{"id":6377,"date":"2009-09-28T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2009-09-28T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:19:58","slug":"beware-the-brown-widow-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6377","title":{"rendered":"Beware The Brown Widow Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/brown_widow.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/brown_widow.jpg','popup','width=400,height=225,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/brown_widow-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Brown Widow\" \/><\/a>Every morning when we go outside it seems like we&#8217;re walking into one big spider web. Seems like bits of web are catching us at every turn. We&#8217;re just hoping it&#8217;s not the newest poisonous invader whose work we keep running into. <\/p>\n<p>According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/news\/landing\/ktla-brown-widow-spider,0,6557376.story\" target=\"_blank\">KTLA.com<\/a><\/strong> the Brown Widow spider in invading SoCal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Originally from South Africa, the brown widow spiders were first spotted in San Diego in 2004. . . Experts say they have multiplied by the thousands and have been found as far north as Carlsbad and as far south as Imperial Beach. . . The brown widow&#8217;s venom is more potent than the venom of its cousin, the black widow, and one bite can send a person to the hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We think we saw one on our fence the other day. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/news\/landing\/ktla-brown-widow-spider,0,6557376.story\" target=\"_blank\">KTLA<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning when we go outside it seems like we&#8217;re walking into one big spider web. Seems like bits of web are catching us at every turn. We&#8217;re just hoping it&#8217;s not the newest poisonous invader whose work we keep running into. According to a story on KTLA.com the Brown Widow spider in invading SoCal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}