What Are Brown Widow Spiders? It seems everyone has heard of the black widow spider.But there is a little-known cousin that's becoming a pest in certain parts of the United States — the brown ...

The brown widow spider shares some similarities with its relative, the black widow spider, but there are some differing details that make this arachnid stand out.

There are dozens of species of spiders living in Alabama, ... The brown widow seems to have moved into Alabama around that time and spread to northern parts of the state in the early 2010s.

As for the brown widow spiders killing their cousins, scientists have yet to figure out why. There’s no competing for resources and no other spider species have been impacted by the brown widow ...

The invasive brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, is thought to be native to South Africa, but has moved to several places around the world and made a home there, including the United States, ...

In the L.A. Basin, there’s a good chance of peeping a venomous brown widow, the most commonly observed spider in the area on community science app iNaturalist.

True to their name, female Black Widow spiders have shiny black bodies and a red hourglass shape on the underside of their abdomen. Females are traditionally larger than males, their bodies can ...