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<blockquote data-quote="Adraps11" data-source="post: 66580" data-attributes="member: 4220"><p>Letting a widow crawl across your hand is just asking for it. lol No they don't feel comfortable outside their webs, and you're likely to get bitten. They are cob weavers and like any other cob weaver they are very nervous when you remove them from their webs. It's like me asking if it's okay to let a fat female recluse crawl across my hands. NOPE! I'm going by what I experienced in the months after being bitten by the recluse: intense pain, cramps, fever, infection of the bite site, cold chills, and a huge medical bill. When I captured my northern widows I was only twelve or thirteen, but even then I never let them crawl on my hands. I kept them in a jar with a hide for a few months just to observe their behavior. When I had to open the jars to feed, I put on some heavy duty gloves that went up to my elbows. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adraps11, post: 66580, member: 4220"] Letting a widow crawl across your hand is just asking for it. lol No they don't feel comfortable outside their webs, and you're likely to get bitten. They are cob weavers and like any other cob weaver they are very nervous when you remove them from their webs. It's like me asking if it's okay to let a fat female recluse crawl across my hands. NOPE! I'm going by what I experienced in the months after being bitten by the recluse: intense pain, cramps, fever, infection of the bite site, cold chills, and a huge medical bill. When I captured my northern widows I was only twelve or thirteen, but even then I never let them crawl on my hands. I kept them in a jar with a hide for a few months just to observe their behavior. When I had to open the jars to feed, I put on some heavy duty gloves that went up to my elbows. ;) [/QUOTE]
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