Cobweb spiders spin messy, sticky webs, often in dark corners or hidden spaces. Most of these spiders are harmless. However, the western black widow also belongs to this family.

Unlike cobwebs, which are the abandoned remains of old webs, intact spider webs serve an immediate survival function. If you see a spider web in your home, you can safely assume its resident is ...

They were also more likely to peacefully live next door to other cobweb spiders, such as red house spiders. Cobweb travelers Brown widows first showed up in the U.S. in 1935, in Southern Florida.

In experiments pairing brown widow spiders in container habitats with related cobweb spider species, the brown widows were 6.6 times more likely to kill southern black widows than other related ...

In the first census of its kind, researchers combed through 50 American houses and found a surprising diversity of arthropods—creatures with hard exoskeletons, such as spiders and other insects.

We call them "cobwebs," but there are many different types of spider webs. The very first thing to know: Not all spider webs are actually cobwebs. Various types of spiders make different types of ...

If you feel like you're running into spiders (or, shudder, their cobwebs) everywhere right now, you probably are. Here's why: Garden spiders have a seasonal timetable. They hatch in the spring ...