Arachnophobia alert! There’s an eight-legged terror lurking in Spain’s warm coastal regions, and it’s got a reputation as ...

With the death of a student last year after a spider bite, it is good to know what action you should take if you are bitten.

The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) is a lesser-known relative of the infamous black widow. The first brown widow spider was discovered in Los Angeles in early 2000. A member of the ...

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

The first occurrence of a dangerous spider known as the Black Widow has been confirmed in Slovakia. The adult female arrived in Slovakia from California in a shipment of machine parts goods. She also ...

A 37 year old woman in California injected a crushed up black widow spider to see if she could get high from it, and she was admitted to the emergency room a few hours later ...

Brown widow spiders are venomous, but they're considered much less dangerous than the black widow. Although brown widow venom is just as toxic, the brown widow spider injects a much smaller amount ...

Brown recluse and black widow spiders are venomous spiders Black widow and brown recluse spiders are "the two types of venomous spiders that are really of medical concern," Gangloff-Kaufmann explains.

The black widow spider's bites cause such serious symptoms as chest pain and nausea; however, it is not deadly but can be dangerous for children and older adults. The brown widow, like the black ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...