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July 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THURSDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) — What’s bad news for the
black widow spider may be good news for California homeowners: The
less-toxic brown variety appears to be taking over.
Although they are relatively new to North America, a new study found
that brown widow spiders may be displacing the black widow spiders that
are native to southern California.
Researchers found the brown widow spider likes to hide outside people’s
homes. They noted, however, that it’s less toxic than the black widow.
In conducting the study, the researchers performed time searches in
various habitats, such as developed parks, urban properties and
undeveloped natural areas to compare the abundance and habitat selection
of the brown widow spider to that of the black widow spider.
Using data collected from 72 sites, the researchers found 20 times as
many brown widows as black widows outside homes, especially under outdoor
furniture and in tiny cracks in walls, fences and other objects. The
researchers noted that none of the spiders was found inside people’s
homes.
“Homeowners would benefit to know about the hiding places of brown
widows, displaying care when placing their hands in nooks and crannies,”
the study’s authors wrote.
Brown widow spiders were first seen in Florida back in 1935, but they
were not documented in southern California until 2003, the researchers
pointed out.
“The brown widows really burst on to the scene in a very short time,
and we found brown widows in many habitats where we expected to find black
widows,” study corresponding author Richard Vetter, of the University of
California, Riverside, said in a Entomological Society of America news
release. “There may be some competition where brown widows are displacing
black widows because there is some habitat overlap. There are also places
where only brown widows were able to make homes, but in other habitats the
black widows still predominate.”
The research was published in the July issue of the Journal of
Medical Entomology.
More information
The University of California, Riverside provides more information on brown
widow spiders.
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