I got this photo in a text; this is my son's front porch. I thought, that must have been some wind. WRONG!
The message said, Mom, everynight, my really old neighbor comes over and we sit on the porch in these two chairs. I am home waiting on the AC repair man to come, AC not cooling, this is 3rd time here. I decided to clean the chairs on the porch. The chair I sit in every night has a spider nest in it and this is a brown widow that I found. They are all dead now, and I sprayed with insecticide.
Brown Widows are dangerous. The habitat of the brown widow spider has expanded to much of the southwestern U.S. and appears to be growing. Keep your eyes peeled if you live in that region. You can't get much further southwestern U.S. as Florida...
the brown widow is 1st cousin to the black widow. The females are dangerous. the males, the babies and the juveniles will not bite. we have no idea which this one is, He said there were maybe 2 dozen in the nest, but I think, since he is a chip off his mother, ME, he fears them all and may have exaggerated a tad.
Now I am afraid to go in the garage to get the clothes out of the dryer.....
