Dont seem to have poison spiders here on Long Island. Supposed to be black widows here never saw one. I squish the house spiders to keep the wife happy. Cat gets the rest. Leave the outdoors ones be. Life is good.
I used to see a black widow here and there in eastern washington. I thought they were a desert spider.
Nope. I’m in very wooded and damp Kentucky now and I can just throw a blanket over our bench by our fire pit and come back in a couple of weeks and there will be two or three of them setting up camp under the blanket. I even saw one with a weird row of red dots instead of the hourglass. Turns out it was the equivalent of a “teenager”.
Interestingly, they are actually very pretty.