Perhaps the most feared spider in North America, the black widow spider is famous for its potentially deadly bite. But how ...

Black widow bites can cause severe illness, which can be treated with horse-derived antibody sera. This method, however, is not entirely safe. To change this, researchers have generated fully human ...

'False widow spider bit me while I slept after crawling through open window at night' Rob Bendelow said the horrifying ordeal left him in 'excruciating' pain with a wound the size of a 50 pence piece ...

A desperate dad is warning Brits to be careful around false widows after being hospitalised by what he believes was a bite from a spider. Rob Bendelow was staying at his partner's house in Wigan when ...

The former handyman then began researching his mysterious mark and discovered he was bitten by what he believes is a false widow spider - whose bites produce necrosis of the flesh.

A desperate dad is warning Brits to be careful around false widows as he was hospitalised after performing DIY surgery on an agonising spider bite.