Black Widow

Corey discovered a rather unwelcome guest this afternoon, taking up residence in the coils of the water hose. It's a black widow spider.

The horror that he brings
The horror of his sting
The unholiest of kings
The Black Widow

— Alice Cooper

Alice is wrong, however, since only female spiders exhibit the telltale red hourglass figure on their abdomen. The black widow spider (Latrodectus spp.) is venomous, injecting a neurotoxin that is 15 times as potent as that of a rattlesnake (according to Wikipedia, anyway). Good thing Corey didn't just reach for the hose, otherwise instead of adding this blog entry I might have been high-tailing it to the Emergency room.