Title: One of the dumbest things I've seen on youtube. Arachnophobes, keep out. Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Jan 12, 2012 Author:m Post Date:2012-01-12 13:37:48 by PSUSA2 Keywords:None Views:217 Comments:8
There is a group of related comb-footed spiders called Steatoda (widows are Latrodectus) that look smilar to widows, but do not have the type of red marking like the Widow in the first frame of this video do.
Quite possibly the maker of this video did creative editing to scare impressionable idiots like you, who's to say?
The one thing I would agree with though, as Black Widows don't particularly like hairless hominids, it is better to never handle one. Unless someone really enjoys making surprise runs to the emergency room.
They are usually docile from what I know of them. You can handle them maybe 99% of the time with no problem. But that remaining 1% is a bitch. Painkillers don't help. Even those that milk them for venom don't use conscious spiders.