The research, which was published in PLOS One, explains that regular sightings of black widow spiders in more northern areas has steadily picked up over the last half-century or so and the range ...

An updated species distribution map published this week in a new PLOS One study shows that the northernmost range of black widow spiders (Latrodectus variolus) has increased by about 31 miles (50 ...

The black widow spider (Latrodectus spp.) is a spider notorious for its neurotoxic venom. ... may range in color from white to yellow to various shades of orange and red.

Black Widow Spiders Are Heading North As climates increasingly shift and change across much of their range, the distribution of the northern black widow is expanding into what used to be ...

Venomous black widow spiders now range farther north than scientists expected, into an area including the most-inhabited parts of Canada. And there's good reason to suggest that warming ...

A male western black widow spider looks very different than a female. Davefoc via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0. Black widows ... Climate change is expanding their range ...

Black widow spiders across the southern United States are getting eaten up by brown widows, their lesser-known cousins, according to new research investigating the relationship between the two ...