The following day Leon took charge of the spider, which is actually quite rare in South Africa. These pictures, which were taken in 2004, now serve as an educational aid. The brown button spiders ...

Female brown widow spiders are relatively small at about 13 millimeters ... The brown widow spider is thought to come from either South America or Africa, but no one knows for sure.

The invasive brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, is thought to be native to South Africa, but has moved to several places around the world and made a home there, including the United States, ...

The study sheds light on a web of confusion regarding the decline of one of the most infamous types of spiders – and what could be causing it. Brown ... in South America or South Africa.

where its diversity across the brown widow spider populations was studied by BGU researchers between South Africa, Israel, and the United States. The microbial communities in populations of brown ...