Black widow spiders are being killed off in the U.S. The culprits are actually their cousins: brown widow spiders. Though the reason behind the killings is unknown, a new study suggests.

A black widow spider with an egg sac. The spider can be found in every state other than Alaska. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images "And unlike bees and wasps, they do not leave their dwelling to ...

And widow spiders, particularly black widows, certainly don't need to be unfairly villainized. Of course, you don't want to be bitten, because their venom can cause minor to severe symptoms.

Editor’s note: This article was updated at 5:35 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, to correct that the red hourglass shape is on black widow spider’s abdomens. Originally Published: November 17, 2023 ...

Black widow spiders across the southern United States are getting eaten up by brown widows, their lesser-known cousins, according to new research investigating the relationship between the two ...

Black widow spiders are being killed. The culprit surprised scientists. Published: Mar. 17, 2023, 6:20 a.m. A female black widow spider (Latrodectus), hanging upside-down in her web, showing the ...

Black Widow spiders are rarely deadly and have a bad rap, with no deaths since 1983 | Opinion By Sacramento Bee letter writers. June 2, 2024 5:00 AM.

Brown widow spiders, which are invasive to North America, are wiping out black widow populations in the U.S. by aggressively attacking them for no clear reason, a new study shows.

How to Identify a Black Widow Spider. There's probably a specific image that comes to mind when you picture a black widow spider: A large, shiny, black spider with a red hourglass on its belly.

Black widow spiders (right) are commonly being displaced by the brown widow spiders (left), a fellow species in the same genus, Latrodectus. The Images are not shown to matching scale and thus do ...

If you find black widows hiding in out-of-the-way places in your home, it's important to get rid of them as quickly as possible. This type of spider can lay up to 200 eggs at once, so even a few ...