Definitions

1. Black widow spiders are common around wood piles, and are frequently encountered when homeowners carry firewood into the house. (Web site)
2. Black Widow Spiders are most common in the tropics and the Southern United States, but have been reported as far north as Canada. (Web site)
3. Black Widow spiders are usually found around garbage cans, garages, closets or attics.
4. Black widow spiders are often found around wood piles and gain entry into a structure when firewood is carried into a building.
5. Black widow spiders are nocturnal (are active at night). (Web site)

Comb Footed Spiders

1. House spiders belong to the comb footed spiders as do black widow spiders. (Web site)

North American Black Widow Spiders

1. It is a widow spider and is related to the black katipo, the Australian redback spider, and the North American black widow spiders.

Woodpiles

1. Black widow spiders can frequently be found in woodpiles, boxes, outdoor toilets, meter boxes, under eaves, and other undisturbed areas.

Female Black Widow Spiders

1. Contrary to legend, female black widow spiders rarely devour the male black widow spider after mating.

Ground

1. Black Widow spiders prefer to nest near the ground, in dark, undisturbed areas. (Web site)

Small

1. Black Widow spiders are not usually deadly, especially to adults, because they inject only a small amount of venom.

Bite Humans

1. Black widow spiders do not bite humans instinctively.

Rocks

1. Black widow spiders are found in protected places, such as under rocks, wooden boards and in dense plant growth. (Web site)

Areas

1. Be very careful when working around areas where black widow spiders may be established. (Web site)

Undisturbed

1. Black widow spiders have a preference for areas that are undisturbed. (Web site)

Common Sites

1. Low shrubs also are common sites for black widow spiders to occur. (Web site)

Mature

1. It takes two to four months for black widow spiders to mature enough to breed, however full maturation typically takes six to nine months. (Web site)

North America

1. Black widow spiders are found throughout North America, except in Alaska and the far North.
2. Black Widow Spiders are considered the most poisonous spiders in North America. (Web site)

Brown Recluse Spider

1. Two of the more medically important types are the black widow spiders, and the brown recluse spider and its relatives. (Web site)

Hourglass

1. Black widow spiders can be identified by two connected triangles on their underbelly, appearing as an hourglass.
2. Black Widow Spiders also have a small, usually red coloured dot near the spinnerets, which is separate from the hourglass. (Web site)

Abdomen

1. Black widow spiders are most recognized for the red hourglass shape under their abdomen.
2. The female black widow spiders have a distinctive hour-glass shape on their abdomen. (Web site)

Black

1. Black widow spiders are black, shiny and have a very round abdomen. (Web site)
2. Some are black with spots of orange or red on the upper surface of the abdomen, at times confused with black widow spiders. (Web site)

Species

1. Species of black widow spiders, which are found in the warmer parts of the world including the United States and S Canada, have a virulent neurotoxic venom.
2. Black Widow Spiders A number of species of black widow spiders, including western black, northern black, and brown widow, are found in Alabama. (Web site)

Male

1. Male black widow spiders are half the size of the female or smaller.
2. Black widow spiders reproduce sexually when the male inserts his palpus into the female's spermathecal openings. (Web site)
3. Male, black widow spiders are smaller, brown and nondescript.

People

1. Black Widow Spiders are very reclusive, tending to gravitate toward places where people aren't.

Timid

1. Black widow spiders are timid, however, and will only bite in response to being injured. (Web site)

Nocturnal

1. The female Black widow spiders are nocturnal in habit and very timid when approached by humans.

Exoskeleton

1. As is characteristic of all arthropods, black widow spiders have a hard exoskeleton composed of chitin and protein.

Brown Recluse

1. Brown recluse and black widow spiders also live outdoors in barns, utility sheds, woodpiles, and underneath lumber, rocks, and accumulated debris. (Web site)
2. Black widow spiders are not as common in homes as the brown recluse. (Web site)

Garages

1. Black widow spiders generally live in trash, wood piles, garages and other dark places. (Web site)

Spiders

1. The spiders of most concern in the United States, however, are brown recluse spiders and black widow spiders. (Web site)
2. In Arizona, these spiders could be Arizona brown spiders, black widow spiders, funnel-web spiders, or flower spiders. (Web site)
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Webs

1. Black widow spiders build webs between objects, and bites usually occur when humans come into direct contact with these webs. (Web site)
2. Webs: Black Widow Spiders use silk to make tangled-looking webs, usually near the ground in dark places. (Web site)
3. Thus, the webs of orb-weavers are generally free of the accumulation of detritus common to other species such as black widow spiders. (Web site)

Black Widow Spiders

1. Black widow spiders typically prey on a variety of insects, but occasionally they do feed upon woodlice, diplopods, chilopods and other arachnids.
2. Black widow spiders also use their webs to ensnare their prey, which consists of flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars. (Web site)
3. Black widow spiders generally live in trash, closets, attics, woodpiles, garages and other dark places. (Web site)

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