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Brown widow spiders are swarming Israel
Spiders of the brown widow species, scientifically called Latrodectus geometricus, are prevalent across several continents and have been discovered to harbor a strain of Rhabdochlamydia—a bacterium from a group that includes pathogens affecting humans and …