And she has come....Latrodectus Hesperus
Perhaps she and I will have a truce, perhaps with some unease on my end of it, yet this way she and her babies do not have to die (she has hung a huge egg sack, the size of a gumball)
Caution, this link shows a picture of one of her species, so if you have arachnophobia, please DO NOT Click this link
I just cannot kill her, because I look at her, I see not just a poisonous spider, but an ikotomi , a Grandmother to the Native Amercian Indian...
I know I know...if she bites me, it could be bad. Yet, my own great grandmother was bitten several times in her life, on her fingers, as she hunted for acorns fallen to the ground, by ones disturbed in the leaves.
She survived each of her numerous bites, left with only some fingertips that were permanently numb due to the toxin.
While she is here I will call her Hesperia. For her scientific "last" name Hesperus, which is probably from Hesper who is the Greek goddess of the evening star in Greek mythology.
I think the name suits her, because she is a beauty~~ glossy black, like a perfectly round drop of ebony.
Caution, this link shows a picture of one of her species, so if you have arachnophobia, please DO NOT Click this link
I just cannot kill her, because I look at her, I see not just a poisonous spider, but an ikotomi , a Grandmother to the Native Amercian Indian...
I know I know...if she bites me, it could be bad. Yet, my own great grandmother was bitten several times in her life, on her fingers, as she hunted for acorns fallen to the ground, by ones disturbed in the leaves.
She survived each of her numerous bites, left with only some fingertips that were permanently numb due to the toxin.
While she is here I will call her Hesperia. For her scientific "last" name Hesperus, which is probably from Hesper who is the Greek goddess of the evening star in Greek mythology.
I think the name suits her, because she is a beauty~~ glossy black, like a perfectly round drop of ebony.