The inclinations that have, repeatedly, caused spiders to evolve the ability to balloon also make spiders difficult livestock ...

A large, brightly colored invasive species called the Joro spider is on the move in the United States. Populations have been growing in parts of the South and East Coast for years, and many ...

And not only do they not bite or sting people, but they “are not venomous in any way” – never mind being the most venomous ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly; "'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy." English poet Mary Howitt's "The Spider and the Fly" doesn't ...

So I'm thinking we've all seen a spider spinning a web at some point - probably a web that functions as a kind of barrier to ensnare unsuspecting insects. Turns out another kind of spider uses its web ...

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum (a dogbane species native to Japan ...