Black Widow Tragedy

JacenBeers · 09-01-2002, 07:13 AM

I live in a warm part of Western Canada where black widows are very common. I kept one in a jar for about 5 months and it grew quite large, moulting a few times. She ate about 3 crickets a week. She was very fast and vewry aggressive and she was fat. I didnt want to clean her jar because i wasnt very down with getting bit so i let the bodies gather on the bottom. They sat there and got pretty pettrified. One day she went to the bottom to snatch up a new morsel when her fat abdomen struck the back leg of a discarded grasshopper and she burst and died. I was sad.

johns · 09-01-2002, 10:30 AM

Hi, Jacen-

Losing one of my inverts is always hard, I think.

Alex S. · 09-01-2002, 03:02 PM

Really sorry to hear about that...

Im always very sad when Latrodectus die, they are such incredible and beautiful spiders.

Alex S.

JacenBeers · 09-01-2002, 04:21 PM

I can get another one quite easily because they are easy to find in this area if you know where to look. I wish they babies were not so small so that i could breed them because the males and females are strikingly different yerboth are easy to get.

sabre · 09-13-2002, 01:18 AM

JacenBeers -

where do you look to find them? i'm down by vancouver, i've never seen a black widow, and i spend a lot of time outdoors. i'd love to have one but it seems i'm at the point where i'd have to buy one, or i could go drive for a few hours to kamloops...

JacenBeers · 09-13-2002, 01:32 AM

You wont find them in Vancouver. It is too moist and the weather is too cold there in the summer time. Kamloops has lots. If you ever want one I can try and get one and send it to you.

The_Phantom · 09-25-2002, 12:12 AM

Sorry for the loss of your little widow

I had a hobo spider in a jar once and my cat knocked it over and the spider got a puncture and it cleaned the wound but died 2 days later as a result. I was very angry at my cat, and sad too. I burried the little spider out in the garden so that it would be recycled.

09-01-2002, 07:13 AM	#1
JacenBeers Arachnoprince Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Calgary AB, Canada Posts: 1,266	Black Widow Tragedy I live in a warm part of Western Canada where black widows are very common. I kept one in a jar for about 5 months and it grew quite large, moulting a few times. She ate about 3 crickets a week. She was very fast and vewry aggressive and she was fat. I didnt want to clean her jar because i wasnt very down with getting bit so i let the bodies gather on the bottom. They sat there and got pretty pettrified. One day she went to the bottom to snatch up a new morsel when her fat abdomen struck the back leg of a discarded grasshopper and she burst and died. I was sad.

09-01-2002, 10:30 AM	#2
johns Arachnoknight Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: inman, sc Posts: 293 My Mood:	Hi, Jacen- Losing one of my inverts is always hard, I think. __________________ "i don't hate playas, i don't hate the game, i'm just the shot clock above the game". sunshine... mos def

09-01-2002, 03:02 PM	#3
Alex S. Arachnolord Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 646	:( Really sorry to hear about that... Im always very sad when Latrodectus die, they are such incredible and beautiful spiders. Alex S.

09-25-2002, 12:12 AM	#7
The_Phantom Scarlet O' Hairy Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Surrey, BC, home of the worst gang violence per capita, on the planet! Woo! Posts: 1,054 My Mood:	Sorry for the loss of your little widow I had a hobo spider in a jar once and my cat knocked it over and the spider got a puncture and it cleaned the wound but died 2 days later as a result. I was very angry at my cat, and sad too. I burried the little spider out in the garden so that it would be recycled. __________________ Dimples Comic! RyanDan.com Food pets die for Im a girl.

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09-01-2002, 04:21 PM	#4
JacenBeers Arachnoprince Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Calgary AB, Canada Posts: 1,266	I can get another one quite easily because they are easy to find in this area if you know where to look. I wish they babies were not so small so that i could breed them because the males and females are strikingly different yerboth are easy to get.

09-13-2002, 01:18 AM	#5
sabre Arachnosquire Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: vancouver bc Posts: 57	JacenBeers - where do you look to find them? i'm down by vancouver, i've never seen a black widow, and i spend a lot of time outdoors. i'd love to have one but it seems i'm at the point where i'd have to buy one, or i could go drive for a few hours to kamloops...

09-13-2002, 01:32 AM	#6
JacenBeers Arachnoprince Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Calgary AB, Canada Posts: 1,266	You wont find them in Vancouver. It is too moist and the weather is too cold there in the summer time. Kamloops has lots. If you ever want one I can try and get one and send it to you.

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