What is this?!

[summoner12]

It is a female... there was a large egg sack in the shoebox with her....

sorry to the spider fans.... she got flushed.... now I need to do the same with the egg sack so it doesn't unleash hundreds of babies!

I think I got bit by this or another similar spider one night. I had a welt where the bite was, it scrabbed and the muscles in my arm felt really weird for a few days... I wanna say the pain almost lasted a week. the bite was between my elbow and armpit on the underside of my arm, where the skin is soft, it hurt.

 

[PrettyInInk87]

It is a female... there was a large egg sack in the shoebox with her....

sorry to the spider fans.... she got flushed.... now I need to do the same with the egg sack so it doesn't unleash hundreds of babies!

I think I got bit by this or another similar spider one night. I had a welt where the bite was, it scrabbed and the muscles in my arm felt really weird for a few days... I wanna say the pain almost lasted a week. the bite was between my elbow and armpit on the underside of my arm, where the skin is soft, it hurt.

Awww... poor spidey.

 

[ChamOh]

kill that thing before it multiplies. preferably with some sort of flame.

 

[pssh]

Flame? That sounds like a very awful way to die... A shoe smash is the most humane.

 

[Julirs]

You know what? I want people to quit posting pictures and theads about spiders. I want to "live in the dark" about the fact that there is more than one widow in my house. I want to pretend they are not multiplying despite the hatchlings I find dangling from my lampshades. I want to pretend the many varieties of spiders within feet or inches of me right now are not fat and happy on my escaped feeder population.

 

[getwitit]

I can see all these spider-haters cheering for their chams when they attack your feeder roaches and things haha. Come on, it was a beauty!

I've seen some species of "false widows" a lot as a kid in my backyard in socal but I did not know about the Brown Widow until now. I'm wondering now if I have ever seen a Brown Widow! This one clearly was not a Black Widow and was most likely a Brown Widow or quite a preggo false widow. Brown widows are in the same genus of Black Widows but do not have the bite penetration nor the injection amount to be very harmful to humans(except in your case). It would be quite possible that your bite was from your little shoebox friend Gosh I love insects

 

[Vegas Chad]

I see one of them things it gets to feel my size 13 foot... It could have been voted the nicest spider in its class. Dont really care! ! !

 

[dondeb562]

yeah kevin sounds kinda like my symptoms when i get bit. i have been bitten several times by hatchlings... i get a minor red bump some times i dont even notice the bite, but the muscle pain sucks. its like an annoying ache all up and down the arm, and yes several days to a week. i read sypmtoms from a bite could be nothing to similar to a widow bite and in some cases are treated the same way. wonder if the sack already hatched! eek!! dont tell your gf lol check in between ypur cages, under stove,fridge....i have found those things in between papers on my desk, in boxes and bags stored. YUCK. I get the creepy crawly feeling just thinking about them... thank goodness i havent seen any in a while (till u posted this WONDERFUL CLOSE UP shot!! lol) i think the ONLY good thing about them is they eat widows!!

 

[summoner12]

You know what? I want people to quit posting pictures and theads about spiders. I want to "live in the dark" about the fact that there is more than one widow in my house. I want to pretend they are not multiplying despite the hatchlings I find dangling from my lampshades. I want to pretend the many varieties of spiders within feet or inches of me right now are not fat and happy on my escaped feeder population.

 

[jdog1027]

Kinyonga is definitely an asset to this forum. She is ultimate when it comes to posting interesting informative literature. I live in south central Alabama and just started renting a house in '08. As soon as we moved in, I kept finding these same spiders all over the place. I thought they looked like Black widows by just their body structure, but the color was throwing me off. I found that there was actually a Brown widow and this was what I was finding. From what I've read, they're not to be messed with. I actually have found a baby Green anole in ones web being sucked dry. Summoner, you said you found an egg sack-did it look like a 'spiny ball'??? Black widows have an egg sack that looks like a small cottonball- Brown widow like a spiny ball. They are apparently showing up across the country hitching rides in lawn furniture and such.
Sucking baby green anole

Spiny egg sack

 

[Eltortu]

Ha!.......

 

[dondeb562]

we do have brown widows here. i have seen many in the yard along w there egg sacks. what kevin found was not one of those. im sure the sack he found was a nice little round white cotton ball looking sack. i do believe they get in the house from the plants in the cages as we never had seen them before in the house till we had chameleons.

 

[Jimturner]

odd fact I read some where... you are never more than 10 feet away from a SPIDER ... ever.......

 

[Julirs]

Jim at ChamCo showed me my first black widow ever around his cages. It's funny-as with everything once somone points one out to you, you see them alot more! He told me the easiest way to find them is to look for their "messy" webs. They really do just spin a clump of threads with no real pattern. The web is also very thick and unusually strong.
As for coming in on the plants, that is exactly what happened to me. I have a few chams I leave out for most of the year, but when it became cold, I brought that cage in without going through it first. In the spring I noticed my male Veiled clinging to the corner looking scared about something. On closer investigation there was a widow egg sack spewing millions of babies that were crawling to the top of the cage. Talk about creepy! I must have vacummed that cage and baby spiders and the room for hours after that. When I took the 4 plus foot ficus out of the cage I found big black mama spider-she was huge and well fed.
If you want to find spiders in your cages, get a flashlight, get up in the middle of the night, and start shining the light into the cages with vacuum in hand!

 

[Miss Lily]

Ugh! Luckily we don't get such evil spiders in the UK - I would probably move if we did! Tommy does have a tiny spider or two that live in his cage. I only see evidence when I mist his cage as it makes the little threads of web look very pretty!

Glad to hear that the nasty spid got flushed! I wouldn't want it or it's egg sac in my house either!