Hey guys, first time posting here so hopefully you could help us out,
we recently imported a car from arizona to the uk about a month ago, and noticed a suprisingly strong thick web all underneath the body like it was tying the car down to the floor. And after a couple weeks of clearing it all out to watch the web return overnight , we accidentally stumbled accross the spider causing the webs, and with it being quite a shock being such a big spider, the inital reaction was to swipe it with a stick, but unfortunatley killing it in the process , now i dont have any doubt at all that this was a black widow, And just tonight we noticed a second much smaller spider on the car, and this time we managed to save it ! I'm not 100% certain that its another widow But the body shape is very simmilar "large abdomen and extra long two front legs".
But its a black spider, this time with white spots rather than solid red,
the question is ... now what do we do with it ? We personally dont want to keep it, But we also dont want to set it free into the wild nor kill it ?
we recently imported a car from arizona to the uk about a month ago, and noticed a suprisingly strong thick web all underneath the body like it was tying the car down to the floor. And after a couple weeks of clearing it all out to watch the web return overnight , we accidentally stumbled accross the spider causing the webs, and with it being quite a shock being such a big spider, the inital reaction was to swipe it with a stick, but unfortunatley killing it in the process , now i dont have any doubt at all that this was a black widow, And just tonight we noticed a second much smaller spider on the car, and this time we managed to save it ! I'm not 100% certain that its another widow But the body shape is very simmilar "large abdomen and extra long two front legs".
But its a black spider, this time with white spots rather than solid red,
the question is ... now what do we do with it ? We personally dont want to keep it, But we also dont want to set it free into the wild nor kill it ?
Attachments
-
110.8 KB Views: 70
-
212.8 KB Views: 72