The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the ...

How to Identify a Black Widow Spider There's probably ... Crawford points out that juvenile females more closely resemble the complicated male pattern. “The northern black widow, Latrodectus ...

Unfortunately for NC arachnophobes, one of these species may prefer hiding in folded linens, closets and shoes.