This invasive spiderling is floating its way along the East Coast of the U.S., and scientists are left wondering just how much damage they might cause.

Laurens County, South Carolina – During the classic spooky season plastic spiders greet trick-or- treaters in front yards and ...

Walter Reeves answers question from AJC readers, ranging from the universally fatal rose rosette to spider silk stretching from tree to tree.

A new study from Clemson University, believed to be the first controlled bite study of its kind, tested whether Joro spiders ...

If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake ...

The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

Just in time for Halloween, researchers have identified a new species of trapdoor spider. The newly discovered Aptostichus ...

The new spiders were identified as Aptostichus ramirezae. They're a new type of trapdoor spider, and live in California ...

The other newly discovered species is  Phrynarachne storozhenkoi, found in one of the Malaysian regions of Borneo, and it is ...