It was real, it was crawling, it was in my HOUSE!
It is without a doubt the largest Black Widow I have ever seen.
Training it was the hard part. I failed. I had to keep coaching it with a pair of tweezers. Once, it's silk web stuck to the tweezers, and when I pulled the tweezers away, the spider came with it! I nearly had a heart attack, thinking it was attacking me!
For what it's worth, the spider is a lot flatter now!
Yeah, but you have to make it look smaller than it really is. ;-)
Wasn't sure where this was going. New Challenge - now I got it.
:)
Nah, using the same kind of spider would be redundant. What you need now is a Brown Recluse -- that way you will have used both of the spiders in the US that can be considered truly dangerous to man.
Anybdy wants either of those two (black widow or brown recluse) I will go under my house into the crawlspace a grab a few for ya (better hurry before I throw in the "Death Can"). They don't bother me much...when I know that is what it is, but when ya get one on the back of your neck...let's just say it is hard to jump very high while on your knees in a 2 foot high crawlspace. I have lots of experience "playing" with these guys (and snakes) while doing landscaping.
