Adult females are jet black (with a red stripe), whereas juvenile females are generally brown with white markings. Males are normally light brown with white markings, but lack the distinctive red ...

The redback spider (Latrodectus hasseltii, also known as the red-striped spider, red-spot spider, ... We found a spider with a weird red back. "But the bite he got had bled very badly.

The brown widow and red back spiders were recognized as established in Japan in 1995, according to a base news release issued late Tuesday. Twenty-seven brown widow spiders have been found on ...

Dr Worth said there had not been a death from a red-back spider bite since 1956. The female red-back is easily recognisable by her black body and prominent red stripe on the abdomen.

Native to Australia, the red-back spider is one of the few spider species that can be seriously harmful to humans. The female red-back lives in an untidy web, usually in a warm sheltered location.

Red-back spiders are booming in number in Queensland's south-east, with the senior curator of spiders at the Queensland Museum warning people to be on the lookout.

Males are normally light brown with white markings, but lack the distinctive red stripe. Female redback spider ( Latrodectus hasselti ). Laurence Grayson/Wikimedia Commons ...

Brown widow and Red back spiders also have been found in small numbers on the base, officials said. Iwakuni began a battle to eradicate the western black widow spiders from the facility several ...