Brown recluse spiders are venomous, but their bites typically only cause blistering or swelling that subsides after about a ...

Spiders in this toxic sulfur cave have built a thriving spider metropolis and the largest spider web complex in the world!

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, about 25 miles southeast of Hiroshima, has faced a growing infestation of invasive spider ...

Louisiana is home to numerous different species of spiders, since the state's warm climate and diverse landscape makes for the perfect environment for the arachnids. While most spiders in Louisiana ...

Of all the creeping, crawling critters that potentially pose problems for humans, spiders occupy a special niche. Unlike the biting, stinging pests such as hornets, wasps, snakes, and ticks that ...

The Australian funnel-web spider is the largest known male of its kind collected by a member of the public foe the Australian Reptile Park A spider named after a mythological hero recently set a ...

Poisonous Spiders of South Carolina originally appeared on Dengarden. In case you don't know, almost all spiders are capable of producing venomous bites. But in South Carolina, there are really only ...

Daddy-long-legs, which look like spiders with thin legs much longer than their bodies, are generally seen as harmless. But according to many versions of a popular rumor, daddy-long-legs are actually ...

Spider may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many, but the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not as icky as one might ...