The brown widow spider ... other venomous spiders like the black widow or brown recluse. Despite the confusion, the brown recluse spider is real and, for people who live in southern California ...

In the 1940s, the small, wildflower-studded town of Yucaipa, California, was home to one of the most successful spider silk refineries in the country. There, Nannie “Nan” Songer, a self-taught ...