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 ...

but male redback spiders are brown, while male black widow spiders are black or gray. However, this is not where their ...

Hot take: I think you should let spiders live in your ... “The southern black widow, Latrodectus mactans, lives in the southeastern U.S. west to Texas, south into eastern Mexico, and tapers ...

The false widow spiders (Steatoda spp.) form a group of species that, because of their general resemblance to the much more notorious black widow spiders (Latrodectus ... shiny abdomens. Male abdomens ...