How do you treat a spider bite and what are the symptoms to look out for? - With a rising number of people going to hospital ...

Beautifully weird and astonishingly intricate. And the banana spiders of South Carolina are no exception. An encounter with a golden orb weaver or a Banana Spider. Take a closer look. One of your ...

From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, ...

Little did they know they were in for what Shamble says was “a huge surprise”: the strength of this spiders’ silk parallels—and even surpasses—that of most orb weaver spiders, which produce the ...

It acts like Velcro, sticking to the legs and bristles of captured insects.' A member of the Araneidae family, the garden orb-weaver or garden cross spider (Araneus diadematus) is probably the ...

Dominating this picture, a giant orb-weaving spider, (Mongolarachne jurassica) having spun a web amongst the Ginko baiera twigs, has just caught a giant cicada (Palaeontinodes reshuitangensis).

A small spider with pale body and legs and silver-grey markings on the abdomen. It is usually found around the outside of houses and gardens, and is particularly common around windows. Because of ...