Under my house, there is this little ledge. I saw a messy looking web there, in one of the corners, and looked under. A black widow is what i found. It was night out, around 9:00pm. the spider did move when I shown a flash-light on it, but it did not go out of sight.
A photo of a classic common house spider on a cement wall. I was initially looking for lichens, but found more spiders than lichens. Unfortunately, this one was the only one I was able to take a photo of. With light brown, almost beige body color with long and thin legs, I am pretty confident that this boy is a common house spider.
The tangle-web spiders (Theridiidae), also known as cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, are a large family (over 2200 species in over 100 genera) of three-dimensional space-web-builders found throughout the world. Theridiid spiders are entelegyne (have a genital plate in the female) araneomorph ecribellate (use sticky capture silk instead of woolly silk) spiders that often build tangle space webs and have a comb of serrated bristles (setae) on the tarsus of the fourth leg.
