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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rick Stallard" data-source="post: 35443" data-attributes="member: 3166"><p>I have a lot of experience in Black Widows. They are written up as not being communal in any way. In Texas I have seen several times rocky areas that cover a few square feet, covered in widows. No more than 6" away from each other. I have a friend in Arizona that has a large lava type rock in his yard. Roll it over and maybe 100 widows are living in the small holes, some not more than an inch from another. Communal means they do it because they know what they are doing and do it for the betterment of all. Tolerant is showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with. I doubt they are knowingly helping each other, but they are tolerating each other. So in what we are following here, I think communal experiment is a perfect way to put it.</p></blockquote><p></p>