Small Black Widow in my house!!!!

Eeeeeee! Don't know how you can stand these, they would scare me to death! I'm not even fond of the 'friendly' spiders...

I do not like them. The are quite venomous. They are hard to kill with spray. I don't want to squish it with my shoe... It might get me!! I may escort it out with a broom. It's near the front door. I alerted Jeff to it's presence...but I guess that was too subtle.

great photo

Get that out of your house...NOW!...Those things may not kill the average person but they will cause you nuerological problems for months...Children, the elderly and those with severe venom allergies can be seriously compromised to the point of death...Tasteyg...Take care...

PS...I gave you a "like" because it looks a lot "like" the picture of a black widow I put on GoY! It's not because I "like" the subject...

LOL. Sorry Skippy, I know you weren't being funny, but that made me laugh, laugh, laugh. We don't have any children or elderly here and it in a place that we don't frequent, as we use the back door to go in and out. I will get rid of it though. Thanks for your concern :) This is a cropped photo, I didn't want to get too close to it.
Thanks Irish :)

Spooky, and a clear up of the little shiny blackie I see around here. Not a black widow. I hope its long gone!

I have many of these spiders around the house...I generally leave them alone.
They eat a lot of the other bad bugs. I just have to be careful, not put my hands accidentally where they are or I may get bitten. I have a large Black Widow under my plant stand in the back yard...it is a beautiful spider!

We have the Brown widow spider here also...it somehow got introduced into San Diego from South America about 6 years ago. It is even more of a recluse than the Black widow spider and not aggressive. One still had to be careful around Birds of Paradise (where they love to live) because the Brown widow's venom is twice as potent as the Black widow.

Delonix1- After reading what you wrote about the brown widows living in the in the Birds of Paradise, I got the creeps... To get the recent pics of the Birds of Paradise, I had to creep under a chayote vine that was right next to the BoP. My head was in the vine and I kept thinking 'spiders please don't crawl on me!!!' I don't know if we have brown widows, but if we did they'd probably be living where I was...yikes!

I know the Brown widows so far only lives in climates that are tropical or subtropical (they're indigenous to the deep tropics of S. America)...however, you never know, insects have a way of adapting...From what I've read they rarely ever bite anyone...in fact I haven't read or heard of any reported bites from this spider.(not saying it has never happened though)

Thanks for the 411 Delonix1 :)