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Please can someone help to identify this spider (I have already been bitten by a spider in the garden last year with not pleasant results so I don’t want to put these in the garden if they are poisonous). They are in a metal bin in the garage that contains a big bag of thistle bird seed. I have submitted another photo as the abdomen part looks slightly different to this one.
Please help us!!
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- Submitted: Apr 14, 2019
- Photographed: Apr 14, 2019
- Spider: Steatoda bipunctata (Rabbit Hutch Spider)
- Location: Chadderton, Oldham , United Kingdom
- Spotted Indoors: Garage or shed
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes: Dorsal
Apr 14, 2019
Apr 14, 2019
Chadderton, Oldham , 
Hi, see above image for ID. 🙂
Hi! Thank you so much for responding! Is it part of the false widow family (I’m getting mixed info from the internet)?
Yes, the genus Steatoda is collectively called “False Widows”. A common name for this particular one however (Steatoda bipunctata) is “Rabbit Hutch Spider”, it’s just more specific.
And to make things more confusing, in the singular, a False Black Widow is a common name for a particular species, Steatoda grossa. Collectively they are all also called cobweavers or cob web spiders or tangle web spiders, etcetera..