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OWL158 wrote:
We just found this guy in my car...crawling over my wife's shoulder. We live in Eastern Virginia and have no idea how it got in my vehicle. At first i thought it was a Black Widow but the bottom only had 2 small orange colored dots and the top displayed an orange red solid stripe.
Looks like what has been identified as a Red Black Spider?? Any guesses and are Red Blacks poisonous?