New Southern Black Widow Spider Habitat Transfer

New Southern Black Widow Spider Habitat Transfer
The three most common black widow spiders in the USA are: the southern black widow (Latrodectus mactans), the western black widow (Latrodectus Hesperus), and the northern black widow (Latrodectus variolus).
All three of these spiders have an very potent venom containing the neurotoxin latrotoxin.
Black Widow Spider: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrode...
From Wiki: Latrodectus is a broadly distributed genus of spiders with several species that, together, are commonly known as true widows. This group is composed of those often loosely called black widow spiders, brown widow spiders, and similar spiders. However, such general "common names" are of limited use, as the diversity of species is much greater. A member of the family Theridiidae, this genus contains 32 species, which include several North American "black widows" (southern black widow Latrodectus mactans, western black widow Latrodectus hesperus, and northern black widow Latrodectus variolus).
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[@amgtarantulas]

Nice widow! That cage is interesting!

[@SpiderSpiderSpiders]

I recently found these small spider cube habitats on Amazon. They work well for spiders that prefer to be up in a web, and it helps if it's one of the slower spiders (I wouldn't use this for a tarantula sling). They do have their obvious limitations with the way they open, but they have one very good feature. The vents on the sides are small enough to stop spider babies and baby mantids from escaping. I recently had an unscheduled hatching of western black widows, and the vent mesh kept them all inside with no escapes.

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh]

@@SpiderSpiderSpiders OMG, YOU BREED THEM????😫😫🤣 I do understand that we need spiders in the world, but I wish they would conduct their business OUTSIDE of my house!!🤣And why do they have to be so damn poisonous??🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SpiderSpiderSpiders]

I don't usually purposely breed them, they kind of do that on their own. A black widow only has to breed once, and then she can lay viable egg sacs for the rest of her life (1-3 egg sacs every couple of weeks). I remove (and dispose of) the egg sacs before they hatch (3-4 weeks after they are laid), but a couple of times I've had them hatch early.

[@amgtarantulas]

@@SpiderSpiderSpiders Oh gosh! That would be crazy to have to constantly home little black widow babies

[@amgtarantulas]

@@SpiderSpiderSpiders def dont want them to be loose at all!

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh]

You would never get me anywhere NEAR that supposed there was a billion pounds in there! Wearing a hazmat suit! Over a spacesuit!! With a…..have I made my point yet??😳😳

[@SpiderSpiderSpiders]

So, I guess I'm really doing a service by posting this black widow spider video here on YT; I handle the spiders so other people don't have too😁

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh]

@@SpiderSpiderSpiders
YES!! YES,YOU ARE!! And doing a grand job of it too!! 👍🏻😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SpiderSpiderSpiders]

Thanks; around here we have a lot of those big brown giant house spiders, which left me not liking spiders at all. But after I started filming black widows several years ago, I learned spiders are not that bad when viewed thru my camera lens. So as long as they stay inside their habitat, spiders and I seem to be getting along fine.

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh]

@@SpiderSpiderSpiders I take it you live in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia, perhaps? You’ve probably guessed I’m in Scotland? The spiders here seem to be getting SOOOOOO BIG!!😫😫What’s your theory about that?? I SWEAR one ran by me the other day wearing a hoodie and had a flick knife!! 😳😳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SpiderSpiderSpiders]

I actually live on the US west coast, Oregon. Black widows don't live in my area, although the western black widow lives a couple hundred miles away. Black widows (like all spiders, dangerous or not), can be legally purchased online, and shipped domestically. As for the giant house spiders we have here, they originally came from the UK. The thought is that some time ago they landed in North America in shipping containers at two locations (B.C. Canada and Michigan USA). And have been migrating south ever since. The first time I saw one, I was laying on the floor watching TV (in a house I had just moved in to), one ran by me, and I thought it was a mouse...as it turned out, it was much worse as I found a dozen of them over the next couple of weeks. Spiders are always there, even big spiders. But it seems we rarely notice them until we actually start looking for them.