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Small black spider with white dots?
I live in San Diego and work at the zoo. We have to watch out for black widows, and I was afraid these might be juveniles. The same places we occasionally find widows, we often find these much smaller, smooth, black spiders with white dots. I have heard that if they're fuzzy, they're jumping spiders, but these are not fuzzy at all. These look like black widows that are smaller, lighter in color, with white dots. Maybe I should ask our entomology dept.!
Well, it looks most like the photo of the male widow. It could be that, but the dots are more like small, precise polka dots, rather than streaks, dots, and hourglass. So, idk.
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- TobiasLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
If they're in a web, they could be any number of web-building spider. There are a great many, that build different types of webs. If not in a web, then they could likely be jumping spiders, or maybe even juvenile fishing or wolf spiders. If you can get a photo, that would help a great deal.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1993
http://bugguide.net/node/view/412452
http://bugguide.net/node/view/241043/bgpage <-That's a male widow spider
- Anonymous5 years ago
I went on the web and all I could fine was a spider called the white dotted wolf spider. I know nothing of spiders, but that's what I found.
