Winter won’t hold forever, and when it comes, a spider will disappear from the corner where she has made her home.

In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge ...

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

And they’ve been spotted in Pennsylvania before. USA Today reports that the Joro spider — those rather large, ...

Mud daubers get their name from their habit of using mud to build their nests, while most wasp species use wood pulp for nest ...

While the Joro spider season, which spans from August to October, is over, these creepy crawlies can still pop up ...

Scientists have discovered two new spiders with truly bizarre camouflage: not only do they look like bird poop, but they ...

This Instagram video shows a praying mantis ambushing and devouring a spider in second, proof that this “praying” insect is one of nature’s stealthiest predators. Discover how mantises hunt, what they ...

Although the word “spider” may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many readers, the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not as icky as one might suppose. Arachnids provide essential services for ...

A massive colony of spiders lives in a giant 1,140-square-foot spider web stretches along a narrow passage inside a cave, and it touches two countries.

For some people, the sight of a spider egg sac is incredibly unsettling. They may be tempted to immediately destroy or remove it from the home, assuming that the progeny that emerges will be dangerous ...