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 ...

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 ...

What scares you the most? Maybe it's teetering precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper; perhaps it's a giant, hairy tarantula crawling across your laptop keyboard. Maybe it's giving a wedding toast ...

They are here, but they aren't dangerous.

There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him. In a better documented ...

SO LIVE CHECK OF YOUR TRAFFIC TO GO THIS MORNING. NELSON WAVERLE. OH, SO MANY PEOPLE AFRAID OF THIS. NEXT STORY. EIGHT LEGS. THESE LITTLE SPIDERS. YEAH, SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SUCH A PHOBIA. YEAH, ...

A woman with a crippling fear of spiders sleeps in a tent on her bed – to protect her from creepy crawlies. Estella Kyriacou, 25, grew up terrified of arachnids and was horrified when she saw one in ...