From their unique vision to fascinating hunting techniques, find answers to your most frequently asked spider questions.

This is a large and diverse family of spiders, with about 4,000 species worldwide. Adult bold jumper spiders can have beautiful, bright green or blue, iridescent mouth parts. (Photo credit ...

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With so many species with so many mad skills — spitting spiders actually project toxic silk to capture and incapacitate their ...

Most people can tend to a jumping spider bite at home with simple first aid. If you are not sure what their bites look like, ...

Wolf spiders are a family of mostly large, hairy and athletic arachnids. There are nearly 2,400 species of wolf spider that are found all over the world. These spiders get their name from the way ...

After losing the final home game of their August homestand to fall to 19-99, the Spiders went back on the road. On Sept. 18, in Washington, they snapped a season-worst 24-game losing streak ...

Joro spiders have ballooned their way to Pennsylvania just in time for the spooky Halloween season. Six of the giant, brightly colored arachnids, first spotted in Georgia almost a decade ago, were ...

5, according to Joro Watch, an interactive monitoring program developed by the University of Georgia's Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. The area where the spiders ballooned is ...

They are predators, they eat insects and other spiders. They don’t spin webs. Instead, they make little silken shelters under leaves or bark. All species are small. They hunt during the day.

Since then, Jorō spiders have spread in all directions at about 10 miles per year, according to a 2022 Penn State study. At that rate, the species was estimated to naturally reach Southeastern ...

Restoring damaged ecosystems through species reintroduction is a key way conservationists work to reverse the harm of human influence on the environment. The fen raft spider, in particular ...