Spider identity..

[Digby]

Having had a false widow in our garage last year, today, at our lockup on a farm, this was waiting for me just inside the door. We also have a bright green one somewhere.

I flipped it over and it played dead for about 30 mins. It looks like an evil mask when turned over.

[Digby]

fausTVR said:

I tried and failed to get an idea of scale with OPs pics, but I'll bet it assumed you were a bird when you capsized it and so it showed its angry cat face to scare you.

I was trying to move it away from the door on a piece of paper so as not to tread on it and flipped it as I tried. It then did what you see above.

I didn't even kill the false widow we found. I let that go in the woods at the end of the road (bad idea?)