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SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoNo worries, if your heart is in decent shape, you’re actually not in much danger from a black widow, as far as I know. It’s mostly the elderly and the really young who die from their bites these days.
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Good to know. Nevertheless, I hope to never be in a situation where I get to find out. I’m guessing they’re suuuuper rare here. I checked the iNaturalist app and there were no observed sightings of either type mentioned in that article.
There’s probably just a colony in the back of a supermarket somewhere.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’m from Vancouver, and there was definitely a few that lived out back of my dad’s house when I was a teen. TIL my dad’s house was a supermarket!
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I can see them surviving in the wild in Vancouver, but here in MB it regularly gets to -30 to -40 for several months in the winter. I’m not sure they’d like that too much.
That said, maybe your dad’s house is a supermarket. Does he have lots of food in it?
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Well…he’s definitely a better cook than my mum, but I’d say more like regular amount of food?