normally when I see bugs and spiders in the house, I try to capture them and put them outside; however, I wasn't taking any changes with this one, so it was sent packing to spider heaven.
Good move.
ReplyDeleteWhere I live, we have black widow AND brown recluse spiders. Arguably bites from the brown recluse are worse than the black widow.
And ... ... it's hard to identify a brown recluse.
Hence, ALL spiders invading my interior domain DIE.
I've had a couple of redbacks, the widow's Australian cousin, on the premises. I'm happy with them staying out in the sunroom, which is basically a wall of cement sheet and glass tacked out around the back end of the house, but once I find them in the region of the essential facilities (IYKWIM) they are likewise permanently dispatched.
ReplyDeleteHuntman spiders are worse in my opinion. Too many times I've woken in the morning and found one parked up where the wall meets the ceiling, directly overhead.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of spiders, either. I think God put'em on Earth as an object of scorn, for the times there isn't a Dimocrat handy.
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