Do only the female black widows bite? or do the males bite too?

I was just wondering, I'm assuming they do, because they have to eat somehow right? but then maybe its like mosquitos?

Anyone who has a good picture of a MALE black widow spider or any site that does, please send me the link!

Thank you!

For pictures try:
http://images.google.com/
And type in, "black widow."

Only the female is poisonous; the males and juveniles are not.

Thats what I was wondering- i cant find a picture of a MALE black widow anywhere? they aren't known by a different name are they?

Oh and thanks Minnesota for the info about them being non-poisonous, we have a lot of weird funky looking spiders around here, and I've seen the female ones, but i always got freaked out wondering if maybe the male ones could do that too?

Thanks! I'm still looking though...

Well, chicabird ,round here we call the males black-widowER spiders ! Then we're not too hot on arachnology ( or sociology , come to that). Seriously, it's a myth that Black Widows always kill their mate. They occasionally do so but this is the exception rather than the rule ( www.desert.com has a page on them which so states).
Even then they are by no means unusual among spiders.

One of the commonest that you'll see in any garden or yard is the orb weaver,'the garden cross spider' or one of its numerous relations worldwide. The male drums on the female's web to signal that he's not food;she either chases him off or accepts him; he gets to mate with many females. However come the Autumn (Fall)he is almost certain to get eaten by a female eventually. By then he is redundant and it would be a waste of good nourishment for the female and, of course, the future spiders.

I had an aunt who chose this spider as her emblem.She felt that killing a redundant mate in this way would be a good idea if applied more widely.......

Here are two images of the
rather elusive male black widow.

Image #1

Image #2