So I caught this gal in my garage and like.. it has the little hourglass but nothing else looks like a back widow?

I'm used to them being black, shiny, and having really fat butts

like super round.

*black widow i mean

that's a male black widow I think? hard to see the pedipalps and of course these photos are just the underside

but males are browner and patterned on the top side, and less round

they have that same hourglass though

^ that's correct, that's a male black widow

ohhh. i still have it in a jar because I'm about to put it outside. I'll get a pic of the top

they also tend to have those stripey legs like that

okay maybe not cuz this little cup is curved and not clear.

Ah. neat tho. He's still being evicted to the shrubs.

lmao yeah widows are lovely and I enjoy seeing them and they do not get to live in my house, they go out

if I didn't have cats he could stay in the garage where he was. but my cats are dummies that would stick their face in the webs.

Oh my a pretty man

Oh, cool! I've never seen a male before.

Brown widow. Slightly less poisonious.

Me black widows are very small

*male

That’s a male and a female black widow

oh looking that up now. I didn't even know brown widows were a thing.

he's been evicted to the shrubs by the dumpsters. catch many bugs outside little buddy.

apparently there weren't brown widows in California til 2003 which explains why I haven't heard about it before.

That's super cool wow