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  1. Widowman10

    Possible for a Redback spider to be in the US?

    Very rarely, it is variable by location/population, and it’s never nearly as pronounced as the hasselti. Whenever I’ve seen posts like these over the years it’s nearly always a picture of an immature female… I have seen some tiny hints of white carry into the adult stage of hesperus too, but...
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    Possible for a Redback spider to be in the US?

    Hello fellow Coloradan! Classic hesperus!
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    Is it known which latrodectus species has the most potent venom?

    I wish my site was still up too! I should get on that, sorry all... EDIT: I believe I got it back up and working again. DISCLAIMER: I haven't made any edits to it in many, many years :) Google sites, and Photobucket - oh how I date myself with those...
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    Breeding Latrodectus

    https://sites.google.com/site/widowman10/
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    How many times can a single male black widow mate?

    Great question @Marc Spider! I personally have done 2. @pannaking22 - dang! haha that 2nd emboli barely made it sounds like!
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    Anyone have scorpion spermatophore pictures?

    fantastic Deadly1! thanks!
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    New Latrodectus species discovered!

    This might be interesting if you can get access to it: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23610251?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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    New Latrodectus species discovered!

    Thanks man! This was such a great article, I very much enjoyed reading it!! And those images, are you kidding me?! What an incredible find, and an amazing spider. Love the notes that state it was predominantly found higher up (80+ cm), and the coloration looks quite different than the others...
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    Salticid Specialist

    Wow, very cool. Thanks for sharing pannaking!
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    Urgent: Pinning a Black Widow and Abdomen deflation.

    a couple of thoughts to add: 1) I kept several small vials in the freezer with adult female Latros in them. Granted it was in the freezer, but everything was preserved perfectly - abdomen, color, etc. It was interesting to take them out (briefly!) every once in awhile to refresh my memory. 2)...
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    Latrodectus and Loxosceles keepers

    I have seen many different Latro species in the trade over the years. They seem to come in waves (maybe from imports?) and then disappear. I also know of a few people that keep the exotic species, but don't post or check in very regularly here. If you can snag them when they pop up, and keep...
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    Possible for a Redback spider to be in the US?

    Right on! Thx @The Snark :cigar: I put quite a bit of work into finding those values, but I'm not sure I saved the sources or could recall exactly where I found all of them. I remember reading differing reports of values as well, so I went with the more trusted/recent studies for those values...
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    Comment by 'Widowman10' in media 'Latrodectus hesperus drinking'

    @Krystal Anne you're absolutely right - roughly 3 years. You could probably stretch it just a little further if you cooled them and slowed things down just a little. :)
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    predators of Theridiidae?

    I apologize for the image fail (it's been several years since I've updated the page and checked the image links), but there is some info here on predation of Latrodectus sp.: https://sites.google.com/site/widowman10/predation-of-widows
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    Black Widow (Carolyn Jones)

    I definitely have, but (as usual) there is a lot of variation. Seen everything from the typical solid hourglass to no hourglass at all. I even remember one that was really asymmetrical (left to right, not top to bottom), as if there was some sort of deformity almost. That one was unique. But you...
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    Black Widow (Carolyn Jones)

    Did you find her there in WY? I've seen that exact hourglass pattern many times on hesperus here in CO
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    Latrodectus sp. found in Ontario, Canada. Need Id

    Could you post a few good pictures of the eggsac? That might help as hesperus and variolus have fairly different eggsacs both in shape and color. Also: pictures of the slings might be helpful as well. Variolus differ from mactans in both patterning and color (not that I think it's a mactans...
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    Latrodectus ID

    Interesting. I have almost no experience with the Central/South American widows besides pictures and literature. I'm not sure how often mature curacaviensis retain white markings (on top of the abdomen). I know full well how variation in coloring and patterns work in Latrodectus, but the...
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    A Hard Lesson Learned

    true moral of the story: carry the spider in the store with you and let her pick out her new home :D
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