General Discussion & Chat: My shoe and the Black Widow spider, 0 by MiniSchnuz

MiniSchnuz wrote:
This morning, I was cleaning and put shoes on the shoes rack in the garage. Somehow, I picked my tennis shoe... put on rack then grabbed other one and noticed the dead spider right there in the shoe. So I thought.... there must be spider under shoe....this dead look like male spider.... so Glad I did not put my hand under... I decided to bring it outside and take carefully look under and There was Black Widow spider!!!! That nasty spider is gone already (killed).

Anyway, I was glad I didn't put my feet in the shoes as I was planned to put on few days ago somehow I decided to wear flip flop shoes. Whew. (The male spider dead after mated the female. The female killed the mate instanly! That's why it called The Black Widow spider.)

So far this month, we killed over 5 black widow spiders around house. Scary!