Close up of a brown recluse spider's face. The brown recluse spider is the most common and widespread of the brown spiders, but it is usually found only in the South and Central United States. It is a ...

Spiders might make you shiver, but they’re also some of the most fascinating creatures out there. With their intricate webs and mind-blowing survival skills, these eight-legged wonders do way more ...

Some scientists say, fear of spiders is a self-preservation response that’s hard-wired, genetically in us. Others theorise it’s social conditioning passed on through learned behaviour, such as a child ...

The hobo spider is a funnel-building spider. In the past, people believed its bite and venom were dangerous. However, scientists now believe this is not the case, and symptoms of a hobo spider bite ...

BOSTON — Ever since a Joro spider was recently photographed on Beacon Hill, Jessica Garb has been fielding calls from people who’ve seen similar arachnids in Massachusetts. One person in Amherst was ...

Black widows — infamous for their neurotoxic venom — are dirt-common in the West and are one of the survey’s most frequently sent-in spiders. Of the more than 42,000 known spider species worldwide, ...

Portia is capable of planning a route through the 3-dimensional vegetation that allows it to approach its chosen victim from ...

Spiders are often treated as simple ambush predators, reacting only to what touches a web or wanders too close. Research over ...

Researchers looked at thousands of spider news stories to study how sensationalized information spreads. Their findings could be broadly applicable. By Oliver Whang We live in a world filled with ...