I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral ...

A subgroup of air-breathing, terrestrial (land) arthropods, spiders are not actually insects but rather belong to the Class Arachnida (a.k.a. arachnid). Besides spiders, other arachnids include ...

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing ...

Spiders are quite literally all around us. A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 percent of them, including 68 percent of bathrooms and more than ...

Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. They have a fearsome reputation and will prey on a variety of insects, ranging from wasps to silverfish. Although sun spiders ...

You may have heard about some not-so-itsy-bitsy venomous flying spiders that can soar with the winds, love to eat butterflies and are already appearing along the East Coast. They're called Joro ...

Shrubbery, toolsheds, basements—these are places one might expect to find spiders. But what about the beach? Or in a stream? Some spiders make their homes near or, more rarely, in water: tucking into ...

Excited for the joro spider invasion?! Well if you’re an arachnophobe, this probably isn’t for you. But if you’re interested in wildlife and nature, you may have a chance to watch the large black and ...

Arachnophobes, look away — there's a giant invasive spider that could be coming to the tri-state this summer. Joro spiders could start showing up in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware this summer, ...

Joro spiders, those scary-looking critters that can apparently fly through the air when their giant webs are lifted by the wind, have been making big headlines in recent weeks — mainly because of ...

Arachnophobes, look away — there's a giant invasive spider that has reportedly arrived in the the tri-state area. Earlier this year, experts warned that Joro spiders could start showing up in ...