False Black Widow

Typically found in sheltered areas such as crawl spaces, basements, outbuildings, and rock wall crevices.

Carnivorous; feeds on a variety of insects and other spiders by trapping them in tangled webs.

They are nocturnal, sedentary web-builders that spend most of their time waiting in a retreat; they exhibit a messy, scaffolding-style web.

Benefits the ecosystem by controlling pest populations. While they can bite humans if handled, the bite is not medically significant like a true black widow, though it may cause localized pain and blistering.