I just caught i black widow... ?

Question

ok its like almost 2 in the morning right now in the desert of california and i walked outside and seen the fatest black widow i've seen for awhile.. so i caught it with a pickle jar and a fly swatter and now its going crazy trying to get out of the pickle jar probly because the pickle jar still smells like pickles lol

anyways i want to keep this thing alive and feed it crickets and flys and stuff but dont know if i should take it out of this pickle jar because i just threw in a cricket and its paying no attention to it.. i just want to see how fat i can get it.. and im not being cruel i love black widows im fasinated by them.. but i do kill rattlesnakes when they come up to my house so you can get all peta on me about that if you want.. but i dont care i have a younger sister and a mom to look after and i live out in the middle of the mojave desert

so the question i really want to know is will this black widow survive in this pickle jar? i have holes poked in the top for air

Answer 1

I caught a black widow once and fed it a cricket.  The next day, the cricket was there and the spider wasn't.  It was a big black cricket (don't know what kind) but it liked the spider apparently.

Answer 2

Leave it alone , Man !!

Release it somewhere far.

Just like you are concerned about your family, you should be concerned about creatures around because they too play an important role in environment.

If you are really fascinated by it then you will let it go. The spider doesn't belong in the jar it belongs to nature.

And it will not survive much given the fact that jar is not it's natural habitat especially since it has the pickle smell.

Answer 3

You can probably keep it alive. I would try to transfer it to something bigger than a pickle jar though. Give it room to move, things to crawl on, etc.

Careful not to get bitten!

Also, get some pictures!

-Edit- Just upload the pictures to some website (like photobucket or flickr) and find the link. Copy that link and paste it in an edit in your post. don't try to embed it, YA doesn't allow html.

Answer 4

You don't want to open the Jar , my advice go and see some pro Help , you know Spiders Prof , any 1 could Control em'

Answer 5

it won't survive very long in a pickle jar.  Just release it out in the woods.

Answer 6

WOWWWW, i hate spiders!!! but...

can you take pictures of it??

Answer 7

Most people would squash it so keeping it for study is not like you are testing lipstick on the eyes of a bunny.  You do need to meet all the spiders needs.  The most important to black widows is shelter.  Wasps love black widows.  The first one I every captured was seen by a small wasp that went to it immediately and killed it.  So put something in there that the spider can hide under during the day.  It will come out after dark.  Even just some leaves or paper will work.  Also keep live insects in there for food.  You will not be able to tell when they have finished with them as they drink them from the inside and leave them empty.  If the abdomen starts to shrink it is starving.  If it will not eat in captivity you should release it.  You can keep it for a long time if you get it to feed.  When it forms a white ball in the web it is an egg sac and you do not want to keep it around after than.  The young are nearly invisible and small enough to get out through any air holes you have.  I don't know the time between construction of the egg sac and the young emerging.  In captivity the mother may consume her own young.