Black widow

You can find your own mantis eggs if you know what to look for. We've hatched them in a dwarf spruce on our deck before. Little ones everywhere in the spring. You're right, I should have turned them loose in the office.

Jesus, i Think i would burn my House to the ground if I found a spider that big in my house😱

Man, fortunately those are not that abundant here. Of course we have Recluse, nine inch centipedes and bark scorpions up the wazoo. Back in Ojai, my rock piles had so many widows that ole Lowell freaked when he came to raid them before my Texas move. There is another comb footed spider that feeds on back widows. Smaller than them too so I don't know how that works. Could be the reason we have so few widows here is the huge number of different kids of spider eating wasps. We have a huge mud daubers almost two inches long that is beautiful metallic blue and really likes widows. Makes incredible mud nests like two foot long organ pipes that it stuffs with paralyzed spiders....Mel

That and trump makes me happy to live in denmark😜

They aren't that big. The bulb of the abdomen is maybe 8-10 millimetres.

Denmark huh? Gee based on what I see in the news, IMHO I'd rather have Trump, scorpions, widows, centipedes and fire ants than the wall to wall Muslims, hugely high taxes and nanny state socialists all y'all have messing up your countries in Scandinavia. Besides, a little danger makes things more interesting. Old Europe just sounds crowded, too PC and boring as all get out.

Garage rocker, Those fire ants are a royal pain all right. Those boogers sting so hard they can almost make your leg buckle and afterwards they itch like a bygod for days. Just had to bait the yard as new mounds really pop up after a rain. Scorpions aren't too bad as the stings hurt like Hell but go away fairly fast.

No offense taken *S*. After all, you're not here and I'm not there so neither of us has a handle on the other folks' range. To be fair, my nephew just got back from a vacation to Denmark and he liked it but he was amazed at how crowded Europe is and how much dope was around in Denmark. He's a very conservative kid and lives in a small rural town like me. Far as I'm concerned, they would have to build a bridge so I could drive there cause I do not like plane travel. ( Flying incident back in college *L*). I myself prefer the wide open spaces slow country living and my horses. Whatever floats your boat but tourism is not my thing.....Mel

We are practically infested with them here in N.CA. You don't see the big-un's that often because they are very shy but I could walk you around my back yard and point to probably 20 different "nests" marked with their tell-tale sticky disorganized webs. They stay out of the house and I stay out of dark places (ugg..) so we get along just fine.