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Black widow (right) chilling with a camel cricket (left)
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- Submitted: Aug 25, 2019
- Photographed: Aug 25, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Not a very good picture, but the sight of these two hanging out side by side was just too good not to share.
Let us know if the friendship lasts or if lunch is on someone. They might both have ideas of stealing food from the other. My House Centipedes keep eyes on the spiders, waiting for opportunities to steal from or eat the spiders.
Went to look this morning and the cricket is gone. The widow seems to be doing just fine, and there’s nothing in her web big enough to be the cricket. Looks like he left on his own. I think widows are pretty chill with big insects like camel crickets hanging out nearby. As a kid, I once kept a black widow and a cockroach as “pets” after my dad and I found them in the woodpile. They lived in the same box for something like two weeks and got along just fine. Released them in the end (I couldn’t clean… Read more »
Your Dad sounds like mine. He let me try to keep lots of things as pets, except wild birds or a snapping turtle. Peep frogs were really nice pets in a terrarium. I got to hear them make their peeping sounds whle I was falling asleep. I let all of the wild animals go after I got to study them for a while. That’s why I don’t mind people keeping wild spiders as pets, as long as the spider isn’t a threatened species. So, tarantulas are a bad idea since they tend to have been poached. I was raised “free… Read more »
My dad isn’t all that keen on my affinity for creepy-crawlies. He moreso just puts up with it. Mom’s the one who actually sympathizes with me on this. She had a pet tarantula growing up and when I was a kid she got us those butterfly kits where you raise a bunch of caterpillars to maturity.
That’s an unusual mom. Granted, my mom found a Monarch butterfly caterpillar when I was a kid and we raised and released it. She likes the Odonata insects, at least.
Check it out! New Latrodectus sp. with purple egg sacs! https://gizmodo.com/newly-discovered-widow-spider-lays-bright-purple-eggs-1840264174