Brown recluse spiders are venomous, but their bites typically only cause blistering or swelling that subsides after about a ...

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, about 25 miles southeast of Hiroshima, has faced a growing infestation of invasive spider ...

The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on ...

Spider may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many, but the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not as icky as one might ...

Of all the creeping, crawling critters that potentially pose problems for humans, spiders occupy a special niche. Unlike the biting, stinging pests such as hornets, wasps, snakes, and ticks that ...

Over the course of several months, researchers discovered and eliminated more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders in the ...

The Australian funnel-web spider is the largest known male of its kind collected by a member of the public foe the Australian Reptile Park A spider named after a mythological hero recently set a ...

Poisonous Spiders of South Carolina originally appeared on Dengarden. In case you don't know, almost all spiders are capable of producing venomous bites. But in South Carolina, there are really only ...

Spiders in this toxic sulfur cave have built a thriving spider metropolis and the largest spider web complex in the world!

Louisiana is home to numerous different species of spiders, since the state's warm climate and diverse landscape makes for the perfect environment for the arachnids. While most spiders in Louisiana ...

Not only is this extraordinary spider an entirely new species previously unknown to science, but it is half male and half ...

Backyards can harbor venomous creatures like scorpions, snakes, and spiders, which typically avoid humans and play vital ...