Learn how to get rid of black widows with these effective spider control methods. You can identify black widows and prevent ...

Male Black Widows are significantly smaller (about 1/8 inch) than females (about 1/2 inch) and have varying patterns of red to orange dots and lines (sometimes bordered with white) on their abdomens.

Black widows are vanishing from certain regions of the U.S. Scientists found that a competitor, the brown widow, may largely be to blame for the iconic arachnid's decline.

In fact, of the 1,866 black widow bites reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers during 2013, only 14 resulted in severe symptoms and there were no deaths, ...

Brown and black widow spiders are just two of the four species of widow spiders in Florida — all venomous. The southern black widow and the red widow can also be found in parts of the Sunshine ...

Black widow spiders (right) are commonly being displaced by the brown widow spiders (left), a fellow species in the same genus, Latrodectus. The Images are not shown to matching scale and thus do ...