We’ve all heard some variation of this rumor: the average person “eats” eight spiders a year ... “Millions of people have some time or other watched another person sleep; so why don ...

A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle ...

Spiders can give plenty of people a shudder, scream ... "The biggest benefit of spiders in your home is that they eat a variety of insects like mosquitoes, fleas, and ants," says Beninato.

Ant-eating spiders represent a fascinating group of predators that have developed specialized hunting strategies to capture their often dangerous prey. These spiders, particularly from families ...

The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) is a lesser-known relative of the infamous black widow. The first brown widow spider was discovered in Los Angeles in early 2000. A member of the ...

The world's spiders eat 400-800 million tonnes of insects every year - equivalent to the amount of meat and fish that humans consume over the same period, a study said Tuesday. In the first ...

The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the ...