While Hollywood and urban legends paint dramatic tales about spider bites, medical professionals share a fascinating reality: ...

Arachnophobia, or the fear of spiders, is one of the most common specific phobias. Arachnophobia affects between 2.7 and 6.1 percent of the global population. That doesn't seem like a lot ...

Almost all of us will have seen spiders in our homes - perhaps walking across the lounge floor, stuck in the bath, or quietly sitting in a ceiling corner. Several species share our living spaces, some ...

Black widows are notorious spiders identified by the colored, hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens. Several species answer to the name, and they are found in temperate regions around the world.

Season: These spiders are usually seen in the autumn months when males leave their webs in search of females. They frequently enter homes through open windows, chimneys or gaps beneath doors. A large ...

Few North and Central American spiders are more eye-catching that the yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia). Yellow garden ...

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1904), pp. 261-323 (66 pages) ...

A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland cave turning them into The Last of Us -style “ zombies ”. At such a critical ...