There are some seriously beautiful spiders in the world, but the species we currently have a crush on is Eresus rubrocephalus ...

Mar. 12—With researchers saying a large spider native to East Asia may spread to much of the East Coast, a local ecologist says we have nothing to fear. "I hope that people will keep an open mind ...

Cobwebs have carpeted large areas in the eastern Victorian region of Gippsland. They're the result of millions of spiders escaping flooding in the region, a senior entomology curator told The Guardian ...

ATLANTA — Not everyone would welcome a web of giant spiders outside their front door — but for Lee Guthrie, it’s a sight he’s grown to love. To the right of his porch, several Joro spiders have built ...

This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

The Joro spider has drawn all sorts of reaction on social media The colorful spider's leg length is 6-to-8 inches, but only females get that big The spiders may not just crawl up the East Coast – it's ...

While I am a big fan of spiders year-round, now is the time of year when I truly appreciate their presence in my yard as they stalk their herbivorous insect prey. One of the most beautiful spiders I ...

Humans have a love-hate relationship with spiders. They’re creepy, have too many legs, and we don’t want them anywhere near us, but yet, if they’re off in the corner of a room trapping flies and ...

It may be September in North Georgia, but it looks more like Halloween. Millions of palm-sized Joro spiders have suspended themselves in three-dimensional golden webs on porches, power lines and ...

This cross section through the head of a jumping spider shows off the interior structure of four of its eight eyes. Jumping spiders have the most acute vision of any terrestrial invertebrate. In fact, ...