Have you been seeing more venomous spiders in and around your Georgia home lately? Here’s how to identify them and keep them ...

Spiders and scorpions have ruled as terrestrial predators for 400 million years, with their success often attributed to adaptations for life on land.

A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and ...

The bright contrast of yellow and black on a spider may make it look very scary, but most do more good than harm. Here's how to identify friends and foes.

The further south you go, the bigger the bugs. Heat has a dramatic effect on the growth rate of some species, and North ...

In Colombia’s Middle Magdalena region, a patchwork of forest corridors is linking up isolated populations of the critically endangered brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus). Composed of native and ...

Here’s how to identify the brown recluse, along with another common Kansas spider species.

A case report details the story of a family who lived with 2,055 brown recluse spiders in their Kansas home over the course of five and a half years. Spiders have a pretty bad reputation amongst ...

In horror movies, tarantulas and black widow spiders made frequent appearances, but it’s the brown recluse that gives me a real-life jump scare.

The venomous brown recluse spider, whose bite can cause reactions ranging from minor irritation to flesh-killing necrosis and even death, may be finding in Michigan a more comfortable home than ...