Spiders are prolific. There are 45,000 species of spiders that we currently know of, and scientists estimate that there are twice that amount we haven’t discovered yet. They range massively in size ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past few months, there has been much fear surrounding the Japanese joro spider. There has also been much misconception.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs are real, and they're going to potentially invade the New York area sometime this ...

Joro spiders (Trichonephila clavata) first arrived in the U.S. over a decade ago, and they've since become known for building ...

One of the quintessential images of Halloween just might be spiders: huge black, crouching, fanged spiders, ready to jump out from a shadowy webbed corner and bite! But as gardeners, should we view ...

Mention spiders to people and many get the heebie-jeebies. Are they good? Are they bad? Are some good, and some bad? What role do they play in our world, other than evoking panic in many people? In ...

Jumping spiders are an obsession for me. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, finding them in a matter of minutes used to be easy, says ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

In my previous blog post I described some of the research that has begun to throw light on why so many people appear to be scared of spiders. In particular, there seemed to be a significant link ...

Spiders in your home can be unnerving, but there are DIY strategies and professional solutions to get rid of them.