Finding an unexpected eight-legged visitor scurrying across your living room floor easily disrupts a quiet evening at home.

A spider on the wall usually sets off the same little drama. A glass comes down, a piece of paper slides underneath, and someone carries the animal to the yard as if they are correcting a mistake. It ...

Spiders are not the houseguests most people welcome. They crawl into corners, set up sticky traps of webbing, and have a way of appearing at the exact moment you don't want them to. While some will ...

My partner held a photography workshop at our house a couple of weeks ago. This involved 27 people stalking our native wildflower and vegetable gardens in search of prey for their cameras. One of the ...

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, scientists have identified a spider that looks almost exactly like aparasitic fungus. First spotted ...