Almost 100 people went to hospital last year with spider bites, according to a report, with the number four times higher than ...

From the cobwebs that drape the corners of our basements to the webs spun gracefully in our gardens, spiders are ubiquitous creatures often entangled in a web of fear and fascination. While most of ...

Kamloops woman Caitlin Johnson posted on Twitter last month a picture of a spider she said was spotted ... sagebrush, black widow spiders and that sort of thing. I wouldn’t have expected that ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

A new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, was discovered on spiders in Irish caves. It changes their behavior, similar to ...

While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

The new fungus species Gibellula attenboroughii forces reclusive cave spiders to exposed areas, likely to benefit spore dispersal.

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

"During the day, they form a ball of spiders. At night, they come out and make this web, so it looks like there's a 'spider rain' in the sky," said the professor in an interview with EPTV.

There are some pretty weird relationships in the animal world. Some parasites exist only in the eyes of the world’s oldest ...