Brown widow spiders are venomous, but their bites are considered much less dangerous than other venomous spiders.

Of the over 46,000 known spider species, only about 200 have venom potent enough to be of medical concern. This is assuming, of course, that an individual isn’t allergic to specific components ...

Black Widow spiders belong to a family called ‘cobweb’, ‘tangle-web’, and/or ‘combfoot’ spiders. Their webs are constructed in a seemingly unorganized, irregular pattern and serve as ...

Brown widow spiders are now found throughout urban Orange County. Before 2003, however, these cousins of black widows were virtually unknown here. Their story is one of rapid adaptation to a new ...

The brown widow spider, a non-native species that first showed up in Florida from Africa in 1935, is eradicating its cousin the black widow from urban and suburban habitats in Florida and other ...

Black widow spiders have earned a fearsome reputation for their venomous bite. But in parts of the southern United States these spiders have much to fear themselves—from spider relatives who ...

Black widow spiders are waning in the southern US and brown widows may be the culprit – in lab tests, they were more than six times as likely to kill southern black widows than other arachnids ...

The brown widow spider, a non-native species that first showed up in Florida from Africa in 1935, is eradicating its cousin the black widow from urban and suburban habitats in Florida and other ...