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Ok Heather .....here ya go ! 
So with absolutely no poisons sprayed at the Cove’ comes with the hassles of the “critters†. In my case this one can be very painful if encountered and also one that is confused with another species. “The Brown Widowâ€
After putting the torts to bed , I usually wander the grounds for couple of hours with a high powered spot light catching these guys and ridding the egg sacks that might be present. This usually takes place the start of summer until the chill of winter. Collecting/trapping them by hand does actually make an efficient impact on the numbers encountered and helps maintain control with out my fears of interacting with any type of poisons at the Cove’.
Here is what their egg sacks look like ………….
Big Female guarding her egg sack …even while captured.
Brown widow
Latrodectus geometricus
Araneae: Theridiidae
The brown widow is suspected to have evolved in Africa although it was first described from South America, which adds confusion as to where it might have originated. The Brown Widow Spider is a cosmopolitan tropical and subtropical spider having established populations in Hawaii, Florida, some Caribbean Islands, parts of Australia, South Africa, Japan, and Cyprus. In North America, the Brown Widow Spider was restricted for many decades to the Florida peninsula. However, around the year 2000, it started showing up in other Gulf Coast states. Brown widows are now known from Texas to Georgia and South Carolina. As specimens were found in new locations in the southeastern United States, this species was simultaneously being collected with greater frequency in southern California. The first specimens were collected in Torrance in 2003. After that, the spider was found with greater frequency in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.
The main thing Homo sapiens will want to know about Latrodectus geometricus? Although it’s venomous, its bite isn’t as dangerous as that of the black widow.
http://cisr.ucr.edu/brown_widow_spider.html
JD~:shy:
So with absolutely no poisons sprayed at the Cove’ comes with the hassles of the “critters†. In my case this one can be very painful if encountered and also one that is confused with another species. “The Brown Widowâ€
After putting the torts to bed , I usually wander the grounds for couple of hours with a high powered spot light catching these guys and ridding the egg sacks that might be present. This usually takes place the start of summer until the chill of winter. Collecting/trapping them by hand does actually make an efficient impact on the numbers encountered and helps maintain control with out my fears of interacting with any type of poisons at the Cove’.
Here is what their egg sacks look like ………….
Big Female guarding her egg sack …even while captured.
Brown widow
Latrodectus geometricus
Araneae: Theridiidae
The brown widow is suspected to have evolved in Africa although it was first described from South America, which adds confusion as to where it might have originated. The Brown Widow Spider is a cosmopolitan tropical and subtropical spider having established populations in Hawaii, Florida, some Caribbean Islands, parts of Australia, South Africa, Japan, and Cyprus. In North America, the Brown Widow Spider was restricted for many decades to the Florida peninsula. However, around the year 2000, it started showing up in other Gulf Coast states. Brown widows are now known from Texas to Georgia and South Carolina. As specimens were found in new locations in the southeastern United States, this species was simultaneously being collected with greater frequency in southern California. The first specimens were collected in Torrance in 2003. After that, the spider was found with greater frequency in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.
The main thing Homo sapiens will want to know about Latrodectus geometricus? Although it’s venomous, its bite isn’t as dangerous as that of the black widow.
http://cisr.ucr.edu/brown_widow_spider.html
JD~:shy:
