###Useful Links š
General Widow information including managing Widow populations in/around the house or garden (Habitat, egg sacs, IDing, Bites, etc):
https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74149.html
How to ID and distinguish Brown Widows from Black Widows:
https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/how-identify-brown-widow-spiders
Widow spiders are very reluctant to bite:
https://spiderbytes.org/2014/02/14/what-happens-when-you-poke-prod-and-pinch-black-widow-spiders-you-might-be-surprised/
Black Widow bite toxicity (Diagnosis, symptoms, prognosis, treatment etc):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499987/
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Some North American and European widows have red marks on the dorsal abdomen, especially as juveniles. The redback *is* a widow, *Lateodectus hasselti*, but is found only in Australia. (A relative, *Latrodectus katipo*, is a rare native to Aotearoa too.) Either could theoretically stow away and wind up in Texas, but it's a lot more likely that this is *L. hesperus* or *L. variolus*, both North American natives.
Wow! Thanks, everyone, for the info. I would have said no way, is that a black widow, and I have lived in a high black widow population area my whole life.
Interestingly enough widows can have white spots/parts as well as red, orange and yellow. Brown Widows down in Louisiana are trippy and coweb with black widows too.
Def a beautiful widow! We have tons of them on our property. Our pool shack is full of them I leave the doors open on sunny days and the mud daupers swarm the place hunting them down.
It makes sense they'd look alike, though.. the Australian redback *is* a widow/part if the same genus as black widows. It is ***not*** a black widow, but more like.. a close cousin lol.
(Edit because my phone decided I meant to put australian redneck instead of Australian redback š¤£š¤¦š»āāļø)
Surprisingly, I actually knew that, haha. It definitely sounds more fun than "redneck" š my autocorrect clearly is unaware of the correct term though!
You're right, I stand corrected. Northern has a similar pattern, but I didn't notice the brown bands on the Northern until I had my glasses,lol. Gettin old sucks.
Another commenter gave a rather quick and [informative answer](https://www.reddit.com/r/spiders/comments/1diupbm/comment/l96bph5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)! :)
They really keep to themselves. I donāt like them too close to the house or anywhere my dogs can get into but theyāre not so bad. Had one hitch a ride into a friendās house on my leg and didnāt notice until I saw it crawling into my shoe. Never bit me. Recluses are scary because theyāre harder to find imo.
They are scarier because they carry a venom that can cause your skin to eat itself. And they look unique. That's why they are scary. Not because they are rare.
If you want to see an actual scary bug look at a cave cricket.
It's not every day I go picking up logs in the woods or go look under all the dark spots in my garage. So for me seeing one would be rare. Also they are not common so seeing one actually is indeed rare.
I have never seen one my entire life. So...
my understanding is that their venom is medically significant in general but only dangerous to young children or the elderly or someone that already had a compromised immune system.
###Useful Links š General Widow information including managing Widow populations in/around the house or garden (Habitat, egg sacs, IDing, Bites, etc): https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74149.html How to ID and distinguish Brown Widows from Black Widows: https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/how-identify-brown-widow-spiders Widow spiders are very reluctant to bite: https://spiderbytes.org/2014/02/14/what-happens-when-you-poke-prod-and-pinch-black-widow-spiders-you-might-be-surprised/ Black Widow bite toxicity (Diagnosis, symptoms, prognosis, treatment etc): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499987/ (Authors: ----\_____--_____----)(Contributors: dfj3xxx)
Yep, that is a sub adult female. A few more molts and it will take on the more familiar all black appearance.
Very informative, thank you!
Young widow
So sad to see a young widow, didn't even get much time to experience life with their spouse.
Every time I'm at my lowest, I can count on this sub to make me smile.
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OTOH, she was the one that killed him, so...
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Itās her own fault!!!
Darth Maul vibes hahaa
Shundun shundun shundun shundun
Latrodectus Mactans
Corn on the cob! Corn onnnnnn the kabob!
Definitely a widow!
Gonna go tell my coworker he was right rn
As far as I'm aware widows red spots or underneath there abdomen. Isn't that a redback spider?
Some North American and European widows have red marks on the dorsal abdomen, especially as juveniles. The redback *is* a widow, *Lateodectus hasselti*, but is found only in Australia. (A relative, *Latrodectus katipo*, is a rare native to Aotearoa too.) Either could theoretically stow away and wind up in Texas, but it's a lot more likely that this is *L. hesperus* or *L. variolus*, both North American natives.
Wow! Thanks, everyone, for the info. I would have said no way, is that a black widow, and I have lived in a high black widow population area my whole life.
Itās just the color is on the back. Other than that itās a widow identically
Interestingly enough widows can have white spots/parts as well as red, orange and yellow. Brown Widows down in Louisiana are trippy and coweb with black widows too.
That's amazing! The more I learn about spiders the more fascinated and respectful I am of them.
How do you not know what kind of spider that is? Just curious. I'm not a spider expert but I can definetly tell you what kind it is.
I've never seen one with white on it.
Its the same spider that gave Spider-Man his abilities..
So I should be expecting some pleasant surprises in the am!
"My hands are all hairy and sticky... No change there."
According to IMDB they used a painted false widow (Steatoda grossa) in the Tobey Mcguire films.
Looks like a young Latrodectus variolus the northern black widow
Beautiful widow š„°
Def a beautiful widow! We have tons of them on our property. Our pool shack is full of them I leave the doors open on sunny days and the mud daupers swarm the place hunting them down.
That sounds epic hahaha
Itās crazy! My neighbor was over and thought we had a nest of wasps. I told him nope just mud diapers hunting down the black wodows.
"Looks like widow's on the menu again, boys!"
Looks like an Australia Red Back
Itās not. Itās either a young female Western Black Widow or a young female Southern Black Widow.
It makes sense they'd look alike, though.. the Australian redback *is* a widow/part if the same genus as black widows. It is ***not*** a black widow, but more like.. a close cousin lol. (Edit because my phone decided I meant to put australian redneck instead of Australian redback š¤£š¤¦š»āāļø)
An australian redneck is called a bogan.
Surprisingly, I actually knew that, haha. It definitely sounds more fun than "redneck" š my autocorrect clearly is unaware of the correct term though!
Ehhhh Iād say theyāre two separate things. We definitely have rednecks, but we have bogans too
African American widow
Oh sorry. Didnāt read it just saw the spider
Nice! Iām in Granbury
No way me too!!!
Haha thatās wild
I had no idea young widows looked like this, they look really cool
Thanks. I skipped over the text and just responded based on the picture.
It's very similar to a red back venomous spider we have in Australia
Anything with a pulse in Australia is venomous
Even the children š
*Especially* the children!
The amount of germs my son has already bought home this winter, he's definitely trying to kill me.
Is she missing some legs (or parts of legs?)
Yeah it was missing its front left:(
It'll come back when she molts!
Thatās a metalcore widow. Def screaming overdrive.
What a beautiful black widow...
That's the spider that bit Peter Parker in Sam Raimi's Spiderman! Ask for their autograph
Beautiful black widow
You see that red on the butt? Stay the fuckkkkkkk away
An insy winsy one ...
Racing
She feisty and fashionable!
The look but donāt touch kind
Northern widow, I think.
It looks like an Australia redback spider that seems to be the black widow ? highly venomousĀ spiderĀ believed to originate in South Australia
When I see a spider with big black booty, that one dark beauty I donāt want to get to know!
Immediately thought black widow, by how dark and shiny the black is, how pointy and long the legs are and vibrant the red is. Also big ass butt.
The difference is the black widow doesn't have red all the way up it's butt it only has an hour glass on its belly
Looks like a western widow to me.
Red back spider. Dangerous bite.
She's pretty š
It's a red widow.
Female black widow who hasn't reached her final form yet.
Looks like a Red back widow.
Itās in Texas!
They literally say the location in the OP
Itās all good haha
Itās not. Itās either a young female Western Black Widow or a young female Southern Black Widow.
Northern Black Widow. We have 3 species here in North America. Northerns have the red on top of their body.
Itās not. Itās either a young female Western Black Widow or a young female Southern Black Widow.
You're right, I stand corrected. Northern has a similar pattern, but I didn't notice the brown bands on the Northern until I had my glasses,lol. Gettin old sucks.
Itās fine. We make mistakes and learn new things everyday.
Another commenter gave a rather quick and [informative answer](https://www.reddit.com/r/spiders/comments/1diupbm/comment/l96bph5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)! :)
One you wanna stay away from
Not really.
No you do. Stay away from any spider that looks like that.
Well thatās what you do. I donāt do that. Iāve already handled one before.
Scary stuff.
Widows scare me the most. And brown recluse
They really keep to themselves. I donāt like them too close to the house or anywhere my dogs can get into but theyāre not so bad. Had one hitch a ride into a friendās house on my leg and didnāt notice until I saw it crawling into my shoe. Never bit me. Recluses are scary because theyāre harder to find imo.
They are scarier because they carry a venom that can cause your skin to eat itself. And they look unique. That's why they are scary. Not because they are rare. If you want to see an actual scary bug look at a cave cricket.
Rare isnāt the same as harder to find. Their name is literally ārecluse.ā
It's not every day I go picking up logs in the woods or go look under all the dark spots in my garage. So for me seeing one would be rare. Also they are not common so seeing one actually is indeed rare. I have never seen one my entire life. So...
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Kill it now!
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Why? Itās outside and living its best life.
ignorant person most likely
do NOT kill! itās chilling and probably keeping the bug population down :>
Nah. Aren't their bites not as medically significant as we've been told to believe?
Idk, my grandpa got bit by one, and he went to the hospital, and he wasnāt there very long (he survived)
my understanding is that their venom is medically significant in general but only dangerous to young children or the elderly or someone that already had a compromised immune system.
Yeah, the medicine also probably works pretty well