brandonlgilbert wrote:That is probably a mature brown widow. If you look at the legs in the second pic you will still see some dark brown areas. My car had a freakin colony of brown widows last year living under the body, in the wheel wells, and in the engine bay. I only drive it maybe once a week, so they feel at home. Apparently the brown widow has a fondness for 240's and cars in general because the more I read about them in my research revealed that they will set up shop under a car.
Fortunately, they are not agressive like their black widow relative. The brown widow will leave its nest (web) and its egg sacks if it is threatened. The black widow will defend its self, home and eggs until death and are very aggressive.
The only good ways to tell the difference between the two are:
juvenile brown widows are brown and grow darker with age until they are almost totally black. the black widow is completely black.
The best way is to find the egg sacks. A black widow egg sack is smooth all the way around. The brown widow egg sack has little spindles coming off of it kinda like a sea mine.
end biology lesson.
it was for sure a black widow. here is a google link to brown ones. i even jarred the little bastard and he lived for months without any food just in a sealed jar. crazy
http://images.google.com/image...ab=wi
Johara2320 wrote:lol i found a bee hive on my radiator. i dont know how it had the time to make a hive or how they lasted in there.
my 95 240 was sitting after i wrecked it and i took the tail lights out of it and there was a bee hive in the rear bumper. brake clean and a lighter took care of it though
