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The only time I've definitively seen one was in my kitchen. I put it in a Tupperware and let it loose in the yard. It was so slow moving that I was never particularly concerned about being bit.

I had no idea the bite was that bad or I would have just finished it off instead.

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I lived for a few years in a particularly widow-prone area and had many black widows in the house and garage. I eventually realized that the daddy-long-legs variant in my house seemed to compete handily with them. So I stopped cleaning webs and found I had far fewer black widows. My house appeared rather shabby though. Tradeoffs.

Yeah these are one of the few spiders I kill on sight instead of gently moving to the yard.

Pretty much as soon as I find one I immediately drop whatever I'm doing to make sure it's out of my living space as quickly as possible before I lose track of it.

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