The large and brightly colored Joro spider is easily noticeable. Native to Southeast Asia and Japan, the eight-legged spawn ...

The invasive Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) is endemic to East Asia. It was first discovered in the U.S. in North ...

Repelling spiders is just one of the many ways you can use peppermint essential oil in your home. While the methodical research is limited, entomologists have found success with mint oil as a ...

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 ...

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While you might think that we've learned all we need to from feeding spiders illegal drugs, people working at NASA in the ...

The Tetragnatha spider stretches its legs to become nearly invisible. Learn how this clever behavior helps it hunt and survive near water.

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 ...

Your unique spider probably doesn’t need any extra help to stand out from the crowd, but if you want to give your pet spider an additional edge, we’ve got plenty of radically cool and creepy ...

Most spider bites only cause minor symptoms, like red skin, swelling, and pain at the site. You can tell you’ve encountered a spider bite because you’ll be able to see faint puncture marks in ...

Nephila web (Golden Silk Orb-Weaver). Image via Openverse. While the headline-grabbing aspect of spider silk is its superior strength-to-weight ratio compared to steel, the comparison goes much deeper ...