the black widow spider
The banana spider is not the most venomous spider. It is only mildly toxic to humans.
The spider that is black with a white crescent on its back is the Brown House Spider. This spider is often confused with the red-back spider.
It's a perfectly harmless (and beautiful) ARGIOPE spider. Also called the black and yellow garden spider, banana spider, or corn spider.
My guess is that this spider you saw was either a Jumping Spider (quite possibly a Daring Jumping Spider) or a Parson Spider.
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My pet house-spider is called Ghost Buster. The 'posh' name for spiders is arachnid. That is where people who are afraid of spiders are called arachno-phobic. Being scared of spiders is called arachnophobia. =)