Don't reach for a shoe the next time you find a spider in your home. Squishing some types of spiders can create even bigger issues, so try this method instead.

Here's how to protect yourself against the most dangerous bugs. Black widow spider Black widow spiders are—appropriately enough—black with two reddish triangles on their back. Roughly the size of a ...

If you see a few black widow spiders in your yard or your garden shed and don't want to kill them because, you know, that's their habitat, Graham-Tye suggests spraying a mixture of peppermint ...

While they show up in homes, they prefer to nest outside because humans don't usually tolerate their prey (grasshoppers, mosquitoes, beetles and other insects). How to identify a black widow: An ...

Arguably one of the most iconic spiders in the world, the black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans) is an arthropod with an unmistakable identity.This jet-black arachnid ranges from 0.2 to 0.5 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The false widow spider—which resembles the infamous black widow—is just one example of how nature has evolved lookalikes that can make it tough for people to tell one bug apart from another ...

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 ...