Unidentified

This is Steatoda triangulosa. You don’t need help, the spider IS the help. 🙂 These are awesome little hunters. They can catch mosquitoes and flies better than any other house spiders I’ve had. They eat all kinds of insects and other arachnids. As a group the genus Steatoda are False Widows. I saw one kill an invasive stink bug – another positive. They are in the same family, Theridiidae, as Black Widows, but they are dangerous to people. That’s why they are FALSE Widows. They only bite if skin is pressed against them in a way that triggers them to… Read more »