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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Oct 18, 2008 - 02:47am PT
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Nah Roxy, the gal I'm with is MUCH hotter and MUCH more wholesome that that one in the pic. And she does not bite.
OOPS, I guess I made a grammatical boo-boo there! I SHOULD have said I've gotten laid BY A HUMAN FEMALE and bitten by a spider more than once, but not simultaneously, etc., etc., LOL.
DOn'tcha just love the little vagaries of language?
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 18, 2008 - 05:17am PT
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Rokjox,
I think that's the closely related Red-backed Spider from Down-Under.
Nefarius,
Gotta correct you on one point. The look and color of the juvs depends on the sex, and they look quite different from the early instars. What you've described sounds like a male, pretty much regardless of age. The females turn black pretty early on, but they also have these red/orange racing stripes bordered in yellow or cream. The hourglass is also bordered by cream. They're quite flashy. At least that's my experience with Western Black Widows. I just saw a sub-adult female Wed. morning, out in the sagebrush north of Reno. Scooped it up for my Ecology students to see. Here's a big adult female munching on a Mormon cricket from a few years ago.
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Jim E
climber
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Oct 18, 2008 - 09:20am PT
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Oct 18, 2008 - 02:38pm PT
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How could you tell the religion of the cricket?
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knudeNoggin
climber
Falls Church, VA
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Oct 18, 2008 - 11:54pm PT
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To answer the OP,
YES, there are other spiders of the same sort as a Black Widow
(i.e., that hang upside-down in webs, relatively small, with
small jaws) that could be mistaken for them, esp. by someone
unfamiliar with spiders.
*kN*
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 19, 2008 - 12:13am PT
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"How could you tell the religion of the cricket?"
Doesn't it depend on what preys on it?
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