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Looking to identify this one. Initial thoughts are false widow. Currently lives in a crack in an external wall in the south of England. Nocturnal but doesn't sit at entrance. When it does appear more of its body is out than that of the other tube web spiders I have in my garden. Its nippy too- there one minute and gone the next.
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- Submitted: Aug 3, 2019
- Photographed: Aug 4, 2019
- Spider: Steatoda (False Widows)
- Location: Southampton , United Kingdom
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Help identify this spider
Apr 25, 2020
Apr 25, 2020
Would love people’s thoughts on this
Noble False Widow (Steatoda nobilis) if I’m seeing it right, not certain with this level of detail.
Itsybitsy- I’ve done a fair bit of research on this, while false widow was my initial thoughts I was a bit thrown by the web being more of a funnel than the scaffold. Also quite hard to find information on this particular spiders behaviour. Is what I’ve described typical?
The funnel part of the web might belong to another spider.
Also although they don’t make funnel webs if there is a crack in the wall a Steatoda will take advantage of that as a safe place to hide.