I FEED MY WIDOWS! 

Poor widows, Petko. It's nice knowing your taking care of them in their mourning.

7:37 for left handed people its great :)

Hey Petko! That's a species of the Steatoda genus, probably Steatoda grossa or Steatoda nobilis. They are called False Widows for obvious reasons 😂❤❤❤

Every blackwidow web i have seen as well as touch is INCREDIBLY sticky and soooo strong. I have seen reptiles in these webs. I would also like to state PLEASE give them appropriate coverage these aren't like tarantulas they like somewhat damp solitary dark places. I would find them under rocks, in the trashbin, in a dark crevice on the outside of the wall, at the base of the basketball hoop, in a cellar, etc. These were all wild specimens as they are incredibly indigenous to where I grew up... (yes I would roll over rocks very carefully as a kid looking for lizards, and yes there were close calls, but we always put our fingers where we could see them or would use our feet...one rock had 6 full grown girls underneath (yes I think if circumstances are right you might be able to have a communal just give them a bigger space o.o)

This is definitely one of my favorite feeding videos you've ever done! So cool to watch these girls work!!

9:55 she shot out like a blanket of web while using direct silk when wrapping ,it looked so cool .😊

That little orange and white spotted spider is the ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN SPIDER SHE IS BEAUTIFUL

The species you found outside is stearoda grossa, they are often called cellar spider's, cupboard spiders or false widows but are actually related to true widow spiders and are mildly venomous

Wow! Super cool that you were able to capture widows’ feeding rituals. Thanks for sharing!

We have many common Housespiders, I think. Similar Body type and Net, Hunting Style. I feed some wild Spiders Catarpillars from our Plants. I witnessed multiple Times how they hunt. One fought, stole and hauled a 3 Times bigger, live Catarpillar up and away into hiding. They attach multiple Strings in choosen Spots to haul immobilized prey around. They drag, attach, cutting Strings and repeat that until they're secure, it's safe. No sticky Web needed. Don't think they even have that. Love the Style of our Uloborus Plumipes Spiders. They Prey on tiny Flys mainly. Nonstick Nets, no Venom, fastest Webbing I ever seen. They web Prey thick and crush it. They get introduced with Plants into Greenhouses worldwide.

the spider u got in the garden looks like the false widow spiders we have in the uk

That widow spider you caught is called a "False Black Widow Spider" Steatoda grossa

Great video Petko. The Widows really are fascinating to watch. They certainly work hard for their food thats for sure.

This was such a neat feeding video getting to watch what they do with the prey!

I really appreciate the spider feeding videos, I think that seeing the every day spider eat in the macro lens. When I was younger I used to feed all types of spiders around the house to watch and see what it looked like. But it looks so much better this close up :) I am in a Entomemeology Facebook group and we are always calling things "recluses" when we see a centipede, Leggy recluse, caterpillar, green segmented recluse.

Do these widows and recluses need a hiding place? Maybe you can give them those little magnetic hides you gave your jumping spiders before. Sweet feeding footage, btw!

Hi Petko! 🙋🏾‍♀️ Sending love to you and all your widows from N.Y.C, USA. ❤🕷️

Right opening Dark Den enclosures could become a collectors item!

I use to keep common house spiders (parasteatoda tepidariorum) which are related to black widows, they are both in the family Theridiidae, and how they interacted with prey was the same as shown in this video. They would throw web at prey stuck in their web and only after it was thoroughly entangled would they bite it. Then they would take the prey closer to their "hiding spot" or where ever they were hanging in the web and either eat it after it liquefied or let it sit there in a longer term storage, like a larder, if they were not that hungry. Also as an interesting aside, I and a few other people I have talked to who have kept comb-footed spiders think they have at least basic logic and reason abilities having watched them work though problems in captivity. They are a fun group of spiders to keep!

Love your videos Petco and I look forward to seeing them every week . Keep up the good work .

You're doing awesome stuff sir!! Ty for making my Monday evening great!

Petko your channel and content are so awesome you always deliver banging content ❤

Those cupboard spiders or false widows are awesome. I used to catch them as a kid & feed them. It was always exciting to find one cause they look so much like a black widow.

Since this is the Mediterranean, it's quite possible that this is Latrodectus tredecimguttatus; They usually have big red spots, but some are completely black. I had one just like this living in my windowsill for 6 months.

Sounds like voiceover Petko was recorded at a different sample rate than normal Petko.

I like this. Spiders that we actually have in the wild around here.

Those Latrodectus spiders need some cover to hide in! I'm not sure about other Latrodectus spiders but the black windows in America have some insanely strong webs

Love your videos so much

This was such beautiful footage haha

Hello great video information Petcko

The dark den has evolved a lot since the days of the apartment when I subscribed ...❤️

I think your spider is a noble false widow.

I'd say it's a Mediterranean Black Widow spider, just going by the publications on the tourism websites.

In regards to black widow webs, I read that a widow's web is the strongest. There are videos of small snakes being caught in a widow's web and killed by the spider.

Latrodectus Geometricus... the old fashioned brown widow...I've been bitten by one

This is very interesting footage. Unfortunately Weinstadt is to far from my home. I hope you come to the Frankfurt a.M. Region sometime!

I don't know about Tarantula Kat, you're the King of recording spider activity full stop Petko! Fabulous feeding video! Hope you're well! 😁

The brown widow is my favorite as I have a lot of experience with it and I've had many of them as pets and I hope ur spiders live very long! I have had many brown widows which I took care of and then released! I find them everywhere and I find their spiky eggsacs everywhere. ❤❤❤ to spiders and love to u, ive held lot of non veno spiders and they all loved me and slept only Hans or just kinda chilled on my body... but the brown widow has a special place in my heart ❤️ ❤❤❤

OK, I don't know what's going on with YOUR Black Widow spiders, but out here in Arizona, our Western Black Widow girls have some of the strongest webbing in nature. I have actually seen hummingbirds come every morning and harvest big girl's webs from the night before to use to hold their nests together like a bungee net! They are chaotic looking, but she wields it like an expert fly fisher. 🥰

Great video

Most likely that's a Steatoda sp., they're called "false widows", they are closely related to Latrodectus but the byte isn't quite as powerful.

Very interesting spider. Thank you for such great content. I'm always learning something new!!

Hi from south africa Love your videos and because of you. I have faithirteen tarantulas.

Hey Dude, I love those tiny enclosures, I need about 20 of those.

omg awsome video

great video!

thx for coming to germany again :)

We have a few Latrodectus hesperus under our house. Kind of cool as we are not far from the city of Hesperus Colorado.

hi! i really love your videos, i got a question, hope u see this, do you sell and send to other countrys?? specifically to latam?

Awesome feeding footage.

Love widows! So lucky to havem here in the states! ❤

Are you also planning to come to "vivarium" fair at Holland in November?

Will you get some larger terrestrial acrylic enclosure made @petko? I’m still struggling to get glass where I live unfortunately 😞

Coooool video 🕷 🕷awesome footage thanks for sharing

Back in 2000 my Dad found a Black Widow in grapes at the grocery store. He had poured a bowl to eat and seen them moving!! When I got home from school he surprised me with the big female (jet black with a blood red hour glass under the abdomin) that survived. I only kept it for a few months but I was young. Just saiyan awsome collection I have 2 adult LPs

I absolutely wish u shipped to USA because right now the same size smaller enclosures are 30 bucks each here for good ones like urs insane

We get those big black bum false widows in the UK. They have 2 little dimples on their abdomen. We have had them in our garage before.

Looks like a false black widow from other videos I have seen .

Yo Petko! If that was ur lada - I wouldn't show the plates on the internet without any blurring on them :s Just a tip/reminder. Have a great day! :D

cool video!

Your all black spider is called The False Black Widow.

are you planning on making bigger versions of youre acrylic enclosures ive been searching for acrylic enclosures for a long time now but tarantula cribs shipping to europe is so expensive

Nice widows mate, Just awesome.when will you be doing another midnight feeding.

The random spider one, is that not a false black widow? I remember that one because they used the same species for the 2002 Spider-Man movie, the one that bit Tobey Maguire, lol.

That spider will continue to lay egg sacks keep your eye open or you’ll have a infestation in your home

that mistery-spider is probably a spider in the genus steatoda

Neat video.

that looks like a steatoda capensis, native to where i live

Safe Journey! CHOLULA!!!

The venom doesnt have much of digestion enzymes in it. The spider usually introduces them into the prey via saliva, slurps the mixture back up and then "spits in" some more.

...like running with scissors !

looks like they sense the prey on their web and then rush in to catch it with more webbing like a cowboy would use a lasso. that is propably why they dont ne very sticky webs... or they hab to do that because the web is not sticky enough on it's own. anyway: AWESOME footage!

hopefully the Expo in Germany is not run by the same people that you had trouble with. all the very best from Australia :)

The spider from outside is a false widow :) Cupboard spider (Steatoda grossa)

Nice!

Looks like Steatoda paykulliana. There are some color vartiations... so complete black ones are possible...

I read as "I feed my wondows."

Hi Petco! I am from California and I grew up with Latrodectus hesperus, AKA, western black widow. When I was young, I remember being terrified to take out the trash because they would hang out by the big dumpster to catch flies and roaches that would come for the food trash. The messy web is so strong it would freak me out if I accidentally touched it. It would feel like it was holding on and I just knew the spider was gonna get me, even though it never actually happened. 🕷❤

Can you please give us a tarantula video it’s been almost 2 months since we’ve had one

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You should keep giant burrowing cockroaches if you haven't already

Lets hope the person who runs this expo is less of a prick than the previous one ❤

I believe the True black spider you caught is a Latrodectous Hesperus

We had such a wet summer that I have had to kill over a dozen black widows.... most of them from our front door area... I cannot let them be in areas where my young children have exposure to these spiders.

Got a scar on my back from a brown recluse , hope it doesnt escape on you. Cool to look at though!

Disable the legs go in for a bite classic widow feeding❤❤

I’ve found that black widow variant in Southern California U. S. And it is pretty poisonous, so don’t get bit cuz I have and I had the chills, shaking and almost convulsing, plus a fever, puking aching and all those wonderful symptoms and punch that venom has! Oh not too mention that my hand (bite site) burned like fire and traveled up my arm. Regardless of what you believe it to be….. please give it some distance and enjoy observing her. 😊

I like your shirt

It's very interesting to see how differently these spiders deal with their prey in comparison to tarantulas. Kinda makes the tarantulas look like lazy slobs!

it's called steatogagrossa falls in the region of the black widow but is the false version

Wow they are scary looking i would be so darn scared to have these...i am so scared of regular spider only like jumping spiders..as they are cute looking...Question..do the black widow can kill us if we got bite from them..as that what i heard...thanks

I have 7 of those female steatoda grossa for pets. The females of that species actually share prey with their babies. You should have taken the egg sac too so that you could see that behavior.

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Did you let the guys from the spider expo know you're a RU-vidr? We don't want another Facebook drama lmao

Plx come to Poland

You spider is likely a Steatoda sp. false widow. They are in the same family as the real widows (Theridiidae) and common all over the world pretty much. They usually have either white or red markings (S. paykulliana), but their colors can differ from a lighter brown to a pretty much black. Steatoda grossa for example has markings, but sometimes you can't see them very well. Interesting fact: The bite of a real widow can cause "Latrodectism", that of a Steatoda can cause "Steatodism". It's basically a weaker version of the widow bite. You can see a couple horror stories about their bite, but bad outcomes are rare.

that's because brown recluse are kind of plain and are so similar to others. That's why you need exact traits

The type of webs that latrodectus make are called cobwebs~

Giver petko!!!!

Its a home spider