Other visual characteristics that will help you identify a brown widow spider include: A dark brown, black or mottled tan body with striped legs that may be a mix of dark and light shades of brown.

There are six species of false widow spiders that live in the UK (Steatoda nobilis, Steatoda grossa, Steatoda bipunctata, Steatoda albomaculata, Steatoda triangulosa and Asagena phalerata). They are ...

The brown widow spiders prefer to build their webs in protected and sheltered areas. UC Riverside’s Center for Invasive Species Research states, “The bite of a brown widow spider is minor in ...