A new eight-legged threat is creeping across North America venomous spiders that are expanding their territory with surprising speed. As their numbers rise and habitats shift, scientists and residents ...

While North America is free from the dangerous varieties of funnel-web spiders, it does have funnel weaver spiders which are ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently ...

No, it's a parachuting venomous flying spider! Called Joro spiders, these enormous arachnids have been spreading across North America since the 2010s and are expected to continue making their way ...

It is premature to inject politics into the sudden, aggressive infestation of roving gangs of giant, 6-foot-tall spiders, the likes of which have never been witnessed by mankind in all of existence.

Funnel-web spiders are widespread in North America. Quarter-size with legs outstretched, these spiders attach their webs to everything, whether rocks and grass or human objects. They weave a kind ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Black widows are notorious spiders identified by the colored, hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens. Several species answer to the name, and they are found in temperate regions around the world.

More than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction, the research found. Researchers blame habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change for the problem.