One Spoiled Spider

So I was wandering the isles of my favorite thrift store the other day and stumbled upon this little house for $1 and thought BINGO! This is perfect for Charlotte!


Originally I was happy letting her live out her life in a mason jar (Although getting food in to her was tricky because I was always afraid she was going to escape), but that was when I expected her to pass on to that great spider web in the sky soon. I figured with winter coming on, her days were numbered.

Then I googled Black Widows and found that while the males only live one year, the females can live up to five, and who knows how old our little beauty is? I couldn't let her live for years in a mason jar! So we got her a habitat and she moved in to her new home this afternoon.


At first she was more than a little reluctant to leave the old home behind. We had to coax her out of her glass jar, but she did a quick tour of the new digs and immediately started setting up house. She built her web between the little tree and the little hut there on the far right and then we dropped in a couple of crickets for lunch and she snatched one of those right up.


So here is our little spoiled spider in her new home, doesn't she look happy? And on a side note I googled this little bug habitat to see how much it normally runs... FIFTY BUCKS!!!!!!!! It comes with a little bug vacuum too, but seriously, who spends that kind of money on a BUG HOUSE? Yeesh!