Okay, so I know this (below) is what a black widow looks like....
The red "hour glass" shape in on the underside (belly).
Well, I found this spider today by the pool (well the kids found it)....here is the underside, like a normal black widow.......BUT
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Here is the back of it.....it has red designs on the top back too.....not just the hour glass underneath........
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Isn't that odd??
I thought black widows were just glossy black until you seen their underside with the red hour glass shape?
I found another one a few weeks ago while walking.....I tried to capture it, but didn't have anything that I felt comfortable with carrying it in. It was just like this one above, but it had white markings along with the red ones on it's upper back........CRAZY!!!
Do I have some sort of mutant spiders??? Ha,Ha