Spiders are some of the world’s most misunderstood creatures. These arachnids, which have been around for around 400 million years, consume billions of disease-causing mosquitoes and crop-destroying ...

With Halloween just around the corner, many of us have creepy imagery on the mind, especially as we gear up to decorate our houses with ghosts and goblins and muster up the scariest costumes we can ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

You won't have missed the headlines: they come around as regularly as Christmas at the garden centre, and at about the same time of year. The Newcastle Chronicle says "Brits urged to keep windows shut ...

Jeez. It takes convincing but spiders, scary as they are, perform a critical function in nature. Here are 7 reasons we should ...