Widow-wail

... of the more familiar sorts. I live in south-east Michigan, so I first checked for the truly dangerous suspects, but he is definitely not a black widow and was almost black, the totally wrong color for a brown recluse or hobo spider. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3442/3700380173_1ac9d819a6.jpg?v=0 ...

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Well, I have found through another web search that it is a Black Widow. The reason there are red dots on it's back instead of a red hourglass on it's belly is because accoring to a post on bugguide.net "In case you were wondering, or for anyone finding ...

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I didn't see the belly of it, but I thought that black widows typically had the 'hourglass' shape on the underside. True, But black widow is the closest I could seem to find to that red on the glossy black...

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The red markings on it seems to remind me of a Black Widow, but I may be wrong...

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lol, with insects it is all about producing a lot of offspring. You've heard about black widow and praying mantis also, right? Well... those females are only going to live long enough to lay a couple of egg sacs. By giving the females more nutrition than males, it is ...

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