re: Need help identifying this spider -- found it by my front door

Ah, the beautiful Latrodectus mactans, or Southern black widow. An interesting fact about the female specimen that you posted. A female black widow spider can produce four to nine egg sacs in one summer, each containing about 100–400 eggs. Usually, eggs incubate for twenty to thirty days.

Good luck with that.

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I doused it with poison pretty well, but after reading that, I might just give it a good "once over" with the blow torch.

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Too late, you've got hundreds of her demon spawn crawling around in your walls and attic by now.

Sleep tight!

You dumb baw?