Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

Ravenous Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders -- vampire spiders -- have very specific tastes: they prefer to dine on blood-engorged female Anopheles mosquitoes. So how do they pick out female Anopheles ...

For some people, the sight of a spider egg sac is incredibly unsettling. They may be tempted to immediately destroy or remove it from the home, assuming that the progeny that emerges will be dangerous ...

Spiders in general get a bad rap, but only a select few of them in the US are actually dangerous. This graphic gives you a clear picture of what the dangerous ones actually look like, tells you where ...

Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders, also known as vampire spiders, are picky eaters by any standards. Explaining that the arachnid's environment is swamped with insects, Ximena Nelson from the ...

FALSE widows have been described as the ‘most dangerous spider in Britain’. They’re often confused with deadly black widow spiders, as they have a similar dark ...