Crimson red ladybug spider with surprising scientific characteristics has been discovered in Morocco and named Eresus ...
I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral scare line, not as a finding from sleep labs or arachnology research. By ...
The newfound species belongs to the family of 'ladybird velvet spiders' but the bodily features display starkly unusual ...
So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but ...
Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. I was sure our window spider was long gone. This year the first hard ...