Can you sell black widows

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Joined Sep 1, Messages 1, Yes I have tons of these beautiful critters available to me because I live in a desert region of Canada. I have enough of my own to sate my needs so I wondered if anybody in Canada would be interested in buying one or two widows if they live in areas that dont have them. THey wont be costly at all.

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All of the spiders in the Latrodectus genus have a few things in common: curved feet covered in bristles, earning them the name comb-footed spiders, and messy, irregular nests of silk called tangle webs.

Western black widows take two different strategies to build their webs depending on how well-fed they are: starving spiders build more sticky threads, which snag prey, and healthy spiders invest more time in supporting threads, which may stop them from overeating.

The spiders rely on strands of silk in their tangle webs as extensions of their own senses. Thousands of organs called slit sensilla, which look like cracks in the exoskeleton and are especially common on their leg joints, feel vibrations in the silk.

By changing its posture, a spider changes the shape of the slit sensilla, so a black widow can tune its senses to certain frequencies of vibrations coming down its web. The insects hunted by black widows want to avoid falling into their jaws. So as the black widows evolved, they needed to strike a balance between hiding from prey and warning predators off.

Colorado College spider researcher Nicholas Brandley conducted experiments with 3D-printed widows showed that bright red spots protected the fake spiders from bird attacks, he told Smithsonian magazine in Unadorned plastic spiders were attacked three times more often than the red-spotted ones. In another experiment, a live black widow with many red spots tended to build its web higher up in terrariums than its less-colorful counterpart.

The extra spots may give it more protection from predators up high and lurking below. Black widows are most common in the warm environments of the southern and southwestern United States.

Instead, black widows find a protected area and go into a dormant state called overwintering. In spring, they emerge, and the tricky business of mating begins. Black widows are rare at the northernmost stretches of their range, but climate change may soon change that. Northern black widows today live about 31 miles further into Canada than they did in the s.

Theresa Machemer is a freelance writer based in Washington DC. Her work has also appeared in National Geographic and SciShow.