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9 unusual facts about Latrodectus


Curse of the Black Widow

Higbie eventually gets in touch with a former bartender who saw one of the murders, who tells him that at least one man was killed by a man-sized black widow spider.

Honey Rider

Honey relates how she got her revenge by putting a black widow spider in his mosquito net and causing his lingering death.

Ice Spiders

When she turns to leave, the last spider remaining at the lab, a mutated Black Widow, attacks her and forces her into a locked office.

Linda Calvey

She was known as the "Black Widow" because all of her lovers ended up either dead or in prison.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni

Since 2000, the base has killed approximately 25,000 Black Widow spiders which apparently came to the base in cargo and luggage of Americans assigned to the base.

Mary Babnik Brown

According to Doug Adams, black widow spider webbing had been tried for the crosshairs, but it could not withstand the variations in temperature to which the bombsight would be exposed.

Spider Widow

Spider Widow is the secret identity of Dianne Grayton, a bored and wealthy athlete who decides to fight crime and foreign saboteurs after discovering she has the ability to control deadly black widow spiders.

Tanner Trail

The most dangerous and venomous of these animals are the black widow spider, the Arizona bark scorpion, and the rattlesnake.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The killer put a deadly black widow spider inside a gelatin capsule, secretly attached it to the victim's body, and waited for the gelatin to melt from body heat, releasing the spider.


Steatoda grossa

Unlike black widows, redbacks, and other Latrodectus species, S. grossa does not have a bright red hourglass pattern or any other bright markings.


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