Comments & ID Thoughts
I'm almost positive this is a black widow spider. I was digging around in my garden bed and saw a web in the corner that's next to my porch and then I almost touched the spider before seeing it. Freaked me out! We seem to have a lot of these identical spiders around here alot this past year or so.
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- Submitted: Oct 10, 2018
- Photographed: Aug 12, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
It looks like a black widow. I wouldn’t go poking it. XD
Just as I suspected it is. Oh I definitely don’t plan on poking at it
The red marking matches the southern black widow. A northern black widow has the red mark broken into two parts.