How is this news.
Are they rare in Michigan?
I am in NC foothills. I can find 10 black widows in my house at any given time. I could go underneath the house and see one within 5 seconds.
Grapes country of origin please.....looks like they left it out. Can you say Mexico??
“”Are they rare in Michigan?””
My first thought! A 911 call for a black widow spider? Come on! If they are that stupid, I’m surprised they knew enough to identify it as such. Have seen many and killed many.
Tennessee here. We see black widow spiders here in the rural area where we live - also coyotes, bobcats, hoot owls & all sorts of other things.
I hardly ever see a black widow around my home now, I think ag chemicals may have killed them along with the “redbugs” (chiggers) that I never see now. I was born in ‘44 and raised about fifty miles from here and we saw black widows all the time, it was dangerous to turn over a rock or a stick of wood. I had one uncle who was bitten on the scrotum while sitting on an outhouse seat and I know of one fellow who carried the nickname “Spider” and apparently got tagged with it because his father was lying in bed recovering from a bite when the boy was conceived. Those things can actually jump something like two or three feet which makes them even more dangerous. I have never seen one inside the house where I now live but we did find them inside when I was growing up. We found snakes inside on a couple of occasions also but fortunately not a venemous one.
Actually, black widow spiders are not uncommon in bunches of grapes.........the washing the stores and distributors do doesn’t always get them out. Nothing to freak out about.
Very common here in VA too.....look under anything in the woods where it’s dark............
They're very common here in the Kali desert....these people are using the wrong stuff; "Demon" (a powder to mix with water) offs 'em within seconds....and a direct hit isn't necessary, as is the case with the likes of Raid.