Western black widow with bluets.

Spiders honestly freak me out, I find them very unnerving, but they’re very important to the ecosystem so I have been trying to get along better with them! Drawing them helps. :-) This pretty lady is the most venomous spider in North America! They are very small and don’t release a lot of venom, though, so their bite is rarely fatal.

[ID: an illustration of a glossy black spider with a red hourglass marking hanging from a web. It is posed symmetrically on a tan background with irregular webbing, and is surrounded with small blue flowers, petals, and buds. End]