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 ...

In this interview, Andrade talks about spending months on end in the Australian outback peering into the nocturnal lives of redback spiders (one of about 20 species in the "black widow" genus ...

Black Widow Lifespan: How Long Do Black Widows Live? When it comes to longevity, black widows are somewhat of an anomaly in the spider world. Female black widows can live up to about three years—a ...

Meet some of Reddings most venomous residents They tend not to bother us unless we bother them, but more live with us as we move in on their homes.

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 ...

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 ...