While both are arachnids and spine chilling to behold, there are many differences between a male vs female black widow spider ...

When it comes to spider love, female widow spiders hold the key to attracting mates, potentially adjusting their web’s attractiveness to lure males, according to new research. A study led by Simon ...

Male and female black widow spiders exhibit striking sexual dimorphism. Females are significantly larger, darker, and possess ...

I think I spotted a false widow spider in my garden and now I’m worried about being bitten. Are there any precautions that I ...

Most spiders pose very little danger to humans, including the notorious noble false widow (Steatoda nobilis). But the half-inch predator does punch surprisingly far above its weight. According to a ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The Noble False Widow is considered "highly competitive against native European spiders sharing the same habitats" thanks to its high venom potency and ability to optimize venom usage, an Irish ...

Dawn Sturgess looked out her bedroom window in southern England one day last summer just in time to witness an arachnophobe’s nightmare: a shrew was tangled in a spider’s web, and its ability to ...

Scientists from the Ryan Institute in NUI Galway have published the first record of a Noble False Widow spider feeding on a protected species of Pipistrelle bats in the UK. The new study, published ...

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Scientists have published the first record of a Noble False Widow spider feeding on a protected species of Pipistrelle bats in the UK. The new study demonstrates that False Widow spiders continue to ...