Spider ID please?

[ArachnidSpecilist]

I found a spider in a bush that I caught, put it in my jar, and then noticed the red on its back of the abdomen. Looks like a Theridiidae that makes a very neat web and looks exactly like this picture.

 

[chanda]

Theridiidae do not make webs like that - they make tangled cobwebs. What you have in your picture is the tidy web of an Orb Weaver (Araneidae). A more specific location and pictures of the spider would help to identify it. One possibility with the red markings might be an Orchard Orbweaver, Leucauge venusta: https://bugguide.net/node/view/956157/bgimage https://bugguide.net/node/view/1341076/bgimage https://bugguide.net/node/view/934333/bgimage