The brown widow spider may sound like someone confusing other venomous spiders like the black widow or brown recluse. Despite the confusion, the brown recluse spider is real and, for people who ...

This spider's bite is much feared because its venom ... The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their ...

No wonder they’re called widow spiders. To get sex with an older female, a male might fight off many rivals or perform courtship gestures for up to six hours. At the magical moment, he’d place ...

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 spider has a distinctive hourglass-shaped mark on its belly that is tan or orange in colour. Photo: TNS A poisonous spider, once confined to Africa, is slowly spreading around the ...