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  2. Latrodectus hesperus - Wikipedia

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    Latrodectus hesperus, the western black widow spider or western widow, is a venomous spider species found in western regions of North America. The female's body is 14–16 mm (1/2 in) in length and is black, often with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the lower abdomen. This "hourglass" mark can be yellow, and on rare occasions, white.

  3. Latrodectus - Wikipedia

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    The ultimate tensile strength and other physical properties of Latrodectus hesperus (western black widow) silk are similar to the properties of silk from orb-weaving spiders that had been tested in other studies. The tensile strength for the three kinds of silk measured in the Blackledge study was about 1,000 MPa.

  4. Latrodectism - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, redback and North American black widows live in proximity with people and several hundred black widow bites are reported to Poison Control in the United States each year. Of the bites reported in the United States from 2001 to 2005, approximately 31% were treated in a health care facility, 0.5% had major complications, and none were ...

  5. How to Safely Remove Poisonous Black Widow Spiders From ... - AOL

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    Latrodectus hesperus, the western black widow. “The northern black widow, Latrodectus variolus, lives in the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada,” Crawford says. These females lack the ...

  6. Latrodectus mactans - Wikipedia

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    Latrodectus mactans, known as southern black widow or simply black widow, and the shoe-button spider, [citation needed] is a venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. The females are well known for their distinctive black and red coloring and for the fact that they will occasionally eat their mates after reproduction.

  7. ‘Black Widow’ who killed 3 lovers for life insurance freed ...

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    A Maryland woman dubbed the “Black Widow” who was suspected of killing two of her ex-husbands and another lover was freed by President Biden on Wednesday in his latest clemency initiative ...

  8. Latrodectus variolus - Wikipedia

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    Latrodectus variolus, the northern black widow spider or northern widow, is a venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus of the family Theridiidae. The population is closely related to the southern black widow, Latrodectus mactans , and the western black widow, Latrodectus hesperus , of the genus.

  9. Why Netflix's new Black-led Western 'The Harder They Fall ...

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    This declaration is seen in the first few seconds of Netflix’s The Harder They Fall — a gun-toting, heist-heavy cowboy movie from Jeymes Samuel that introduces the masses to several Black ...