Halloween may be over, but creepy crawlies like daddy longlegs and other spiders still haunt the hills and dales of Vallejo and Solano County. Despite their scary reputation, most spiders aren't ...

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 ...

There are close to 50,000 known species of spiders, with another 50,000 estimated to be undiscovered. While the creepy arachnids can be frightening to look at, many are harmless to humans. However, ...

Fall is the time of year that most arachnids reach maturity and are full-grown, which may account for why you're noticing them more often in your home. But experts advise to leave them be. Spiders are ...

If only they were clever Halloween decorations. The San Francisco Bay area has received numerous shocking reports and photos of spiders falling out of the sky and sticking to surfaces as they reach ...

Brown recluse spiders are venomous, but their bites typically only cause blistering or swelling that subsides after about a ...

Spiders are intriguing creepy crawlies, and now, scientists have discovered that some spiders lure prey in using a terrifyingly smart tactic that may give you nightmares. The researchers made this ...

Tarantulas -- those big, hairy, eight-legged spiders featured in horror movies -- aren't exactly adored by everyone. But it turns out tarantulas and other creepy animals have friends on the North ...

This creepy spider sent one woman from Florida into a tailspin. When farm owner Jessica Street spotted a large wolf spider in her kitchen recently, she had the idea to catch it in a plastic container ...

Fall is the time of year when homeowners may be noticing more spiders scurrying across their kitchen floors and setting up camp by weaving complex webs in the dark corners of their basements. Turns ...