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 09/01/2008 01:54:17 PM · #1
My mother found this little "friend" behind a set of drawers. We think it is a Black Widow, however it isn't round like a female black widow, it might be a male but the pictures of those don't seem to quite match either.



The scale is tenths of an inch, so 0.5 is half an inch, and 0.4 is about a centimeter.

Thanks for any input on this guys! :)

-tog
09/01/2008 01:55:39 PM · #2
With the red hourglass on it, it's a black widow.
 09/01/2008 02:01:39 PM · #3
Definitely.
eta; it might be an immature female, as they often have markings on their back rather then the glossy roundness we associate with them.

Message edited by author 2008-09-01 14:05:57.
 09/01/2008 02:05:36 PM · #4
Brown Widow Spider, (Latrodectus geometricus) often confused with the Black Widow.
Commonly found in Florida
 09/01/2008 02:05:50 PM · #5
Looks like these.
 09/01/2008 02:07:21 PM · #6
Weird, the sites I looked at said the brown widow had the hourglass broken into segments, but that one shows it whole as well.
 09/01/2008 02:26:57 PM · #7
I would say it is a black widow that has been dead for a while. Its abdomen is dried and shrunken.

Where did you find it?

09/01/2008 02:32:15 PM · #8
It was very much alive and kicking, and sadly to the spider lovers here, survived four treatments of raid and was still moving.... :/
 09/01/2008 02:39:54 PM · #9
That said, I would lean toward the brown widow. The leg coloring better matches that than the black widow. The black widows I have seen around Boise Idaho when we lived there were all black except for the hourglass.
 09/01/2008 02:44:48 PM · #10
Looks like an adolescent black widow to me. Black widows don't get fully black until full maturity, with their legs usually being the last to change. Either way, kill it and look around for others and also an egg-sac, then use a long bbq lighter to burn the sac.
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