Have you ever found a spider crouching in a corner of your house and wondered how many more were lurking nearby? It’s not a pleasant thought, but the truth is, spiders are some of the most abundant ...

No matter how much you despise the existence of spiders, nature has ensured they are present in every corner of the world. Here we list where you can expect to find tarantula spiders. If you’ve ever ...

My feelings about spiders were the opposite of those old Wild West posters: I didn’t want them dead or alive. I didn’t even want them imaginary; I had been known to close books and flip over ...

From the cobwebs that drape the corners of our basements to the webs spun gracefully in our gardens, spiders are ubiquitous ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.” By Kate Golembiewski An abandoned gunpowder storage shed ...

The name “brown recluse” conjures up nightmarish visuals for a majority of the population, and not only for those who have arachnophobia. This unique spider is found in 16 states, most of which are in ...

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Spiders might cause some fear among arachnophobes, with their unusually high number of legs and scuttling way of moving, however, new research has found that they don't need all eight limbs to get ...

Welcome to the Top 10 Deadliest Spiders. There are assessed to be north of 46,000 types of spiders alive today, extending their eight legs the whole way across the world – in each landmass and nation ...

A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become ...