There upwards of 3,700 species of spiders in the United States, and more than 500 of these live in Illinois, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. But which of these are considered ...

There are more than 43,000 species of spiders globally ... the elderly and the sick. The female black widow is easily ...

In this interview, Andrade talks about spending months on end in the Australian outback peering into the nocturnal lives of redback spiders (one of about 20 species in the "black widow" genus ...

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' ...

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 ...

The black widow spider can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Its venom is toxic and painful, leaving victims to feel the effects long after the bite. Following is a transcript of the ...

The false widow spiders (Steatoda spp ... and Asagena phalerata). 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 ...