A 37-year-old woman from California became ill after grinding up a black widow spider and then intentionally injecting ...

The structure of a tetrameric form of the spider neurotoxin, α-latrotoxin, has been determined by single particle cryo-electron microscopy. It reveals a pore complex with extended arms that could ...

Notably, when a black widow bites, it injects a very low volume of venom. Because the woman ground up the whole spider, she may have exposed herself to a dose orders of magnitude higher than is ...

Next, the researchers tested to see if black widows can control how much venom they deliver in a bite. The spiders were presented with three targets in succession — vials that would collect thei ...

The black widow spider can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Its venom is toxic and painful, leaving victims to feel the effects long after the bite. Following is a transcript of the ...

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This spider's bite is much feared because its venom is reported to be 15 times ... The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders.

An curved arrow pointing right. The black widow spider can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Its venom is toxic and painful, leaving victims to feel the effects long after the bite.