I was confirming some suspected decay to a sill plate and header joist when I ran across this ole’ girly. She’s about twice as big as any widow I’ve ever seen before in over 8700 inspections. Her abdomen alone is approximately 3/8" to 7/16" and her leg span is about 1" to 1 1/8"
2 snakes; 2 opossum; hundreds of widows; racoon slumbering on a smoke shelf; bat in the living room curtains; mice (of course); squirrels; I believe that’s it for me.
Michael: It would be much easier and more dramatic if you whould have placed your little “pinky” right next to her so we could relate her size in comparison. Maybe next time, eh?
i see these “celar dwellers” all the time. oddly enough, i’ve never seen one alive…but yet the species lives on. never a bug in there webs, never any bugs around to feed on, how do they do it.
wasn’t on an inspection, but walked out into my moms garage carrying stuff, went in the man door took two steps,and felt something big bump against my leg, looked down and to the left,saw bear cub, looked right and towards the loud growling sound, saw mama bear, needless to say my body moved much faster than my excrement did!