I honestly haven’t got a clue what this is, I thought maybe it was a garden orb spider but it was in the bin/garbage store room in the basement of an apartment block that has only been built in the past 3 years, there are a lot of flies buzzing around there so plenty of food
Hi, it looks like Steatoda noblis, a noble false widow. They have distinctive markings on the abdomen of a lighter crescent near the cephalothorax and a marking that looks like a stylized eagle or a head in a hood. The tangleweb spiders resemble orbweb spiders in body shape, but they’re usually smaller and darker. The webbing looks messy, dusty, and random, but it serves a few functions. These are good spiders for control of crawling insects and of spiders more venomous to humans than the noble false widow is.
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I honestly haven’t got a clue what this is, I thought maybe it was a garden orb spider but it was in the bin/garbage store room in the basement of an apartment block that has only been built in the past 3 years, there are a lot of flies buzzing around there so plenty of food
Hi, it looks like Steatoda noblis, a noble false widow. They have distinctive markings on the abdomen of a lighter crescent near the cephalothorax and a marking that looks like a stylized eagle or a head in a hood. The tangleweb spiders resemble orbweb spiders in body shape, but they’re usually smaller and darker. The webbing looks messy, dusty, and random, but it serves a few functions. These are good spiders for control of crawling insects and of spiders more venomous to humans than the noble false widow is.