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  2. Argiope aurantia - Wikipedia

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    The spider makes a frame with several more radial lines and then fills the center with a spiral of silk, leaving a 7.9–9.5 mm (0.31–0.37 in) gap between the spiral rings, starting with the innermost ring and moving outward in a clockwise motion. To ensure that the web is taut, the spider bends the radial lines slightly together while ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 red, yellow, and on rare occasions, white.

  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. What to Know About the Giant Venomous Flying Spiders ... - AOL

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    Joro spiders are large, venomous spiders with four-inch long legs, ... A Joro spider is also unlikely to end up inside your home, Davis says. “They do not go into homes,” he says. “They’re ...

  7. List of medically significant spider bites - Wikipedia

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    The Australian funnel-web spiders (family Atracidae), such as the Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus (a mygalomorph spider, not to be confused with the araneomorph funnel-weaver or grass spiders) are regarded as among the most venomous in the world. They react vigorously to threats and, reputedly, will more often attempt to bite than run away.

  8. Poisonous brown recluse spiders are coming out of hiding for ...

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    Brown recluse spiders, or Loxosceles reclusas, are roughly the size of a quarter with their legs extended, and experts say the shy arachnid usually prefers to hide in dry, dark places, where there ...

  9. Latrodectus - Wikipedia

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    Latrodectus is a broadly distributed genus of spiders with several species that are commonly known as the true widows.This group is composed of those often loosely called black widow spiders, brown widow spiders, and similar spiders.