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Originally Posted by Utta
Wow Daveness, thanks for all the great pics!
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You're welcome. While I know some enjoy the critters I do some will be satisfied just seeing pics of them.
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Originally Posted by LauraB
Yep - but remember, even if your camera can't record it, you aren't missing it - you see it, you appreciate it; so many people don't even take the time to really see the "little" things right in their own backyard. All the photos I posted are from my own property - it's amazing what one can see if they just think "small"
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I'm always looking for the little things. Just the other day a friend of mine wanted to go walking in the metro parks and I was having fun showing him all kinds of things he never would have seen on his own. He was quick to pick up some things after knowing where to look though.
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Originally Posted by LauraB
Oh, lucky you! Can't wait to see the shots! Tucson was where I encountered my very first Black Widow - it was a lose/lose for both of us; I inadvertently stepped on her in my backyard shed; she bit me. I lived, she did not, LOL.
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I am so anxious to go I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas. To catch critters both by cup and by film.
My first black widow was when I lived in California. I had found it in my garage and set her up in a 10 gallon on top of my dresser. She lived, but most of her kids didn't. She laid an egg sac in the tank but I did not see it and one night I came home and turned on the light that was hanging a few feet over the tank and dresser and there was a tent of web from the tank to the light that the babies had made after easily crawling through the screen lid I had on the tank. Well unfortunately I didn't know then what I know now (the babies couldn't hurt me) and I broke out the shop vac.
After that I used to keep them in gatorade bottles (back when they were glass). I had half a dozen of them on my desk at work. I would take a wire hanger and bend it into w's (or m's) and when I put into the bottle it would expand and the black widow would make its web using the hanger. I would put the bottle upside down and since the black widow would go to the top it made it easy to clean since it would drop it's finished prey item.
I only have a few widows right now and I look forward to picking up some more on this trip.