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I found this spider crawling around my living area. I was at first alarmed by it’s shiny black color, but as l looked closer it’s red spots alarmed me! I have found a black widow spider at the convenience store/ gas station that l worked at many years ago. That one however had a very bulbous shaped body with a very distinct red hourglass shape on the underside. This one here has several red dots on both top & bottom & the body is slim in shape.
Hello MsBrenda and Welcome to the Project Noah community!
We hope you like the website as much as we do. There are many aspects to the site and community. The best way to get started is to read the FAQs at http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you can find all the tips, advice and "rules" of Project Noah. You, like the rest of the community, will be able to suggest IDs for species that you know (but that have not been identified), and make useful or encouraging comments on other users' spottings (and they on yours).
There are also "missions" you can join and add spottings to. See http://www.projectnoah.org/missions . A mission you should join is the https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/219... to chose the "best wildlife photo of 2019",only the spottings added to that mission are eligible.Note that most missions are "local". Be sure not to add a spotting to a mission that was outside of mission boundaries or theme :) Each mission has a map you may consult showing its range. We also maintain a blog archive http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we have posted previous articles from specialists from different geographical areas and categories of spottings, as well as wildlife "adventures".
So enjoy yourself, share, communicate, learn. See you around :)
Hi MsBrenda — I think you might find this page useful. Scroll down this page to the section entitled “Remarks”:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/26421
Spotted on May 11, 2019
Submitted on May 12, 2019
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