Hey guys. So I found a spider outside today. Don't have a camera, so I didn't take a picture. It was mostly white or light tan, with a black hourglass figure (perfect hourglass, not anvil or separate dots). I live in Southeastern Wisconsin, and according to the internet it's likely to be one of two things: a brown widow spider, which can range in colour from white to almost black, or an adolescent northern widow.But the thing is, what I've read about both of them seem to indicate that the hourglass will be white to yellow or red in colour...nothing about black. What do you think?tl;dr: Do any other spiders have hourglasses, or can black/brown widows have black hourglasses?
OP here, pic is of the underside of a brown widow.
Come on, you guys are like black widow experts. Or...well, maybe black, anyway.
protip: Blackwidows are black
>>139161Not necessarily.
Regardless whether its black, brown or white the hourglass is a sure sign its a widow of some flavor. So leave it alone or itll give you a very nasty bite.