Black widow spiders are a scary site and the venomous females bite when threatened. You'll need to gear up and use this ...

Spiders are one of the easiest groups of invertebrates to watch and they're fascinating creatures. Here are some of our ...

Two brightly colored spiders face each other on a dried grass stem, connected by a thin strand of silk. Their vivid bodies ...

The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the ...

Two spider species have developed a remarkable defense mechanism by crafting decoys resembling larger spiders.

If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake cobwebs and horror movies depict giant spiders hunting humans or creeping around ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for many, the celebrations conjure up images of two specific animals: spiders and ...

A silver Argiope spider in a spiderweb with stabilimenta. Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons When imagining a spider web, chances are most people envision a typical spiral, wheel-shaped ...

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Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning spiraling strands to snag prey. In the mornings, the intricately laid silk ...

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