Nope.
Black widows have all black bodies and all black legs.
Dark bodies and banded legs is brown widow.
You're probably right, now that I think about it. Its body was jet black when I first saw her, but the browns do have different color phases. This pic was about 10 minutes after I sprayed her. Can't even go to the car wash w/o having to do pest control
I used to have one for a pet when I was a manager at Terminix. Had her in a 5 gal aquarium. Used to feed her frogs. That was cool as hell to watch
I only know because I was bitten by a brown when I was about 16. Had a carbuncle the size of a softball on my thigh for 2 weeks, really glad it wasn't a black or a recluse!
You fed frogs to a black widow?
Brown widow, yep. we would go catch a small frog out behind the shed a couple times a week and toss it in the tank
She would freakin nail it, and about 10 minutes later it would be dead. The next morning it would be hanging in her web
