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After mating, she usually kills and eats her mate. She's black and now has no 'spouse' so she's a black widow. But it is not any more or less usual for the black widow to eat her mate than it is for other Spiders.

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Black widow spiders are called such because the females eat the males after mating with them.

Immature Black Widows have the same shape as the mature "Widow" but with dramatic color markings. An immature Widow, although much smaller that an adult, can still cause a painful and dangerous bite. As you can see, the characteristic hourglass marking is yellowish, not red, in this young female spider. After mating, the female spider takes on the sinister black with red hourglass coloration.

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because the female eats the male after breeding

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well they have a special gland near their mouth thar makes deadly venoum. then when they bite something little drops of the venoum is injected into the target.

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The name "Black Widow" comes from the spider killing their mate, plus they are black with a red or yellow hourglass.

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Spiders mans enemy

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