The sight of this spider's spiky egg sacs in doorways, window sills or near webs. A confirmed sighting of a brown widow spider itself. Look for the telltale orange hourglass shape and an overall ...

Georgia is home to several spider species, and some are venomous. What do they look like? How dangerous are they? What to do ...

A relative of the black widow, the brown widow has lighter ... Southern house spiders are nocturnal hunters, feeding on insects that wander into their webs. Bites are very rare and are generally ...

The brown widow spider has a distinctive hourglass-shaped mark on its belly that is tan or orange in colour. Photo: TNS A poisonous spider, once confined to Africa, is slowly spreading around the ...

These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs. Spiderlings disperse soon after they leave their eggs, but the web remains. Black widow spiders also use ...

Because of their superficial resemblance to false widow spiders (Steatoda sp ... The legs are dark brown with light brown bands. The markings are somewhat variable. Its webs seem at first classic orb ...

Steatoda nobilis, the noble false widow spider. Males can reach up to 10mm in size. They have reddish-orange legs and a brown bulbous body with cream-coloured markings. The females are larger - up to ...

A relative of the black widow, the brown widow has lighter ... Southern house spiders are nocturnal hunters, feeding on insects that wander into their webs. Bites are very rare and are generally ...