BW Capital of the world

[boneaddict]

I heard somewhere that Yakima county was the Black Widow capital of the world.  I believe them....

[boneaddict]

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[nwwanderer]

No shortage here but the biggest I have seen are in Las Cruces, NM.  I'll try for a picture next time we make it down there.

[Alchase]

Nice pics Bone!

Where is the action shot?
LOL

[Bean Counter]

Before... And after

That is all. Thank you.

[Pygmy]

I caught this one in cali...

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[PolarBear]

Nasty little boogers!

[b23]

My mom found one on an outdoor table in my parents back yard and put it in a fruit jar.  I'm not sure why she just didn't squish it on site, none the less, she showed it to me when I got home.  There was a bottle of bleach on the counter and being young and no fan of spiders, especially BW, I thought Hmmm, bleach, BW spider in jar, wonder what will happen if I mix the two.  So I filled the fruit jar about 1/3 the way with bleach.  In a matter of seconds it bleached that BW into this weird almost translucent color.  I think BW are creepy as hell looking anyway but an albino BW was even more creepy.  A few seconds longer and that BW just disintegrated into nothing.  And they live in Yakima County.

[7mmfan]

I only saw a few when I lived in E-Burg, but coming from the west side I had never been exposed to them. One fall evening as it was starting to get cold outside I killed 4 that were on the move around the outside of the house. Had never seen one before and only saw one more afterward. Creepy, gangly looking suckers.

[NRA4LIFE]

OK, that does it for me.  I am never going there again.

[LDennis24]

There are quite a few around Rock Lake south to Benge in the scab rock too. When i was splicing fiber in Ewan we would have to go into the C.O. and turn phones online again and a HUGE one lived in the battery storage area and i would feed it the cold yellow jackets from a nest by the door outside during the winter! Most I have ever seen was in Hell's Canyon hiking one year and I carried a dark maroon pack with black on it. For some reason only on my pack, every morning when I woke I would have to brush off about 2-3 black widows before putting my pack on! I'm feeling jittery now just thinking about it! Every tickle would make you freak out!

[7mmfan]

Camping down on the Klickitat this last weekend we had 2 end up in our tent. First time I've ever run into them while out camping.