The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an ...
Westminster invertebrate zoo has removed the wall between visitors and orb weaver spiders hoping to catch more people in a ...
Once a spider web has been abandoned, it will start to gather dust and dirt, which is what we’ve come to recognize as a ...
A video shared to TikTok on Feb. 17, 2025, suggested spiders could be more sentient than previously thought. An on-screen text read, "Spiders run at you because they sense danger and think you're ...
There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him. In a better documented ...
A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.” By Kate Golembiewski An abandoned gunpowder storage shed pokes out ...
It's a quiet autumn evening. You're enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider ...