“These false widows are very dark-colored but with a brownish or purplish tint, not black like a licorice jelly bean,” Crawford says. “They have no red mark on the underside but often have ...

The false widow ... have a black body and legs, with a characteristic midline pattern on their abdomen: triangles or chevrons running down the middle. Both these and the band at the front of the ...

Reports of false widow spiders continue to rise. The term false widow actually describes several species of spider, but the one that gains the most attention is Steatoda nobilis, the noble false widow ...