Comments & ID Thoughts
Found this Black Widow in my back yard near a fire pit.
- Submitted by:
- Submitted: Jul 15, 2019
- Photographed: Jul 15, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Quinton, NJ 08079, New Jersey, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Under rock, log, or debris
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Black Widow
No doubting that one. Latrodectus spp. Black Widow. Northern and Southern overlap territories but I suspect yours to be a female Latrodectus variolus. Do you have the ability to submit a photo of her back?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_variolus
I can’t figure out how to post another picture to the original post, but the back of the spider is solid black. I did not see any red spots on the top side of the abdomen typically associated with Latrodectus variolus, and the hourglass shape is connected. I believe this is the Latrodectus mactans.
Wow, all the way up in the Garden State.