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That's one of them "King of Animalia" spiders.

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Class: Arachnida
  • Order: Araneae
  • Suborder: Araneomorphae
  • Family: Scytodidae
  • Genus: Scytodes
  • Species: Scytodes thoracica

 

14 hours ago, Wiler77 said:

Not an expert, but I think that's part of the widow family (i.e. extremely dangerous). They can have all sorts of different markings other than the classic hourglass.

P.s. are you still alive?

 

You are on the right track. Its a male black widow. The females are the classic solid black, chunky body (no Vic), shorter legs. Plus the hourglass shape is on the underside of the abdomen for females. Those markings are on the top.

Males are less venomous, and less likely to bite, and don't make webs. You rarely see them, compared to the females.

Not an expert, but I think that's part of the widow family (i.e. extremely dangerous). They can have all sorts of different markings other than the classic hourglass.
P.s. are you still alive?

He is…can’t speak for his son
53 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

You are on the right track. Its a male black widow. The females are the classic solid black, chunky body (no Vic), shorter legs. Plus the hourglass shape is on the underside of the abdomen for females. Those markings are on the top.

Males are less venomous, and less likely to bite, and don't make webs. You rarely see them, compared to the females.

Good info.

It's a pretty damn cool looking spider.

I did not know that. Guess that means there’s no worrisome ladies around, so that’s good

And I guess I could just google, but that’s no fun. If they don’t make webs, how do they feed?

2 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

And I guess I could just google, but that’s no fun. If they don’t make webs, how do they feed?

Educating yourself is fun. You should try it. I googled it. I have your answer. I’m not going to share it with you. 

Edited by WhatTheBuck

  • 2 years later...

Looks like she already shed all of her babies.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

I killed 2 female black widows at our neighborhood pool this summer.  They were living in the large aluminum troughs we use for beer at our parties.  RIP killer spiders.

I think I have pictures, let me look.

1 hour ago, freyguy said:

Looks like she already shed all of her babies.

Good luck sleeping tonight.

Spiders don't scare me at all. They kill the bad stuff. 

 

3 minutes ago, huge said:

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Bad ass.

I generally dont bother spiders but having that bitch living where people will be putting their hands, cannot abide

My brother was stung once, my dad twice, by black widows. Only one required hospitalization, when my dad got stung right on the neck over his jugular. Even then he was only sick for a couple of days, not life threatening. 

He did die about 40 years later from Alzheimer’s related complications, so who knows. FAFO.  

Edited by nnm

  • 1 month later...

 

spiders don't sting, they bite. 

The more you know. 

 

Once I stopped at a picnic area along a highway. Sat on the bench to a picnic table, and laid flat to stretch out. I could see the underside of the picnic table. Saw probably 10 or 15 black widows in nests on the underside of the picnic table. 

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