SOS..Black Widow Spider (garage, yard, business)

[klysik]

Originally Posted by MINIcoopKJG

The spider isn't showing its belly in the picture, so I can't tell if there is an hourglass, and I'm not getting real close to look. I will check it out again tonight. The web looks like a widow's web and the legs look like widow legs to me.

I don't know anything about the web but I do know their legs are very similar to a very common spider that is local. Seems to me it should be more black to be a black widow...but again, hard to tell. Strange cause it says the hourglass is on the "belly" but unless spiders are "upside down", the black widow I had at my house, the hourglass was on. It's back (and I had it confirmed by a professional).

[MINIcoopKJG]

Originally Posted by klysik

I don't know anything about the web but I do know their legs are very similar to a very common spider that is local. Seems to me it should be more black to be a black widow...but again, hard to tell. Strange cause it says the hourglass is on the "belly" but unless spiders are "upside down", the black widow I had at my house, the hourglass was on. It's back (and I had it confirmed by a professional).

Could yours have been a northern black widow? Those have an hourglass on the belly and also have red on their backs.

I just checked and my spider isn't in the web right now. I was shining a flashlight on it when I took the picture. There is a black widow that lives in the drainage hole up the street from me. I have seen its hourglass. It has legs like my doorway spider. I will have to get a picture of it one night. It is kind of cool.

[Silversides]

Originally Posted by scuba steve

Doesn't look like it to me. Either way,
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

You are just full of surprises Vos rabidus Latine

[klysik]

Originally Posted by MINIcoopKJG

Could yours have been a northern black widow? Those have an hourglass on the belly and also have red on their backs.

I just checked and my spider isn't in the web right now. I was shining a flashlight on it when I took the picture. There is a black widow that lives in the drainage hole up the street from me. I have seen its hourglass. It has legs like my doorway spider. I will have to get a picture of it one night. It is kind of cool.

Yes, it's seems to be the northern. Didn't know that. Hoping they are less poisonous?

[makeawish3]

Do you guys have your homes sprayed quarterly for bugs? Mabe that would keep spiders away

[MINIcoopKJG]

I have a monthly spray inside and I'm pretty sure the outside is sprayed once a month, but I think it is around the property and not individual yards.

[StuffedCabbage]

Originally Posted by MINIcoopKJG

I'm pretty sure that this is a black widow that has set up a home right outside my door on the ceiling of my little overhang porch.

Judging by the shape of that spider, that light spot (they do vary ya know - not always orange) and that web construction/shape: 90% chance that is a widow. Touch the web. If it feels like steel wire, it definitely is a widow. That's the method I use. Be careful though...they can move very fast.

[moneill]

I have outside done quarterl and inside done as required...if I see stuff --- so far only once in three years and onl some rooms.

[MINIcoopKJG]

Originally Posted by StuffedCabbage

Judging by the shape of that spider, that light spot (they do vary ya know - not always orange) and that web construction/shape: 90% chance that is a widow. Touch the web. If it feels like steel wire, it definitely is a widow. That's the method I use. Be careful though...they can move very fast.

I ended up spraying it with home defense and it was gone after that. This summer I kept having the widows on my patio set at night.

[soulsea]

Okay so mrs soulsea and I just arrived in MP this evening, are house hunting for the next three days ... now this thread caught my eye.

If we decide to buy here, how often do I have to have our property nuked with poisonous chemicals so as to scorch the earth in order to keep out all the critters that are fixin' to kill me and my family?

Agent orange, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, mini thermonuclear stink bombs, or what else will keep snakes, spiders, mosquitoes, noseeums, and tupperware carrying neighbors away from my property?

Thanxbye.