The Mediterranean black widow spider is easily recognized by the thirteen red, orange, or yellow dots spread across its abdomen. They’re rather large at up to 15 mm.

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 ...

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 ...

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.