[OneVike]

They are actually harmless. The movies gave them a bad reputation. I would be more worried about the black widows hiding out in the crawl spaces of everyone's home in California.

[rochester_veteran]

I would be more worried about the black widows hiding out in the crawl spaces of everyone's home in California.

When I was stationed at Vandenberg, a guy in my unit and I rented half of a duplex in Lompoc that was kind of a dump, but it was cheap and we didn't want to live in the barracks anymore. The place was loaded with black widow spiders! Then a migrant family moved into the other half of the duplex and there was probably 15 people that were living there, including their kids and it was 7x24 noise coming from their place, so we found another place and moved out after 3 weeks.

[katana]

Not something you'd ever do with a Black Widow or Brown Recluse. Saw one being fed by a friend who had it in an aquarium. Mouse at one end of the cage, tarantula at the other, then faster than the eye could see it was zap! and back with the mouse starting to convulse in seconds. Eight legs, four, or two, creatures have to eat.