Black widow spiders meet their match

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 10:30 in Astronomy & Space

Black widow spiders seem to be universally feared. But who's scared of a brown widow? The black widow should be quaking all eight of its boots, a new study suggests. In the United States, there's a new widow in town. The brown widow. And scientists say it may be taking over some native western black widow territory.

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