Sure, a cobweb in the living room might not look the best outside of the Halloween season ... to learn what I could do to get rid of black widow spiders, where they live, and how to know if ...

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' ...

Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

A heroin user deliberately injected herself with a ground-up black widow spider in an attempt to get high. The 37-year-old woman from California, went to hospital in pain and told doctors that she ...

The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) is a lesser-known relative of the infamous black widow. The first brown widow spider was discovered in Los Angeles in early 2000. A member of the ...