The redback spider's scientific name is Latrodectus hasselti. This black spider with a red back is part of the widow spider ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

The wolf spider does not deserve fear, loathing and hatred. The spider can be heroic, and it is the official arachnid of the ...

Pholcus phalangioides, commonly known as the cellar spider or daddy long-legs spider, is an established species found ...

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The surprising battle between a cellar spider and a wasp ends with the wasp losing. Find out more here about cellar spider ...

Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

These are top five ways to deter and keep out spiders from the basement before they move in this fall, according to pest pros ...

The Electronic Atlas of the Wildlife of British Columbia reports a whopping 859 species of spider confirmed in B.C. What’s ...

Daniel Rosengren, a wildlife photographer whose lens has captured some of the most breathtaking moments in nature, has called ...

Though these webs make for delightful dawn photos, I’m not so sure that the spiders appreciate the fog and dew.