Black widow spiders, scientific name Latrodectus mactans, are among the most venomous of all arachnids. They are found in North America, and their bite can be fatal in some cases. If you found a ...

Spiders are beneficial to the environment. Fear of these insects is common, but—believe it or not—most spiders cannot hurt humans. However, the brown recluse spider is a dangerous exception. The ...

Ravenous Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders -- vampire spiders -- have very specific tastes: they prefer to dine on blood-engorged female Anopheles mosquitoes. So how do they pick out female Anopheles ...

YOUR Android phone has the power to identify spiders or insects lurking in your home. It could reveal if you’ve got a harmless critter scuttling around – or something more dangerous. Please provide a ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...