Spotting a spider in your home is a less-than-ideal situation. After all, they’re creepy and crawly, and a spider sighting can spark fears that there are more where that one came from. Just know this: ...

If you find a black widow spider in your yard, you'll need to take both practical and preventative measures, as well as steps ...

What happens when an insect touches a spider’s web? Most web-spinning spiders line their silken threads with droplets of glue, which snag blundering insects. But one group—the cribellate spiders—does ...

Assassin bugs live up to their name. The insects expertly stalk and feed upon other small invertebrates, jabbing them with a venomous proboscis. Some species even hunt spiders and use a strange trick ...

Brown recluse spiders have a scary reputation, but the truth is more complicated than claims you see online. In Florida, ...

When cockroaches infest a kitchen or bedbugs take over a mattress, human residents notice. But it turns out there are plenty of other six- and eight-legged creatures that more subtly coopt our homes.

Perhaps no arachnid symbolizes what's wrong with many human's perception of spiders better than the garden spider. Beginning now and extending well into the fall is the time yellow garden spiders are ...

They crawl and click, buzz and bombard, twitch and twist. Some study them, some are just irritated by them and some are so fearful that they overturn furniture, jump on countertops and scream for help ...

We can call this newly discovered spider another brick—or web—in the wall. Scientists in Colombia named the new species ...

Maybe it is because my name is Charlotte and I grew up on a farm, but I have always had an affinity for spiders. I realize not everyone shares this attraction, but here's some news that may help you ...