Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

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 ...

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 structure of a tetrameric form of the spider neurotoxin ... variety of neural and endocrine cells in all vertebrates (the venom contains additional, insect-specific toxins).

This spider's bite is much feared because its venom is reported to be 15 times ... The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders.

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 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.

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

Which one of these spiders is a black widow? Which one of these spiders is a black widow? Spiders eat snakes around the world, surprising study reveals Spiders eat snakes around the world ...

The female of the Black Widow spider is known to sometimes eat the male after mating, hence the nickname "black widow". The venom of these spiders contains the neurotoxin latrotoxin and can be ...