Spiders are some of the world’s most misunderstood creatures. These arachnids, which have been around for around 400 million years, consume billions of disease-causing mosquitoes and crop-destroying ...

SO LIVE CHECK OF YOUR TRAFFIC TO GO THIS MORNING. NELSON WAVERLE. OH, SO MANY PEOPLE AFRAID OF THIS. NEXT STORY. EIGHT LEGS. THESE LITTLE SPIDERS. YEAH, SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SUCH A PHOBIA. YEAH, ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

In my previous blog post I described some of the research that has begun to throw light on why so many people appear to be scared of spiders. In particular, there seemed to be a significant link ...