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Spider

Man wanted for setting fires in home to kill spiders arrested in NYC

  • Feb 27

Spider or mosquito bite? Here's how to tell

  • Sep 9, 2025

Invasive Joro spider spotted in Bucks County, Pa.

  • Sep 19, 2024

Flying Joro spiders may be in our area this summer

  • Jun 5, 2024

Listen to this: Scientists translate spider webs into music

  • Apr 15, 2021

These spiders lack ears, but they can hear you, study says

  • Oct 30, 2020

Toddler fights off spider decoration at Halloween store

  • Oct 16, 2019

Doctors find venomous brown recluse spider inside woman's ear

  • Aug 23, 2019

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Mother says she's grateful to be alive after spider bite

  • Aug 5
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Invasive Joro spider spotted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

  • Sep 19, 2024
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Invasive Joro spider spotted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

  • Sep 18, 2024
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Flying venomous Joro spiders may spread to New Jersey this summer

  • Jun 5, 2024
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Flying venomous Joro spiders may spread to New Jersey this summer

  • Jun 5, 2024
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Joro spider, venomous species from East Asia, poised to spread across East Coast, scientists say

  • Mar 9, 2022
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Listen to this: Scientists translate spider webs into music

  • Apr 15, 2021
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Doctors find venomous brown recluse spider inside woman's ear

  • Aug 23, 2019

Latest Stories

Hurricanes lead to more aggressive spiders, study says

In regions of the United States and Mexico that are prone to hurricanes, aggressive spiders are evolving to survive and ride out the storm.

  • Aug 20, 2019
Credit: Annette Alaniz Guajardo‎

Photos: Spider catches, eats bat in web outside Texas home

We now know what nightmares are made of: huge spiders eating bats!

  • Aug 9, 2019
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'Stuff of nightmares' photos show reported huntsman spider eating pygmy possum

Justine Latton, who said her husband took the remarkable photos, said it's important to understand the scale of the animals.

  • Jun 19, 2019
Maggie Grundler

Researchers spot dinner plate-sized tarantula dragging its next meal across rainforest floor

Even a spider has to eat, but you might have never realized just how nightmarish it can be.

  • Mar 2, 2019

Greek spiders spin giant webs over shore town

Spiderwebs are covering a town in Greece.

  • Sep 22, 2018