In addition to Praise, we also have a male black widow along with some other kind of spiny guy (probably a European Cross Spider) in a jar, plus a hornet that I shot with peppermint spray :-) He's dead now though. Mint is a neurotoxin, but it took him nearly 24 hours to finally die.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Regular Biology Class...
How many of you have seen a praying mantis molt? Me neither! But Praise did! The pics aren't very good, but you can kind of see the skin hanging from a branch in the first one, and his wings unfurled (drying off?) in the second one. It's amazing to me that even their legs molt!

Gives me the creepy crawlys all over! But we've been learning all kinds of facts about praying mantis'... and watching "vs." videos on Youtube :-)
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So you figured out the spider was a male black widow? mom
I think it's a safe bet. The pictures of the male black widow and the brown widows look almost exactly the same- but brown widoes aren't supposed to live here. They are an eastern US spider.
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