And then the female's bigger with the red dot on her abdomen that makes it so obvious to tell that she's a black widow," said Molly Mullen, spokesperson for Fontenelle Forest.These spiders aren't ...

Black widows are small to medium-sized spiders with shiny black bodies ... The males are also not black, but instead brown or grey with small red dots. Females are far more venomous than males ...

To best see what's transpiring between these two widow species, Coticchio tested close brown widow interactions with three related spider species: the Southern black widow, the red house spider ...

Regardless of whether you experience arachnophobia or you simply want to avoid having to clear spider webs from your home, ...

Of the four venomous spiders in South Carolina, three are from the widow family: the southern black widow ... of an hourglass, the red on its body shows as splotches or dots.

We’re talking about spider season ... exist in Western Washington. Female black widows are usually black, about half-inch long, with a red or yellow-orange marking on the underside of their ...

The 8-year-old boy in Bolivia found the black widow spider under a stone. After seeing the characteristic red markings on the arachnid, he allowed himself to be bitten because he wanted to become ...

Everyone knows to watch their step around a black widow—including predatory birds. A new study shows that birds know to avoid the spiders based on their bright red markings. Meanwhile ...

so he looked it up on a phone and saw a photograph of a black widow spider with a red hourglass on its underbelly, she said. "We grabbed a pair of pliers, and sure enough, we saw on its underbelly ...