The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the ...

Young females are more fertile and easy to woo; older females often mate and then eat the male alive. No wonder they’re called widow spiders. To get sex with an older female, a male might fight ...

Hot take: I think you should let spiders live in your home ... females more closely resemble the complicated male pattern. “The northern black widow, Latrodectus variolus, lives in the ...

The black widow spider can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Its venom is toxic and painful, leaving victims to feel the effects long after the bite. Following is a transcript of the ...

The false widow spiders (Steatoda spp ... and Asagena phalerata). They are black or brown in colour, rotund, and small - growing up to about the size of a small finger-nail. The maximum body length of ...