New widow spider fact sheet

[Code Monkey]

Tooting my own horn here, just got this officially published:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/entomology/444-422/444-422.html

download the pdf version for a much better look at the photos from the generous contributors of John Bellini (Kugellager) & Jason Diltz (latrodectusfan)

[El Johano]

A very good article (and good photos), there is a lot of misunderstandings and myths about those interesting spiders (especially on the net...). More reliable sources like this one is definitely needed.

BTW do you know where I can find a key to the north american species?

[Brian S]

Hats off to ya. ;)
That is very good I must say. Looks like alot of research has gone into this :)

[galeogirl]

Congrats, Code Monkey, it looks great. I'll give it a more thorough reading tonight when I'm not on the clock.

[Tony]

Very Cool :clap: :worship:

But, dead link?
http://www.arachnimania.com/
I noticed the spelling, is it arachnOmania?
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[JPD]

Chip.
Great work. I wondered what the status was of your work. Your's is so much better than the previous one.
Thanks for sharing it.

[Elizabeth]

Thanks a lot! It's great! (Although I did have a silly picture in my mind of some scared person vacuuming up widow, web, egg sacs, and throwing the vacuum bag straight outside the door, willy-nilly into the bushes, as opposed to into an outside trash receptacle!)

[Code Monkey]

Thanks a lot! It's great! (Although I did have a silly picture in my mind of some scared person vacuuming up widow, web, egg sacs, and throwing the vacuum bag straight outside the door, willy-nilly into the bushes, as opposed to into an outside trash receptacle!)You know, I had the same thought when I read the wording in that sentence. That little turn of the English language was the PhD's contribution ;) - she added that after I was done writing the main paper. However, since she's got the doctorate and I'm the grunt, we get odd wording :)

[Elizabeth]

Yeah, well it may give some spiders one last chance, I suppose! That would be fine with me.