Do black widow spiders die when they bite a person?
No: 1) “Spiders are predatory animals that consume other animals (including other spiders) for food. For the vast majority of spider species, biting (and injection of venom) is the way the spiders subdue their prey; the spiders will use their venom to paralyze or kill their victims, often consuming them later. Spiders also use biting as a defensive mechanism, though the primary purpose of spider venom is to capture food.” Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_bite 2) “Although it is widely believed that a worker honey bee can sting only once, this is a partial misconception: although the sting is in fact barbed so that it lodges in the victim’s skin, tearing loose from the bee’s abdomen and leading to its death in minutes, this only happens if the victim is a mammal (or bird). The bee’s sting evolved originally for inter-bee combat between members of different hives, and
