Keeping Black Widow Spiders as Pets!
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- Опубликовано: 11 апр 2023
- Black widows make great pet spiders and I’ll tell ya why!! Thanks for much for watching please like and subscribe!
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My black widow will repeatedly and aggressively bite the prey and as she walks away she sprays webbing onto it until it's dead. Never saw a widow do this before but it's amazing to watch.
I found a false widow in my kitchen that I kept as a pet, and she produced a sack so we will see. I now want a black widow, they are so beautiful!
Do itttt!
i have quite a few false widows
@@perfecttalkz4259aren't they beautiful? I have three and their colouration varies so much and is so do beautiful
I worked at a pallet company repairing old used weather beaten pallets and have found widows in the corner of a pallet with its web and would take the pallet deep into the pallet yard and hide it on everyone so the widow wouldn't be harmed, I love all spiders
You're a good dude for that. Thank u
I have been looking into getting a jumping spider for so long but today I found a black widow inside one of my son’s toys in the yard. I luckily had an enclosure I was going to use for a scorpion but I used it for the black widow I caught and she seems pretty happy in there already. Thanks for all the tips and I love that I’m not the only one who wants to keep them lol!
Yes, I love how passionate you are about them! I love my black widow, her name is Spicy and I think she's super interesting! I got her a few months ago at a reptile expo and to my surprise she laid an egg sac! I took it out placed it in a container and froze it for 2 days (they are not native where I live). Then I kept it on my desk I figured I could use it in the art I make with Spicy when she passes. However a couple weeks ago I noticed black dots around the sac and to my surprise the egg had hatched!! I froze it for 2 days, and it was nearly 50 days after it was laid when it hatched!!! Thankfully I have friend who took it to experiment and play around with raising them.
I caught a female black widow and want to keep it as long as I can, I love spiders but I am deathly afraid of them so being close to one like this is helping me get over that fear. I planned on getting a tarantula but found this wild beauty instead, every question I had was covered in this video and I thank you and will look into the enclosures that you have mentioned, love the video and will definitely be watching more! I fear she is carrying babies bc she’s absolutely enormous, so I’ll definitely be removing the egg sack once she lays it, but I won’t be disposing of it I’ll simply place it somewhere where they should have a fighting chance to get to live.
I just bred a pair of Red Widow spiders, latrodectus bishopi. I guess they are kind of rare. Of you want some when they hatch let me know. Your channel is really good! Thanks for sharing content.
That’s amazing! I would be super interested in slings! Do you have Instagram?
Great care video for beautiful spiders. Love your content 🖤
Love you and your content, I have followed you for a while, but this is the first time I have commented. Love from North Shields, England.
Thank you so much for your support! I really appreciate it!
Great video! Thank you for the info!
Omg the ending LOL "Don't cuddle black widows!!"
Very informative video
I’m so happy you enjoyed my information! I feel like I talked a lot but I had a lot to say haha
@@SlightlyVenomous omg nooo!!! I love listening to different facts and information! Keep it going!
I find them in my yard all the time and they get the Ortho treatment every time
I love these spiders. Thanks for the video!
Another great video, friend. I can tell that you are very passionate about your widow babies, and I love your enclosures. You are as adorable as ever!
I absolutely loved and enjoyed your video ❤
This was so great and helpful thank you so much
I have been catching black widows in my home for a local collector and only one died waiting for pickup but it was one too many
I have reptile pets so I'll be able to use some of what I have to make sure that the spiders are happy while they wait to go to their forever home ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
They may be dangerous but they’re some of the coolest spiders the glossy looking backs they have they ain’t scary just dangerous
great vid. always nice to see you.
Thank you friend!
I very recently rescued a black widow my coworker was going to kill. I decided to try and keep her. This video answered so many of my questions! Thank you!!
I was not aware there was a shortage of Captive bred Black widows. I see them all the time, but I have not considered them. My wife has the fear of snakes and spiders and I have the fear of clowns. I told her I'll take care of the spiders and snakes you can care for the clowns.
Clowns, are scary.
I literally just caught a black widow who has basically been my room mate since I moved in; recently she came out of her cozy home under my stairs to make her way to a wall in my room (my room is in the basement) due to rain because unfortunately the rain has flooded her home under my stairs. At first I was just going to allow her to find her own new home but my cat Doom noticed her pretty quickly and kept trying to catch and eat her. So I decided to help her out a bit to find a new cozy corner. In that process I decided to just catch her and make her a cozy home. She is now in a fairly large jar with pink rocks, a semi large plastic skull and a large cinnamon stick I baked (just to be safe) so she had a way to build her web. At first she hid but she finally came out and to say she is beautiful is an understatement. I had no clue how big she really was until she started creating her web in the home I made for her. SHE IS MASSIVE and I am here for it. This video helped me decide that I'd catch her rather than ignore her or risk her dying by placing her outside. Her name is Lilith and now resides in her jar on my bedside table.
Awesome video!
They are definitely beautiful spiders! They are plentiful around my yard, not sure I want to keep one. With my luck I would find a gravid one and the babies would escape and populate my house ☺️☺️
Great care video! 🕷️❤️
luckily if you do keep a black widow and it happens to lay eggs, you can always remove the egg sac (they make extra long tweezers that will do the job nicely if you dont want to try poking at it with a stick or get your hand near the spider) and dispose of it. sources vary widely but they say the eggs take between 1 and 4 weeks to hatch so you'll have time to remove them.
I have a black widow as a pet as well I love her so much
They are amazing critters!
@@SlightlyVenomous i know they are lovely
Great video,still doing research and deciding if I should keep one but it's looking like yes for me
If you're not careful or too careful I'm not sure, you'll have a mealworm farm and unlimited mealworms. I have that. Every 2 months I put chicken layer pellets (with out antibiotics) at the bottom of a 5 quarts bin with papertowel rolls and using a seive I remove most of the biggest mealworms and beatles. The old one I just leave and once I'm sure all the baby mealworms are removed, they like carrots and will burrow into them, I mix the spent mealworm food with soil for my house plants and starter garden plants.
I'm gonna keep my eye open for one now. Caught a jumper spider and a wolf spider keeping them is Kool. So thank you for informing us, love your videos keep up the hard work.
I’m so happy you enjoyed and that you’re loving spiders!
I feed my two spiders. Wild caught house caught bugs including flies, pantry, moths, etc. We don't use any sprays in our yard and our animals have been kept for years and never gotten sick
I really appreciate this because I'm brand new to my black widow and now I know I need to get more stuff to clutter up her little container. I got her the smaller sized. She's still not very big but I guess I need to get a bigger one
I keep them as well and had two egg sacs hatch. One today actually. Raising the babies is difficult though most of them just end up dying even if you separate them like I did.
Need HELP 😆 the Widow I just contained laid a sac last night. I’ve raised 6 tarantulas from slings, but I’ve never had a spider species before! I did feed her a large cricket after letting her vibe in her enclosure over night & she ate so I was really happy about that!
ANY advice on how to handle or what to do with these babies will be greatly appreciated! I am just trying to help them survive!
I did post a similar post to Tarantula Kat! I have been watching her channel for quite some time, but stumbled upon yours doing Widow research!
Thank you for all the info!
NEVERMIND about my questions. I will get a spray bottle today and spray the hole with vinegar. THANKS
One of my new wild caught females from this summer layed an egg sac and it will be my first time trying to raise the babies I do think if it goes well that I am going to try and sell them. I’m a farmer and found so many under the water melons this summer! My first female that I ever caught and still have her name is binx I haven’t halved the momma yet but I’m also dying to get a red widow and I want to name her jinx!! How cute binx the black widow and jinx the red widow! Hopefully I’ll think of a name for momma soon.
I'm getting a L.menavodi and L.elegans, enclosures ready, can't wait!😭
I want to keep a black widow so bad, but my husband draws the line at the ones that scare him 😂 I talked him into a wolf spider, so maybe I can still change his mind lol
tell him it will be kept very secure in its container and will never get out!
I love black widows but you don’t wanna stick your hands anywhere you can’t see that has the conditions they need around where I live😂 I’m a landscaper and I can’t imagine how many times I’ve brushed them sticking my hands where I shouldnt but I ran into a infestation of them in a ditch. we had to remove excess rocks that the city had over filled😂 are 87 year old neighbors was picking up rocks with them on it and smashing them throwing black widows around and none of them came out and tried to bite. I grew up thinking they would jump on you but I think that’s just a good thing to tell kids😂 literally 100s which is crazy because the ditch completely floods but yah they were crawling EVERYWHERE it was freaky but got me past the fear of being bitten. They’re pretty chilled out honestly. Now I’m just paranoid about copperheads because I raked a nice one onto my foot the other day( landscaper of 14 years very familiar with wildlife)and it took off instead of biting me then a week later almost ran over a timber rattler mountain biking 😂
I see you also have my favorite animal, a big fluffy kitty cat 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
I have two grown captive Western black widows for sale right now. Now you said you were looking for captive bred
I got interested in Black Widow Spiders when I was 5 years old and I mistook it for a black Halloween spider ring. I almost picked it up and but she flashed her hourglass at me and ran underneath our shed....at that point I was hooked. I've handled hundreds of male Black Widow's with venom just as deadly but the fangs are not big enough to penetrate human skin, besides females get quite cantankerous when disturbed and males will roam lookingforfemales. For Elders, children and those severely allergic a bite could make for a bad day....but I've been bit when I was working on my vehicle's brakes a number of years ago w/no reaction (not too fair but I'm immune to several Nuerotoxins) and for healthy adults a lot of pain comes from a bite. Black Widow venom is designed to take down very large prey as is the silk. The average spider web is 10× stronger than steel ...but the Black Widow's web is 10× stronger than the average spider's silk (making Black Widow silk 100× stronger than steel). In point of fact, the US Military made a shirt of Black Widow Silk that stopped 7.62×51mm/.308win Machine Gun rounds from penetrating the shirt. That fact prompted science to genetically modify Goats to produce spider silk in the milk, more efficient than harvesting silk from a spider. You've made a wonderful video and enjoy your spiders.
That treehouse is giving me Bella and Edward wedding realness.
Lol! I never realized that
look for a big black widow and name one Mortica.
What environment is best to keep them in? Like in the shade, dark, sunny, or does it matter?
I caught a blackwidow years ago and she laid 3 separate egg sacks a few months apart.
Underground reptiles has them
This question is for anyone. Can I keep two brown widows in the same enclosure? I have two brown widows in separate micro habitats but I’d like to catch this black widow in my yard before my roommate sprays him. I want to know if it’s cool to move the browns in together so I have somewhere to keep the black widow.
I have a question. I found a HUGE black widow in the corner of my room (which I smooshed) because of kids. Here is my question..one night around dusk, she decided to leave...I am wondering if they stay wirh their eggs..or if she wasnt pregnant..she was starving and went on her way(Im worried about eggs) what are the chances she left eggs? As she was alone in here, with no male? How long will they carry the eggs before they make the sack? Please give me your opinion. Thanks!!
The hole she was in is not accessible for me to check.
Have you seen Tarantula Kats coffin shaped black widow cage, kind of different ⚰️⚰️
I use Turkish roaches for my spiders scorpions and lizards
F THAT IT CAN MEET MY NEWSPAPER HEAD ON
Just found one in my front porch.. had been wanting one for a couple months and kept finding false windows but to my surprise this girl was in the open.. I don’t think she’s a full adult and I hope not because I definitely don’t want babies 😄🖤
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Hey. I need help!!! I have a black widow who apparently trusts me just a little too much I am in an apartment. I discovered her one evening on my kitchen floor. I initially tried to kill her but she made it impossible. Over the following months, she peeks out and hangs out in her web. Like shes comfortable around me. I don't know what to do. I tell her that nature outside is best but she doesn't seem to want to go anywhere. Her web is in a corner and she hides out of any possible reach under the cabinet. I wish I knew what to do. Catching her isn't easy because she climbs out of reach. And shes fast. I don't want to hurt her but I need to figure something out. Most ppl would say kill her but two different people have tried to catch her put her back in nature and failed.
My black widow spiders eggs just hatched I don't know what to do with them
Do black widows eat mealworms in pupa or beetle form? I haven't found any information on this.
Answer to my own question after keeping a black widow and feeding it a variety of things: yes, black widows will gladly eat mealworms in worm, pupa or beetle form
Can I use cannabis plants for my widows home?
Can't find any latrodectus breeders here in Canada :( if anyone has any leads pls lmk!!
Life span?
I NEVER NEW BLACK WIDOWS COULD BE PETS , MY ENVIRONMENT IS OVERPOPULATED WITH BLACK WIDOWS 😢
Feed them Blood of your Enemies
That’s always an option
Wolf spiders and brown recluse are the most ugly spiders and some other house spiders jumping spiders aren’t though and black widow females are the coolest but best to leave them be if you see a web outside thy could have babies and can be agressive
They aren't pets. They belong in the wild.
Enough of the small talk We wanna see you rub it and pet its belly you know give it a good scratch! Sorta like what you can do with a cat