Hello, and welcome to SpiderID! Your spider is a male or juvenile female Latrodectus hesperus, the Western Black Widow. I don’t know about the beetle, but I recommend submitting it to BugGuide.net, as they have insect specialists over there.
Hello, and welcome to SpiderID! Your spider is a male or juvenile female Latrodectus hesperus, the Western Black Widow. I don’t know about the beetle, but I recommend submitting it to BugGuide.net, as they have insect specialists over there.