The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...

If you despise spiders, then you know the struggle seeing these creepy crawlers make their way into homes and gardens during the autumn season. While most types of spiders commonly seen at home are ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

An insect ecology professor at the University of Kentucky explored her research on how bacteria affects spider reproduction during a March 20 lecture. The researcher, Jen White, presented her findings ...

The way gardeners view insects has come a long way in the past few decades. The importance of pollinators and the natural pest control provided by beneficial insects is increasingly recognized as many ...

It is, in fact, impossible to rid an area of spiders for any length of time because new spiders soon recolonise a house if ...

Meet Dr. Hannah Wood, an entomologist at the National Museum of Natural History. Find out how trap-jaw spiders prey on insects using a combination of stealth and power-amplified snapping jaws.

If we can get beyond our fears, spiders, beetles, caterpillars and other creepy-crawlies can make for fine family companions.

What has eight eyes and stalks its prey like a cat? It’s not a weird science fiction monster; only a small, frequently ...