Comments & ID Thoughts
This looks like a black widow but it doesn’t have any red.
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- Submitted: Oct 23, 2021
- Photographed: Oct 23, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Arvada, Colorado, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
I agree. This is some type of widow. Usually what we find in Colorado is the Latrodectus Hesperus, which does typically have the red hourglass mark. This could either be a variation or a different species of widow that’s not native to here, like the northern black widow.