Brown Widow spider on its web, scurrying away

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_geometricus

I have one of these in my porch... I decided to just let it be, let it catch the bugs that try to come in through the porch. I don't really use that back door anyway, and the porch is pretty much my greenhouse for the avocado trees and plants that I'm growing. Free pest control :-)

The spider was feasting on a bug it caught when I went out to check on my plants today and get some basil. I must have triggered one of its web strands when I was getting ready to take some pics and this video, as it freaked out and hid in its "house." I daringly poked the top of its web "house" to make it drop back into its web. Then, while filming, I poked one of the web strands to make it run back into its "house."

You can see it has two egg sacs at the end of this video.

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Pets & Animals

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• brown
• widow
• spider
• porch
• house
• natural
• pest
• control