With a shiny black body, a bright red mark that’s shaped like an hourglass, and with their tangled, three-dimensional web, they look incredibly scary. And much has been written about spiders in Florida, particularly black widow spiders. After all, this is one spider that even looks dangerous. Unfortunately, not everything you’ve heard about this spider […]
Read MoreFlorida spiders come in all sizes, but one of the most dangerous is the Black Widow spider. We all know to look for the telltale hourglass marking on its abdomen and the sharply angled “stiletto” legs. What else do you need to know about the Black Widow spiders, and what do you do if you […]
Read MoreA friend of ours loves to tell the story of how he became scared of spiders as a child. At first, he loved them. As a kid, he thought house spiders were fascinating. He loved watching one that crawled across his ceiling every day. One day, he noticed it was carrying an egg sac. He […]
Read MoreOf course, there are many types of spiders in Florida. The bulk of them are common house spiders. Unlike brown recluse spiders, these are typically harmless and may even be beneficial because they’ll eat bugs. This makes them valuable in places like greenhouses or out in the wilderness, where they can help keep the mosquito […]
Read MoreArachnophobia may affect less than 10 percent of the world’s population, but that’s just because most people don’t know any better. Right? Well, not necessarily…but Florida IS home to several species of venomous spiders that everyone – arachnophobes or not – should learn to identify and avoid. There are two main categories of dangerous spiders […]
Read MoreYou may not know this, but there are nearly 34,000 different species of spiders around the world. Luckily Florida is not home to all of those species, however Florida is home to numerous kinds of both poisonous & non-poisonous types of spiders such as the Jumping Spider, Shiny Orb Spider, Wolf Spider, Crab Spider and […]
Read More