The northern black widow spider looks different than its southern counterpart, with its identifiable feature being three or more red dots. These bright markings are sometimes referred to as ...

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 ...

and the Western black widow. These spiders are identified by the characteristic red hourglass marking on the underside of their abdomens and are known for their neurotoxic venom, which can cause ...

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 ...

(Yifu Wang) The northern black widow is a black spider with red markings and sometimes white slashes on its back, and two red triangles on its belly that form the separated top and bottom halves ...

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 ...