One of the most infamous spiders in Colorado, the black widow is easy to recognize by its shiny black body and the red ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

The bite from a brown recluse can be serious, but that doesn't mean it's always life-threatening. This is what to do if you're bitten.

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times ... When it is stuck, the spider does not wait but instead gives the snake a potent venomous bite that paralyzes it. Venom toxins disrupt the ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

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However, there's one good reason why you shouldn't squish any spiders you come across in your home. The first issue is that ...