While a rare few can cause harm, most spiders won't hurt humans, she said. Here's what you need to know if you're frightened of spiders. Recently, I read about a man who went on holiday and said a ...

Although pest control companies may try to sell you their spider-elimination services, spiders themselves are nature’s pest control. They eat harmful insects — and sometimes each other — but are ...

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 ...

With a palm-sized frame and yellow stripes on its back, the Joro spider has become a name that sees your dreams and feasts on your screams after a study concluded the species could soon migrate up the ...

A school in Gloucestershire, in the west of England, was closed for several days due to an “invasion of poisonous spiders”. Experts claimed they were not aggressive, but the school was closed, alarm ...