Pest Trends: Brown Widow Knows How to Deal with Unusual Prey
Dr. Hanif Gulmahamad, BCE, PCA
Latrodectus geometricus is also known as the brown widow spider, gray spider, geometric button spider, brown button spider and the house button spider. Discovered by C.L. Koch in 1841, it was originally described from specimens taken in South America. However, this species is now generally believed to be endemic to Africa. Latrodectus is a Greek […]
