Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

Spiders are beneficial to the environment. Fear of these insects is common, but—believe it or not—most spiders cannot hurt humans. However, the brown recluse spider is a dangerous exception. The ...

Brown recluse spiders (aka fiddleback spiders) are fairly easy to identify with their dark, violin-shaped marking that is found behind their eyes. They like quiet, undisturbed places such as basements ...

Black widow spiders, scientific name Latrodectus mactans, are among the most venomous of all arachnids. They are found in North America, and their bite can be fatal in some cases. If you found a ...

If you fear black widow spiders, you're not alone. Knowing how to identify one can help you to take the right course of action in the event of a sighting.

More stories about creepy-crawly (or buzzing) pests and what to do about them. Perhaps no species frightens people more than the spider. The eight-legged arachnids is so universally terrifying that ...

While roughly 3,000 species of spiders are found throughout the U.S., very few pose a direct threat to humans. Spider bites are rare, and medically significant incidents are even less common, ...

In case you don't know, almost all spiders are capable of producing venomous bites. But in South Carolina, there are really only two species of spider that you have to worry about. They are the deadly ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (CBS/AP) — There are more creepy-crawlies than previously known in Maine. The Maine Forest Service's newly released Checklist of Maine Spiders identifies 677 different species of ...