Hello and welcome to Haiku Friday! My prompt today is Black Widow Spider. For those of you that don’t know much about these little creatures here’s a bit of information.
The Black Widow Spider is a carnivorous bug. Yes, you read correctly. They are also considered the most venomous spiders in North America. This spider is just a little bigger than a paper clip but don’t be fooled––it’s bite is much feared because its venom is reported to be 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s.
The animals most at risk from the black widow’s bite are the male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the insect its name. Black widows are solitary year-round except during this violent mating ritual. To feed, black widows puncture their insect prey with their fangs and administer digestive enzymes to the corpses. By using these enzymes, and their gnashing fangs, the spiders liquefy their prey’s bodies and suck up the resulting fluid.
Black Widows are identified by a colored hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens.
Black Widow Spider
Carnivore
by Vashti Quiroz-Vega
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Black Widow Spider
A notorious partner
Hourglass marks his death
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The Writer Next Door | Vashti Q 
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