Brian Smith, 43, from Maidstone in Kent, was forced to stay in hospital for three weeks after the spider plunged its fangs ...

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an ...

Georgia is home to several spider species, and some are venomous. What do they look like? How dangerous are they? What to do ...

A team of scientists led by The University of Western Australia has discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in the ...

There upwards of 3,700 species of spiders in the United States, and more than 500 of these live in Illinois, according to the ...

While most spiders in the home ... larger than males. Female black widows are glossy black, featuring a red hourglass pattern on the underside of their rounded abdomen. Conversely, males are ...

and a yellow-orange hourglass marking on its abdomen. The bite is neuropathic like the black widow, but it generally does not ...

and a yellow-orange hourglass marking on its abdomen. The bite is neuropathic like the black widow, but it generally does not spread, so it’s painful but not life threatening. These spiders are ...