Alexandre Thomassin is a grass herpetologist: he spends his free time exploring different environments to find mammals, snakes, amphibians and all kinds of bugs. It was during such a forest trip to Lake Beauchamp in Gatineau, while he was actively looking for bugs, that he fell nose to nose with a black widow from the north, a rare discovery given the shy and unaggressive character of the spider. The black widow of the north, named as the female…
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Alexandre Thomassin is a grass herpetologist: he spends his free time exploring different environments to find mammals, snakes, amphibians and all kinds of bugs. It was during such a forest trip to Lake Beauchamp in Gatineau, while he was actively looking for bugs, that he fell nose to nose with a black widow from the north, a rare discovery given the shy and unaggressive character of the spider. The black widow of the north, named as the female…