Fortunately, fatalities are fairly rare; the spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them. The animals most at risk from the black widow' ...

and he adds that the males and adolescent spiders between all species are especially hard to differentiate. “The southern black widow, Latrodectus mactans, lives in the southeastern U.S. west to ...

The black widow spider mostly lives in the southern half of the U.S., although different species have been spotted in every ...

The first occurrence of a dangerous spider known as the ... are several dozen reports of Black Widows in Slovakia every year, but this is only a false alarm. "So far, it has always been the common ...

The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) is a lesser-known relative of the infamous black widow. The first brown widow spider was discovered in Los Angeles in early 2000. A member of the ...

The thought of black widow spiders is enough to send chills down one’s spine ... two out of 14 antibodies cross-neutralized between the whole venom of European and Southern black widows, suggesting ...