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    Female black widow spiders are typically larger than males and have an distinctive hourglass shape on their abdomen. They have a shiny black body without hair and can grow up to 1.5 inches long. Their venom is highly toxic, causing muscle cramps, difficulty breathing, fever and potentially death if not treated. Black widows eat arthropods and live in areas like North America, Australia, wood piles and hollow tree stumps. Females will sometimes eat males and young spiders. They lay egg sacks containing hundreds of spiderlings.

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    Female black widow spiders are typically larger than males and have an distinctive hourglass shape on their abdomen. They have a shiny black body without hair and can grow up to 1.5 inches long. Their venom is highly toxic, causing muscle cramps, difficulty breathing, fever and potentially death if not treated. Black widows eat arthropods and live in areas like North America, Australia, wood piles and hollow tree stumps. Females will sometimes eat males and young spiders. They lay egg sacks containing hundreds of spiderlings.

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    Black Widow Spider

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    Female black widow spiders are typically larger than males and have an distinctive hourglass shape on their abdomen. They have a shiny black body without hair and can grow up to 1.5 inches long. Their venom is highly toxic, causing muscle cramps, difficulty breathing, fever and potentially death if not treated. Black widows eat arthropods and live in areas like North America, Australia, wood piles and hollow tree stumps. Females will sometimes eat males and young spiders. They lay egg sacks containing hundreds of spiderlings.

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    BLACK-WIDOW

    By: Jacob

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    Description
    Usually, Black-Widows-Spiders are 9milimeters in length. Also, Female Black-Widows
    are much bigger then the male and, the male Black-Widow has NO hour-glass shape on
    its bottom. Female Black-Widows can grow up to about one and a half, inches! Did you
    know, Black-Widows dont have hairy bodies, it looks like it but, they actually have
    black shiny bodies. The different types of Black Widows in the U.S. are the SouthernBlack-Widow, the Northern-Black-Widow, and the Western-Black-Widow.
    Special Adaptions

    Poison: When you get bitten by a Black-Widow, youre in trouble! Because the poison works fast and you start to have cramps in your muscles, then you start to find it
    hard to move, breathing becomes difficult. Whats next you ask, you start to develop
    a high fever and you start to feel faint and, if you dont get special treatment fast
    you will parish in other words, die.
    Diet

    They eat Arthropods (Which is a major grouping of animals such as, insects,
    and Arachnids.
    Habitat And Home

    The world my animal lives in: North America, Mexico, Australia, and New
    Zealand.

    It prefers a habitat called: Urban, temperate forest and woodland.

    My animal likes to rest and sleep in: Wood piles, stones, in the hollow
    stumps of dead trees, basements, and barns as well.

    Family

    Did you know that female Black-Widows will eat the male Black-Widow and,
    her spider lings.

    Female lays an egg-sack

    My Observations

    I have been viewing my animal in the wild, I have observed:

    The female Black-Widow spider lays an egg-sack which mostly


    contains 250-750 spider lings.

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