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I found this on the wall in my bedroom late at night. It was just crawling up the wall. I caught it to take a picture. It didn’t seem aggressive, I thought it was a black widow at first glance. Is this a Steatoda Borealis or a black widow? Should I be concerned with children in the home? Poisonous?
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- Submitted: Oct 23, 2018
- Photographed: Oct 22, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Flagstaff , Arizona, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Also spider had what appeared to be a dot on the abdomen but it was super hard to distinguish. But the marking on the top was like a line/triangle this was whitish-yellow in color. Off white… I’m terrified of spiders so i need to be reassured it’s not dangerous.
It is a male of one of the Steatoda species, often called False Widow Spiders. It is not a Black Widow.