As undesirable as it might be, we're pretty much surrounded by spiders at all times, and if the arachnids' generally unsettling appearance wasn't enough to make that a vertiginous thought, consider ...

Have you ever heard of a spider that eats its own web? Chances are, you probably haven’t, but that is what Darwin’s bark spider is famous for. These spiders eat their own silk to produce more later, ...

A giant, yellow, venomous flying spider with 4-inch legs sounds like a creature out of a nightmare, but they're already infiltrating some parts of the Eastern U.S. New Jersey Pest Control, the pest ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) — EEK! If you are not a fan of spiders — this story may not be for you. But if you can appreciate the powerful role these tiny predators play in nature, then this arachnid is ...

A subgroup of air-breathing, terrestrial (land) arthropods, spiders are not actually insects but rather belong to the Class Arachnida (a.k.a. arachnid). Besides spiders, other arachnids include ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...

So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing spiders. Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? According to experts, no, we ...

Shrubbery, toolsheds, basements—these are places one might expect to find spiders. But what about the beach? Or in a stream? Some spiders make their homes near or, more rarely, in water: tucking into ...