Southern Black Widow (♀ Latrodectus mactans)
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Southern Black Widow (♀ Latrodectus mactans)

I was delighted to find this black widow, as I haven't seen one in years and was beginning to worry that the invasive brown widows had completely displaced the native black widows in my area. (After taking this photo, I fed her a small dubia roach.)
I remember being able to find 1 under each playground cinderblock 26+ years ago. Only found one in the past 6 years. Brother took some stock photo shots of it, then she went back. We need a campaign to inform people that they are important. I love orb weavers and all but having just weavers and that's it? bleh.
 

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Other Spiders
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Device
Canon Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
Aperture
ƒ/5
Focal length
19.6 mm
Exposure time
1/60
ISO
640
Flash
On, fired
Filename
Latrodectus mactans-2021-05.jpg
File size
895.3 KB
Date taken
Fri, 09 April 2021 8:27 PM
Dimensions
1188px x 1188px

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