Black Widow

InTheWoods

InTheWoods

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Here's a Southern Black Widow lurking under the fake plastic boulder that hides our well. Suppose this goes along with living in the woods. I kept my distance and cropped after the fact. Fuji 80 mm macro lens handheld at 1/1250 sec, f/4, ISO 5000.
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A couple days ago I was doing a handyman job under my neighbor's deck and came face to face with one. I thought about doing the humanitarian thing like a catch and release, but something in my brain said, "Like hell you are!", so I decided to give it a one way ticket to Black Widow heaven. It's going to happier there anyway.
 
InTheWoods said:
Here's a Southern Black Widow lurking under the fake plastic boulder that hides our well. Suppose this goes along with living in the woods. I kept my distance and cropped after the fact. Fuji 80 mm macro lens handheld at 1/1250 sec, f/4, ISO 5000.
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We call them Red Back Spiders in Aussie land., certain to find one or two in every garden.
 
I remember having Black Widow nests in our cactus plants outside our front door in the Arizona desert.
We never bothered them, and they never bothered us. Had little kids at the time too.

The black widows were only one of many distractions that you live with there .. scorpions, tarantulas, gila monsters, earwigs and many poisonous snakes were common too.
 
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