Don't reach for a shoe the next time you find a spider in your home. Squishing some types of spiders can create even bigger ...

Before you go exploring in your backyard, you should definitely take some precautions because two small yet deadly spiders ...

Common Garden Spiders in North America Looking to learn spider facts, including which spiders are lurking in your garden? The ...

These types of spiders spin circular webs in backyard sunny spots, usually around plants. Female web spinners have more pronounced yellow patches on their black abdomens. After mating, the males die.

As a recovered arachnophobe, I am very familiar with many of the ridiculous spider myths. Spider myths can stem from their ...

A Black Widow spider is seen through a basement window of a home in Arvada, Colorado on Saturday, August 13, 2022. (Photo by Patrick Traylor/The Denver Post) ...

One line in an NPR story caught my attention: During recording sessions, Beck was bitten by a black widow spider, and wound up in the hospital. “My arm was all swollen up,” he told Steve Inskeep.

Black widow spiders can stir primordial fear — they lurk in dark corners and their venom can cause excruciating pain, and in extremely rare occasions, death. But they seem to be no match for ...