These two black widows have made their homes on my patio. (The arachnid variety, if I even need to specify, AHAHAHA.) Now, I'm no entomologist (or arachnologist, technically, since spiders aren't true "insects"), but I know the scarlet hourglass of death when I see it, hah. From my somewhat limited knowledge of spiders, I know that the black widow is regarded as one of the most dangerous, and is one of maybe four types of spiders with venom toxic enough to potentially kill a human (albeit, probably only a weak, sickly one).

But yea, I was pretty shocked, and I told my coworkers about it, and they were like, "yea, that's nothing special. They're pretty common around here. Just don't mess with them, and they won't mess with you." I dunno, I guess I'd just never seen one before I moved out to Vegas. I remember black widows were the kinda thing we joked about back in the schoolyards of Plano, like, "yea, you better watch out, or a black widow'll come for you in your sleep!" So yea, now I've seen both black widows and scorpions at my apartment complex. =O If I see poisonous snakes too, I'm out of here! >:O