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Black Widow Spider

Latrodectus mactans

Description:

While watering the spray hit the house and the ground. It scared a roach out from a plant and brought out this Black Widow from behind the house siding. I grabbed my camera and watched as she took the roach from the ground, wrapped and then reeled it up and under the siding out of sight with in a few minutes.

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5 Comments

redyellgrn99
redyellgrn99 11 years ago

How did you get such a close-up shot to such danger? Macro lens?

Arun
Arun 11 years ago

Well captured .. nice series !!

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

nice series!

ceherzog
ceherzog 11 years ago

Super observations!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

Torrey , I found something a little similar.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/127...

TorreyNeel
Spotted by
TorreyNeel

San Diego, California, USA

Spotted on Aug 25, 2012
Submitted on Aug 26, 2012

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