Sentences with phrase «brown widow spiders»
Although the common name «black widow spider» is most commonly used to refer to the three North American species best known for their dark coloration and red hourglass pattern, it is occasionally also applied to several other members of the Latrodectus (widow spider) genus in which there are 31 recognized species including the Australian red - back, brown widow spider (sometimes called the gray widow), and the red widow spider.
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One is a black widow and one is a brown widow spider.
Not exact matches
The result is an increase in ticks, brown recluse spiders and black widow spiders, all serious health hazards for both pets and humans, she added.
«But, because there were no medically important spiders in Tahiti before the brown widow showed up, and because this new colonizer is there and has «widow» as part of its name, people are going to overreact.
The scientists also use molecular biology tools to compare the genomes of spiders that have extremely noxious venoms, including the black widow and the brown recluse, to those of spiders with non-poisonous venoms, such as the house spider.
(Legend: Purple, black widow; yellow, yellow sac; red, hobo spider; green, brown recluse; blue, other recluses)
Do you think a pet may have encountered a poisonous critter like a rattlesnake, black widow spider, brown recluse spider, scorpion, or other poisonous creature?