Northern Black Widow

Also known as Northern Widow

Northern black widows construct tangled, exceptionally strong webs in dark, sheltered crevices such as woodpiles, rock walls, and tree hollows. Unlike their southern counterparts, they display a broken hourglass pattern of two distinct red triangles on the underside of their abdomen, along with a row of red spots down the dorsal midline. Females remain stationary in their retreats, waiting for wandering insects to trigger their sticky trip lines before quickly immobilizing them.