Spider season in Southern California picks up later in the fall when the rains begin. "The ones that are really prominent, particularly this time of the year, are trap door spiders and tarantulas ...

One of three methane-eating, deep-sea spider species recently discovered off the Southern California coast. One of three ...

As far as anyone knows for certain, brown widow spiders have only resided in Southern California for a decade or so -- the first in the region was spotted in Torrance in 2003. But a new survey ...

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Brown widow spiders are relatively new to North America, where they were first documented in Florida in 1935, and even newer to southern California, where they were only recently discovered in 2003.

"Spiders are great hitchhikers ... They're naturals for being distributed by human activity," Brown says. The curator of entomology says the widows started coming to Southern California about 15 ...