Welcome to episode 3 of our Beginner's Guide to Spider Identification! In today's video, we'll go over the diverse family of cobweb spiders (Theridiidae) in a way that focuses on the spiders you are most likely to find outside and inside your home.
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Image Sources:
https://www.quikkill.com/blog/post/everything-every-davenport-property-owner-needs-to-know-about-black-widow-spiders
https://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2013/04/encounter-with-black-widow.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_grossa
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47382-Latrodectus-hesperus
https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/brown-widow-spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_tredecimguttatus
https://bugguide.net/node/view/42293/bgimage
https://spiderid.com/spider/theridiidae/steatoda/triangulosa/
https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/steatoda-nobilis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/81579-Steatoda-triangulosa
https://mobugs.blogspot.com/2017/07/leafy-cobweb-spider.html