Caroline shot this. She was out watering her plants when she noticed this tiny, almost translucent spider sitting amongst the spines of one of her cactus. We have many spiders here at home; occasionally we wake in the morning with a bump on our skin that is neither caused by mosquito nor flea (our cat Murph doesn’t have fleas), it isn’t a pimple, so we figure it must be a spider bite. There is a gecko living next to a ceiling lamp in the entryway to our apartment, but he only seems interested in flying bugs. I wish we could train it to enjoy spiders.
That is a baby black widow, dear.