Sure, a cobweb in the living room might not look the best outside of the Halloween season, but that's a small price to pay to not have gnats buzzing around my face or cockroaches scurrying about ...

Fortunately, fatalities are fairly rare; the spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them. The animals most at risk from the black widow' ...

Nicholas Brandley didn’t think so, and embraced the study of black widow spiders. “Their fangs don’t even usually pierce human skin!” he says in an effort to be reassuring. While widows ...