Now, my spider braveness does not extend to black widow's. I probably would have squashed it with a whole tree, if I could! :laugh:
The spiders around here are usually pretty tame, but I did kill one when I was a kid that was pretty large, and it had weird white markings on it. I had to kill it because it was right by our basement door, and that getting inside and crawling around the basement was the stuff of nightmares. It might have been a swamp spider(though I was nowhere near a swamp) though I've often wondered if some exotic deadly spider may have wandered away from a pet shop or something. And with apologies to spiders everywhere, because they're mostly pretty nice, in the case of this one I can honestly say....ick!
Costly...