Harmless black and yellow garden spiders are common in Texas landscapes and eat nothing but insects. Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers ...

There are about 2,500 kinds of spiders on the North American continent north of Mexico, and thank goodness. Without spiders, we'd be overrun with insects. It is estimated that each year the world's ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

Herbs and essential oils are often touted as spider deterrents, but science tells a more nuanced story about which methods ...

Jennifer Jandt is affiliated with the Entomological Society of New Zealand, a member of the Bug of the Year Committee, and is Editor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Entomologist. University of Otago ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...

In the yards of many Savannah area residents hang filmy sheets and sticky curtains, festooned with insect remains and guarded by colorful eight-legged arthropods. Summer is the peak season for ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)—Spiders devour approximately 800 million tons insects a year, a new study finds. The study was conducted at the University of Basel in Switzerland and University in Sweden.

After a November that was much colder than the usual - The average for November 2014 was 21.8 degrees while normal is 28.4 degrees - we were followed by a December that was also unique, but this time ...

Mothballs only help prevent spiders by keeping one of their food sources (moths) away. Here's how experts actually recommend ...