Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti): A black widow cousin that mostly lives in Australia, New Zealand, Belgium and Japan. Red Widow Spider (Latrodectus bishopi): The red-legged widow currently ...

In this interview, Andrade talks about spending months on end in the Australian outback peering into the nocturnal lives of redback spiders (one of about 20 species in the "black widow" genus ...

Another type of false widow spider, the cupboard species, also resembles the deadly redback (sans the red stripe on the back) ...

“We're lucky actually in Australia, there's really only one spider we're particularly worried about and that's the funnel-web. Although there's a lot of talk about redback spiders being ...