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Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren’t ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Spotting a spider in your immediate vicinity can be a little intense, especially if you have a major fear of the creepy crawlers. And, when one shows up in your home, it can be downright freaky. With ...

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 ...

Get ready for flying spiders the size of your palm. They could be coming to your neighborhood soon. Joro spiders have been rapidly spreading across the southeast US, and are now moving north. Though ...

Joro spiders, the East Asian species that is creeping across the eastern U.S., are notable for their willingness to build three- to 10-foot webs in busy suburban and urban areas. Now researchers find ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pill bugs. When you ...