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Over the last few years, the number of known eclipsing radio millisecondpulsar systems in the Galactic field has dramatically increased, with manybeing associated with Fermi gamma-ray sources. All are in tight binaries(orbital period < 24 hr) with many being classical "black widows" which havevery low mass companions (companion mass Mc << 0.1 Msol) but some are"redbacks" with low mass (Mc ~ 0.2 - 0.4Msol) companions which are probablynon-degenerate. These latter are systems where the mass transfer process mayhave only temporarily halted, and so are transitional systems between low massX-ray binaries and ordinary binary millisecond pulsars. Here we review the newdiscoveries and their multi-wavelength properties, and briefly discuss modelsof shock emission, mass determinations, and evolutionary scenarios.

Surrounded by Spiders! New Black Widows and Redbacks in the Galactic Field