is keeping black widows illegal in oregon?

[obsidiantrove]

so i live in oregon and i keep black widows as pets. i’ve gotten all of them from people that were going to kill them, but they gave them to me instead. i started posting feeding videos of them and ive gotten a few comments saying that they are illegal. i’ve never heard this before and ive tried looking up black widow keeping legality in oregon, but i cant find anything. is what im doing illegal? how do i figure this out?

 

[fcat]

A good place to start may be fish & game. It may boil down to where the specimens were collected...usually any sort of federal or state land is off limits regardless of the type of animal.

 

[viper69]

don’t rely on others to know the law for you, when it affects you. Def check Fish and Wildlife, and local ordinances.

Most people do NOT do this, and the Earth is still spinning

 

[MorbidArachnid]

Unfortunately they're right, Oregon has a white list system for invertebrates so anything not on the list needs a permit to be kept.

https://oregon.public.law/rules/oar_603-052-1320

Here's a link to the specific law.

https://www.oregon.gov/oda/Documents/Publications/IPPM/OregonApprovedInvertebrateList.pdf

And here is the PDF that has the list in a more readable form. Now, I would never encourage people to break the law and according to this document if you have any invertebrate not listed on here you need a permit to be able to keep it.



For example, all Cubaris and Porcellio Sp isopods are not on the list, all scorpions that are not Emperor scorpions (including Oregon native scorpions and the Heterometrus that are sold at every commercial pet seller in Oregon), and most tarantulas and true spiders (again including Oregon natives and widely sold species such as all Tliltocatl and most of the Brachypelmas that arent B. Smithi). So if you have any of those species that aren't on this list just know that you should have a permit for them!


Also here's the front matter of that law for the people that are allergic to links, also note that it says this only applies to stock collected within the continental US so even if you have an invert on this list it only applies to US caught (or presumably those CB within the US) and not wild caught individuals that were imported from the rest of NA or overseas. Also just to point out legally you can release non native animals into Oregon if they're on the list.