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Some of the more common spiders in the Kamloops and Okanagan regions are the shiny black widows, the tiny jumping spiders, ...
A small and once-overlooked spider has left scientists baffled with a novel method of killing that goes against the spider's grain. The feather-legged lace weaver spider doesn't bite and isn't ...
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Animal Care Services said a young spider monkey was discovered wandering a northwest-side neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. ACS said the approximately six-month-old ...
The video was captured June 7 in Austin, Texas (Credit: Jamie York Pillans/TMX) Greg Abbott to sign Texas property tax bill: What to know Investigators recover cockpit voice recorder from crashed ...
Yet that predation-by-silk-and-toxic-barf turns out to be exactly how the spider called a feather-legged lace weaver (Uloborus plumipes) kills its meals. Zancolli and colleagues describe the novel ...
Orb-weavers spin some spectacular webs, some being more than three feet in diameter! There are more than 3,000 different orb weaver species. Many of them are brightly colored with yellow, blue and red ...
The cephalothorax combines the head and thorax into one body segment. Compared to the cephalothorax, the abdomen is usually the larger part of a spider’s body. The abdomen contains much of a spider’s ...
In fact, Texas is home to over 900 species of arachnids according to Bug Tech. That's a lot and if you hate spiders, you probably don't want to think about all those different type of spiders that ...
Texas is home to a diverse population of spiders, including the American house spider, wolf spider, brown recluse spider, black widow spider, jumping spider, and many more. With over 900 species of ...