Here's the closeup of the black widow, MGM

wow excellent photo

WOAH, you did get a better pic. wow. Yeah, look at that shiny little hourglass.

Was he in your garden? Scarey

Yikes... are Black Widows common where you are?!

These guys are hiding all over outside, in this area. Only found one in the house though, yikes!

it's odd though. Spiders don't scare me when I know what typr it was. Though, today I found a spider and it scared the hell out of me, I didn't know what it was, I never saw it before. I grabbed my camera (I don't go anywhere without it) and the batteries were dead. :-(

Thanks Irish :) Gotta keep some backups MGM. Rechargables are the way to go, for sure.

Send her to me please lol. Love this pic. Has she lost some legs and parts of others, or is that just the angle.

Any chance of sending me an egg case

Guybinn- No she intact, just the angle. You're not joking are you? I'm not sure that I'm brave enough to steal her egg case!!!

ACTUALLY, play close attention to her around high noon. She normally doesn't like to move around at the high times. You may be able to steal her egg case, if you can get with in a foot of it with out her noticing. LoL good Luck.

Excellent photo !!