Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Spider Identification, 1 by EClaireL

EClaireL wrote:
Okay, you were right Flapdoodle! It was definitely a widow. I couldn\'t get a clear picture of the ventral side; I wasn\'t able to hold the camera steady enough for a slow shutter speed in the dark. The hourglass was more of a faint burnt orange, but getting up close with the flashlight, it was unmistakable.
There were a couple things that threw me off one: one it was big, over two inches. And two, the abdomen didn\'t look shiny like the rest of it, it seemed covered with a short gray fuzz. Do they molt?