BACKGROUND Nowadays use of specific antivenin for latrodectism is considered as the most effective treatment in the world. This study was undertaken to investigate the efficacy of specific antivenom against histopathological complications caused by Latrodectus dahli venom on liver, heart and kidneys tissues within 72h. METHODS Two groups were selected, each one contained 6 male New Zealand ra...

background:   due to importance and fatal affect of red-back spiders, latrodectus hasselti , a f a unistic survey for presence of this spider in bandar abbas has been conducted. this animal is considerably the most medically importance spiders all over the world. methods: live adult spider specimens were collected from bandar abbas town using hand catch conventional method and transferred to th...

Scorpions are generalist predators, capturing a great variety of arthropods including even small vertebrates (Polis, 1990), however, they are also subject to predation, especially by vertebrates such as amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals (Polis et al., 1981; McCormick and Polis, 1990). Regarding the invertebrates, there are reports of predation by coleopterans, chilopods, solpugids, others...