A woman was forced to have surgery on her finger after what she thought was a spot turned out to be a false widow spider bite. Crystal Rudd, 28, first noticed a painful pimple on her finger on 25 ...

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A number of schools in east London have been forced to close for up to a month after false widow spider infestations were discovered. Rokeby School in Newham was among one of at least four to shut ...

Australia may soon be invaded by a spider that scientists have called an "alien monster." The New Zealand false widow spider, a native of the Canary Islands and Madeira in Spain, is an invasive ...

This will get your spidey sense tingling: There’s a type of spider that looks like a black widow—but packs a much less potent bite. False widow spiders resemble their infamous cousins, black widow ...