/channels/news_feeds/all/term/black%20widow%20spiders/rss en /channels/channels/news/citizen-scientists-show-black-widows-creeping-north-canada-289049 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>To humans, 31 miles may not seem like a very long distance to travel, but for a spider, it’s a long, long way to go. Emily Chung at the CBC reports on a new study that shows that since the 1960s, the northern black widow spider, <em>Latrodectus variolus</em>, has crawled that much further into Canada and may continue skittering northward as the climate changes.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">27 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2018</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:44:59 +0000 webfull 140252 at /channels