Black Widow with Brood

Ekaj

Found this lovely lady last night. Unfortunately her web is near where I brush my dogs so the picture is kind of spoiled, but I thought it was cool seeing her with all her babies. I have more photos that I will try to stack, but my photoshop trial is over

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful shot esp with the babies in focus as well
Brian V.

dlplumer

Very cool and interesting shot.

Giphsub

Cool shot! Looks similar to the Australian Red-back.

Skippy

Ekaj wrote:

Found this lovely lady last night. Unfortunately her web is near where I brush my dogs so the picture is kind of spoiled, but I thought it was cool seeing her with all her babies. I have more photos that I will try to stack, but my photoshop trial is over

As Giphsub said the Black Widow does look a lot like our Ozzie Red Back.
You did well to pick up so many of the babies in the shot Ekaj.

My garage is full of Red Backs at night, never used to bother me when I didn't have lights in there, but not that I have lights in the garage,
I think "good grief" never knew there were so many in there

Good Shot .... Skippy
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mmroden

This shot really reminds me of a game we played as kids-- when we found out that black widow spiders eat the males after sex, and that the kids were in danger too if the mother got hungry, we made a game called 'Black Widow'. The girls were always 'it', and they loved it

tlee

Great shot!

GOLDENORFE

great shot, well done.
will the little ones leave or stay together on the web?
phil
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