My first encounter with the species! Very cool looking widow compared to the ones out west.
Since I last looked at her 3 weeks ago, she's dropped these three eggsacs. Another good sign. The other female katipo under the same piece of wood is pretty close to adult now too.
Last week the tourists from the Coast Care conference kept these two busy with their paparazzi work.
This doesn't look like most photos of the brown widow, but 'brown widow' is the top suggestion here, and a brown widow and many egg sacks were seen on the same metal fence last September.