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First floor inside home living room, not at basement level, found in new web along baseboard. Might be a juvenile female widow of some kind, but I’m not an expert. New Mexico.
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- Submitted: Nov 24, 2022
- Photographed: Nov 24, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Me again, after some web-searching (I’ll see myself out in a second), it’s looking a lot like a juvenile MALE western black widow. Hopefully an expert can help confirm (palps crossed).
You can’t cross male palps easily. 🙂 There are a lot of potential puns that could have been used to name this Web Site. They didn’t ask me. If you have visitors over for Thanksgiving you could ask, “Does anybody know if this is a Black Widow or a Brown Widow in the living room? I totally would. That’s one way I get out of hosting meals.
I think he’s a Brown Widow. The egg sacks (to help confirm) of Brown Widows look like (little bits of lemon meringue ) spiky white balls. I’ll look for comparison photos,
https://bugguide.net/node/view/23403 This has some male Brown Widow images
https://bugguide.net/node/view/479593#841331 this is a male Western Black Widow. @BugmanDan which species do you think it is? I remember you being more much more familiar with them than I am
Hi. The male doesn’t have much widow look, more like adult Steatoda.
The female would more likely be a young juvenile western black widow.
When I find myself in doubt, I let the spiders stay until they mature.
After the male dies, a palp can be examined under a microscope.