Beginner Gardening: black widow spiders, should i kill them?, 0 by plantfreak78

plantfreak78 wrote:
I am also not a spider killer. Most spiders inside the house get a free trip outside in a plastic cup. I used to allow black widows to live in my yard until I started finding them everywhere. I can find at least three per day while doing my normal gardening chores. I've also noticed a lot of spiders that are similar in shape to the black widow but not quite the right color or markings like the one I photographed below. So I searched the internet and found that I had even more black widows then I previously thought, it's just that they were males and juveniles! Now, it's sad to say, I dispose of any spider that is clearly a black widow. Wolf spiders, crab spiders and argiopes are still welcome :)

Non-characteristics black widow pics: http://www.kaweahoaks.com/html/latrodectus_hesoerus.html