June 3, 2014 at 1:31 pm
#809052
anonyme
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MM: Aren’t Salticids awesome?! Are you familiar with the genus Portia? So cool to meet someone on WSB who knows their spiders…!
BTW, there is a small colony of Latrodectus on Whidbey Island, but none in the rest of Western Washington that I’m aware of. In the case of Cheiracantheum (a small, booger-colored spider with a dark clypeus) I suspect that the severity of bites has to do with individual sensitivity – just as with bee or wasp stings.