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Well judging by the location infos that I have I'd say Cape Verde, Lybia, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran, SE. Russia, and perhaps some other like Jordan, Syria. Unfortunately from those poor regions details like this is hard to be collected.

Unfortunately pallidus doesn't live in S. Europe.. However it would be soo good :)

One day I found several mites on my mantis' abdomen. I put her into a new enclosure, she was doing fine. A week later she stoped eating, couldn't walk and died in a few hours. I cleaned it's abdomen and saw that mites ate the exoskeleton and reached internal organs. Because of this case I always...

I agree.. It's definitely extensa.

imo #1, #3 and #4 are Pisaura mirabilis. #3 is a female.

btw I've heard from a great source that these are not T. modesta, even not Thelcticopis..

Wiki is not the best resource. Round 6 month ago I tried to check Phoneutria's LD50, and I found a value in a wiki article. I've checked the resource. The article what was wiki's LD50 refernce did not contain any numbers, any LD50 values. So if you read something there, you'd better check the...

Great find! How common are widows there?

Really easy to keep... They need humid enclosures and food. They are extremely fast, but they don't move until you touch them or hit their box/tank. This means you can remove skins, clean the box, whatever you want without problems. My ones have never tried to bite me, they're pretty calm. They...

Sometimes it happens :D You were lucky.. Was it a male or a female? Btw yesterday I dreamed that I've found a huge Phoneutria in my house, later 2 other in the garden. After I woke up I wanted to check my new finds.. but.. I realised, that it was just a dream :(

Great finds! First one is Argiope lobata, very common in the mediterranean area. I've found many females in huge webs in Cyprus. Webs were round one meter in diameter. Third is a Sparassidae sp. and fourt is a Lycosidae sp.

I'm pretty sure that is not a hasselti.. They never have a red dot. When the red stripe appears their abdomen is white with black stripes. Later it become black (stripe doesn't change) It could be another Theridiidae sp.

A good site of Latrodectus spp. in southern Africa: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2005/april/buttonspider.htm

A man should be hairy...

I have redbacks, and never had any problems with inbreeding. From my experiences it is a very 'strong' species.

Yeah, you're right! By the way coccinues doesn't live in Honduras..

That antivenin bank is quite interesting.. I've checked the 'Antivenom List' and found a really deadly genus :D (last one) 'Brazilian Arachnid ˇ Tityus ˇ Phoneutria ("aranha-armadeira") ˇ Locsoceles ("aranha-marrom")'

I've found this: 'So how dangerous are nigriventer? Deaths have occured and during the years 1926-1996 14 fatalities happened. Nowadays there are a good working serum available in Brazil that are produced on Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo. Statistic over bites and fatalities (information...

I belive its a C. coccineus. A bigger pic would be better.. @burmish101 I've read that article, too. Wasn't it 0.1100 or 0.01100?

LOL check the third image.. That spider is not a Phoneutria.