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Latrodectus mactans
Shiny black body with a red hourglass shaped spot on the underside.
Found under an old broken bird bath, but I often find them between bricks, rocks and beneath plants along the edging of my flower beds. The webs look like a messy patch of webbing more like cobwebs not like what people typically think of as a spider web.
Poisonous. The egg sacs look like small round tan or white balls encased in web.
Spotted on Apr 16, 2020
Submitted on Apr 23, 2020
1 Comment
Hello LadyMonarch and welcome to the Project Noah community!
Nice first spotting!
I change it to arthropods categories for you :-)
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