Black Widow Appreciation Thread

[NoS]

What type of containers do you guys keep the Widows in?

 

[Kugellager]

1 quart glass mayonnaise jars with hols drilled in the lids. Add a few twigs and and some dirt and you have an excellent escape-proof widow enclosure.

John
];')

 

[Steven]

d*mn, i must be blind :8o

i've just started a new tread on widow-set-ups, sorry

 

[Wade]

Generally speaking, widow bites are unlikley unless the spider's mouthparts are pressed into the skin. Usually this happens when a person is working outside in a widow friendly habitat, like clearing brush, moving firewood, working in the crawlspace under a house, etc. The spider gets dislodged from it's web and ends up in the persons cloths, and gets pinched in an armpit or in a spot where the clothing binds to the skin.

A widow walking on your hands is unlikley to bite and may not even be able to. I stop short of recomending it, however, since there's no need to do it and there's always the off chance the spider could get a bite in somehow.

Wade

 

[death1]

Containers for widows...

Here is what I learned. Pint size Chinese soup containers! Paperclip to poke "SMALL!!" holes in the case of hatches. Now, they are pretty delicate one fall can kill. So some soft moisture retaining peat. I usally put in an inch or more in the enclosures. Then a few maple sticks. If they mold or rot replace them. I keep L. Geometricus so I keep them at about 65%. Temperature for them(L. Geometricus) is crucial. 65F will eventually kill them. 70F-85F is good.