For over five years, a Kansas family unknowingly lived with thousands of brown recluse spiders, one of North America’s most ...

Brown recluse spiders are venomous, but their bites typically only cause blistering or swelling that subsides after about a ...

Poisonous Spiders of South Carolina originally appeared on Dengarden. In case you don't know, almost all spiders are capable of producing venomous bites. But in South Carolina, there are really only ...

Of all the creeping, crawling critters that potentially pose problems for humans, spiders occupy a special niche. Unlike the biting, stinging pests such as hornets, wasps, snakes, and ticks that ...

News that a venomous spider is expanding its territory can be concerning. No one wants to be a victim of a potentially life-threatening spider bite. However, in nearly every state in the US, there is ...

When you see a spider in your house, stop and think before you kill it. Spiders do more good for humans than harm.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, about 25 miles southeast of Hiroshima, has faced a growing infestation of invasive spider ...

Although the word “spider” may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many readers, the true nature of these oft-feared critters is ...

The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on ...