Brown Widow
Latrodectus geometricus
Brown widows live around human structures, fences, garden furniture, mailboxes, and sheltered debris in warm regions. They build irregular cobwebs and wait for insects to become tangled before biting and wrapping them. Their diet is mostly small arthropods such as flies, moths, beetles, and other spiders. A notable sign of this species is the spiky, sand-colored egg sac, unlike the smoother sacs of many related widow spiders.
- Type
- Venom
- Conservation status
- NE