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

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 ...

The female Widow’s abdomen is large and globular in shape (males’ are narrower and flatter) and the legs of these web-building species are relatively long and slender.

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 ...

Few spiders in the North Texas area are of medical concern, but black widows and brown recluse spiders can be dangerous.

Brown widow spiders are believed to have originated in either Africa or South America but they have spread all over the world. They were first seen in Florida in 1935.

Male and female black widow spiders exhibit striking differences. Females are larger, with glossy black bodies and a red hourglass marking, while male ...

The female black widow is easily identified by a red hourglass shape on the underside of its black abdomen; the mature male is typically brown to blackish with red and black stripes. The spider ...

According to the Indiana Department of National Resources, Indiana has about 400 known species of spiders, but only two can seriously injure humans: The Black Widow and the Brown Recluse.

Brown Widow A relative of the black widow, the brown widow has lighter-colored markings, pale legs with dark joints, and a yellow-orange hourglass marking on its abdomen.

Haley Bennett sparkles as the titular character in "Widow Clicquot" which touches on love, loss, grief, innovation, passion, change and womanhood.

Dr. Monica Mowery and colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev compared microbial communities in populations of brown widow spiders collected in South Africa (the likely native range of the ...