Close-up Photographer of the Year is open to all. The annual competition delivers another stunning selection of images from ...

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

A heroin user deliberately injected herself with a ground-up black widow spider in an attempt to get high. The 37-year-old woman from California, went to hospital in pain and told doctors that she ...

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 ...

Black widow spiders in Spain - should you be worried? Deadly spiders in Spain? Female European black widow. Credit: By Ken-ichi Ueda - https://www.inaturalist.org ...

“I held on so tightly during the making of the film and the difficult postproduction phase, when everyone wanted me to make it less violent, less excessive, less gory, less frontal,” Fargeat said.

A battle of beetles has won this contest celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography revealing amazing hidden wonders ...

A recent study provides insights into the life history and behaviour of the endemic Cape Autumn Widow butterfly (Dira clytus), a species endemic to South Africa. A recent study published in the ...

Most spider bites cause local pain, redness and swelling. It's much like a bee sting reaction. A few spiders (such as the Black Widow) can cause a more severe reaction. Helpful if spider seen on the ...

While filming a documentary in Northern Ireland, a team of scientists discovered a new fungus that appears to manipulate spiders’ behavior–and turn them into “zombies.” The fungus named ...