Oklahoma remains a high concern state because Oklahoma State University limits medical concern to two spiders, the brown ...

It already exists in the natural world. Now, thanks to breakthroughs in genetic engineering, scientists have created ...

Homes often shelter multiple spider species, some of which are capable of inflicting painful or medically significant bites.

Whether in the basement or the shed–there’s almost always a corner where that one spider lurks. Is it always the same one? And: How old do spiders actually get? PETBOOK editor and biologist Saskia ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the spider that built them. Watching flies or moths struggle helplessly in silk ...

How many spiders are in my house? Pest control companies will often give a figure of 40 spiders in an average house, but it's hard to find anything in the published literature that directly backs this ...

Step aside, Van Gogh. Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival. New research shows that several orb-weaving species construct giant web-mounted “doppelgängers” convincing enough to ...

A black widow spider can be identified by the red hourglass on its belly. Photo licensed by Creative Commons. Spiders can sometimes be dangerous in weird ways. At a Michigan gas station in 2015, a man ...

Of the over 4,000 known species of wasps in California, two are known as mud daubers: Sceliphron caementarium (black and yellow mud dauber) and Chalybion californicum (blue mud dauber). Mud daubers ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

For America’s cranberry producers, autumn is showtime. That’s when the fruits of their labor take center stage on holiday tables and Instagram feeds everywhere: cranberry cocktails, cranberry-studded ...