Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Arachnid meets reptile, or should I say eats!!!

Here is a photo of what looks like some type of a black widow spider that entangled a lizard in its web at my parent’s house in Westminster, CA.
The spider and lizard were hanging from an empty Jacuzzi, which is typically the kind of place these spiders hang out. Spiders, classified as Arachnids, are predatory invertebrate animals that produce silk, a thin protein strand that normally traps insects and then are able to inject poison with their fangs.
This lizard, classified as reptile, seemed to be paralyzed until my mom killed both of them with a broom.

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