·Some
facts about Black Widows
·Black widow spiders can be found in temperate regions around the world, and they are feared for their poisonus bite, which can be mortal. The infection this spiders create on us when they bit us is extremely disgusting.
·Black widow spiders can be found in temperate regions around the world, and they are feared for their poisonus bite, which can be mortal. The infection this spiders create on us when they bit us is extremely disgusting.
·A
weird fact about these spiders is that the female black widow can be
twice as big as the male. Furthermore, the female eats the male after
killing it.
·The
spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with
hundreds of eggs. They also use their webs to trap prey such as
flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, beetles and caterpillars.
·The
Black Widow spider is the most venomous spider in North America.
·Latest
discoveries
Spiders
can be identified from the DNA they leave on webs, say US scientists.
They have also said that the analysis of genetic material stuck to
spiders webs also reveals what they have eaten weeks after catching
their prey.
Experts
claim that the research may have future uses in monitoring endangered
species or tracking fown spider nets.
The
lead researcher, Charles Xu, was able to extract mitochondrial DNA
from the webs of this spiders, which were specifically kept at
Potawatomi Zoo in Indiana. This was a great discovery.
He
then discovered that both spider species and its prey can be
identified from DNA spider web samples.
·Black
Widow spiders' structure
·Where
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