The sight of even just one brown recluse spider in your house can easily send you into a panic. Those emotions most likely ...

A school in Gloucestershire, in the west of England, was closed for several days due to an “invasion of poisonous spiders”. Experts claimed they were not aggressive, but the school was closed, alarm ...

Hone your backyard spidey sense with spider facts! Learn how to attract garden spiders and why spiders are beneficial.

Spiders have evolved creative strategies to allow them to thrive in habitats across the globe. The one thing that seems to elude them though, is the ability to charm the humans that they encounter.

Although pest control companies may try to sell you their spider-elimination services, spiders themselves are nature’s pest control. They eat harmful insects — and sometimes each other — but are ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...