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Thread #103787   Message #2123746
Posted By: Dave'sWife
11-Aug-07 - 12:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where can I get tarantula venom?
Subject: RE: BS: Where can I get tarantula venom?
SRS - what three webbing spiders do you have that you feed?

I had a sort of pet black widow once. Here in Southern CA, it is not uncommon for people to have semi-outdoor laundry rooms. When I lived in the Hollywood Hills, we had a laundry room attached the garage that had 3 walls and aroof but was really just off our back balcony. One day I notcied a feamle black widow had spun a web next to the dryer. I thought it was neat and left her there can named her Matilida.

A few days later, a woman I knew at work was bit by a desert spider in Tehachapi and she developed a horrible necrotic wound notunlike that of a brown recluse. now, we aren't sdupposed to have any of those out here, not even in the desert but it got me thinking about Matilda so i called Poison control who advised me to kill her before she had thousands of babies. Their concern was how close she was to the house and that she was in an area I often walked into barefoot.

So, i go to smash Matilida and discover she was GONE! She must have felt her spidey sense tingling and beat it outta there fast. I worried she might hold against me and stalk me but she never came back. Ah well. She was very pretty.