Unidentified

My night photos of spiders on my white house have those shaddows that look like extra legs and bonus bodies too. The spider is dark brown (the see-through legs) – so that’s a bonus. The genus is probably Steatoda, it could be a brown widow, false widow, a noble widow, or a few other similar species. They all like dark protected spaces and tend to have their back toward the ground. The “tangle web” spiders have messy looking webs, like in your photo. I have some Steatoda in a shed, under our vinyl siding, and in my covered compost bin.… Read more »