If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites every ...

Almost 100 people went to hospital last year with spider bites, according to a report, with the number four times higher than ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On the other hand, experts do worry about spider bites about bites from venomous spiders, particularly black widows and brown recluse spiders. A bite from one of these types of spiders can cause ...