If you get a close enough look, you will notice that brown recluses have six eyes, while black widow spiders have eight eyes. Female black widow spiders are well known for their red hourglass ...

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 ...

MOST spiders are totally harmless – but a select few can give you serious trouble if they bite. Complications from some of Earth’s deadliest eight-legged biters include painful erections, ...

Brown recluse spiders are also known as fiddleback ... have three light colored streaks on their abdomen. It’s the female black widow spider that has the distinctive red hourglass shape on ...

The rest of the female black widow spider is typically shiny black or dark brown in appearance. The male black widow spider ...

The false widow spiders (Steatoda spp ... 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 an adult female is 15 ...

Fortunately, fatalities are fairly rare; the spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them. The animals most at risk from the black widow' ...

A woman has undergone surgery after being left seriously ill when she was bitten by a spider hidden on a cushion. Louise Edwards, 49, was bitten by the arachnid, thought to be a false widow spider ...