(CNN) -- The next time you see a spider crawling around your house, look at the bright side. It's probably feasting on a bunch of other insects and providing you with free pest control. A new study ...

Two studies released Oct. 22 say the spooky-looking yellow Joro spiders in SC aren't so scary after all, with their bites ...

All the spiders in the world combined annually eat about 440 to 880 million tons of insects and other pests — equal to the weight of more than 85 million elephants, according to a new study. That's a ...

October is not just spooky season but also mating season for spiders, meaning that the creepy crawlers are more prevalent in ...

POTEET, Texas -- We now know what nightmares are made of: huge spiders eating bats! Annette Alaniz Guajardo sent ABC11 photos of the bizarre event that happened at her Poteet, Texas, home Wednesday.

Autumn is spider season, with arachnids becoming adults and males starting looking for a mate. So spiders seen in homes could ...

If you want to watch a spider eat a fish -- and you know you do -- you need to think like a spider. First, go where the water is still: a windless lake, or a bend in a lazy stream. This is where fish ...

There's only one place in the world to escape bat-catching spiders: Antarctica. These arachnids ensnare and pounce on bats everywhere else in the world, researchers say. Bats rank among the most ...

Each summer, the air is filled with what looks like cottonwood down but is really a host of infant spiders, riding the wind on silken parachutes. Thanks to E.B. White's charming story, "Charlotte's ...