Widdle widows revisited.......

[DragonsEye]

Well the two widow slings have gotten a bit larger. Quite an attractive pattern at this stage, IMO .......

 

[Acro]

Gorgeous!
How many species do you keep?

 

[Dragoness]

wow, the pattern is nice indeed. Which species is it?

 

[NemJones]

Stunning. Ive never seen that before

 

[Zath]

Excellent! I thought I was the only crazy sonofa---- that kept widows in the house.

I'm assuming from your comment "at this stage", that the spider pictured is a juvenile? Very pretty compared to the drab mottled ones we have here.

 

[DragonsEye]

How many species do you keep?

Which species is it?

Excellent Q! I really don't know. I currently keep either one or two species. My older widow is L. mactans (Southern Black Widow). I think my two slings are also mactans but I won't know for certain until I see the gent who gave me the slings to ask him. Did have an L. bishopi (Red Widow) a couple years back but turned out to be a male and the gent I had gotten it from did not have any more (his died out). Bummed about that one. Quite a beauty it was. Unfortunately, bishopi is found only in a small area of Florida.

Do have False Black Widows (Steatoda grossa). If anyone desires slings of those, I got them to spare.

Excellent! I thought I was the only crazy sonofa---- that kept widows in the house.

I'm assuming from your comment "at this stage", that the spider pictured is a juvenile?

Yeah I get that reaction a lot, too.

Yep, just juvies. Be pretty sweet if they actually kept their current coloration into adulthood. If they are mactans, hopefully one will be male so I can breed my adult female. If they aren't mactans, hopefully I'll beat the odds and have one male and one female.