Is this a Black Widow spider?

I found several black widows AND brown recluse spiders in my rented storage unit one day. The next time I went there, I came prepared for chemical warfare. Several cans of RAID helped "water down" the nooks and crannies with Arachnid Agent Orange. The herd was thinned down quite a bit. But I still wear gloves when moving boxes around.

As for the guy with the brown recluse nibble fest, Doctor Enzo has a bandaid.

 

Not sure what THAT is, but i know what THIS is...

THIS is an NNO Spider...

 

I agree, BW's usually have a shiney hard body. You may have a teddybear or violin back spider there. Wolf spider is known for damp climates.

Here is an idea, my emperor scorpion LOVED to eat widows, So I started a captive BW breeding program, got bit a lot, once by a gal that had an abdomen the size of a nickel. No big deal, she had 8 triangles on her too, more tris=more poison, luckily all the preservatives in the crap i eat prevented any infection. if all that gal had was an hourglass, lick her, she is relatively harmelss to anything but a fat grasshopper.

Scorpions love spiders, they are scorpion chow.
When the scorps overrun and completely whipe out the spiders, get gila monsters or monitor lizards, they love them crunchy on the outside gooety on the inside scorps.
They you get a bat, make boots out of fat lizards, buy new house, move...

 

I was just looking at what I saw, making a judgement based on that. I guess your eyes are better than your cam, so I back down.

 

Damnet,

well its bed time... bring on the nightmares!

 

this is a black widow, but she kills then mates

http://www.deviantart.com/view/9228836/

 

Spiders have become a huge problem in Georgia because of all the rain we've had. One of the techs in my shop reached up into the engine compartment of a truck he was working on and got 6 spider bites. His arm swelled up to twice its size and he was out of work for 7 days.

We also had a woman customer come in who was bitten by a brown recluse at work. She went to a doctor who told her not to worry. Boy, was that the wrong advice. She ended up losing half of her calf muscle and is in the process of suing her employer and the doctor.

When I lived in Michigan I never worried about spiders. I used to scare the kids by picking spiders up by a leg and dangling them over my open mouth. I've learned to respect the little buggers!!!

 

I was bitten by a brown recluse when I was about 14 years old. As Carreaper said, I never knew I was bitten until this "mosquito bite" kept getting worse and started turning brown and purple. Once it got as big as a half dollar, we went to the doctor.

They gave me some sort of shot, and the doctor told me there was about a 50% chance they would have to cut out the area, and a 50% chance it would heal.

I guess I was the lucky half, because eventually it healed without necessitating surgery-scooping.

 

I have read that if you shock the area around the recluse bite with a stun gun it will neutralize the venom.