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 relates how she got her revenge by putting a black widow spider in his mosquito net and causing his lingering death.
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.
She was known as the "Black Widow" because all of her lovers ended up either dead or in prison.
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.
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 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.
The most dangerous and venomous of these animals are the black widow spider, the Arizona bark scorpion, and the rattlesnake.
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.
Unlike black widows, redbacks, and other Latrodectus species, S. grossa does not have a bright red hourglass pattern or any other bright markings.