Both spiders are extremely rare in northern Indiana where I used to live. I
lived there for 30 years and never once saw either a Black widow or a Brown
Recluse. I have seen a number of black widows in Santa Fe along with some
enourmous centipedes! The only thing dangerous that anyone sees around there
are rattlesnakes, although the species there is endangered and quite rare
too. My granfather's little grey cat has killed two of them, however, so
maybe rattlers aren't as rare as people say they are. I don't know anyone
who has ever seen one of the poisonous spiders up there.
--
Chris Crawford
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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On 9/4/07 5:33 AM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just tell him to go find a black widow in his own back yard. The
> Northern Black Widow, Latrodectus variolus can be found in Indiana along
> with the Brown Recluse, a potentially even more exciting find.
> <http://www.venombyte.com/venom/spiders/venomous_spiders_by_state.asp>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Those bug photos are cool. How do you get so close? The only bugs I have
>> ever been able to photograph up close have been butterflies...they don't
>> seem as skittish around people as spiders, bees, and grasshoppers. There's a
>> Black Widow Spider who has taken up residence in my girlfriend's backyard
>> storage shed. She wants it killed. I want to take a photo of it to sjow my
>> son, he thinks spiders are cool. He's in Indiana on the other side of the
>> country from me and he missed the black widow when he spent part of the
>> summer with me...she moved in about a week after he went home :(
>>
>>
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