#letrodectus spider

[mercerharlan]

Black widow spider in Atascadero, CA

October 2017

[mercerharlan]

Black widow spider in Atascadero, CA

October 2017

I had to post this spider because everyone was drunk (except me), it was well past midnight, our first week living in California, and one person wanted to take us thru this haunted house they really loved in the middle of nowhere. I drove us like 20-30min to this place, in the country, no sidewalks, no street lights, just one lane winding roads, a lot of them dirt. No people, no other traffic. We get in the front door, and right next to it, was the most perfect black widow I'd ever seen. Atascadero was overrun with them, but this one was really striking. We had to use a flashlight to get a good photo of it in the pitch black. Place was being lived in by squatters, but nobody was home when we came by. Widows come out at night, make their webs along the ground, and quickly cause an infestation...imagine spending the night in this house, lying in your sleeping bag or trash mattress on the floor, and being covered in black widows...