Today's Bug of the Week fits perfectly with Halloween. It is creepy, crawly, scary looking and packs one heck of a bite. Bruce Gregory came across the multi-legged critter earlier this year at h ...

Throughout Australia, a tiny wasp stings and paralyzes redback spiders before laying an egg that develops into a larva and slowly devours the dangerous arachnids, Australian researchers have announced ...

TORONTO, October 22, 2009 — New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 ...

A woman has found a deadly, venomous spider and its egg sac lurking in a box of grapes in Australia. After buying the grapes from a Coles supermarket, New South Wales resident Natasha Thomson opened ...

Although you can find spiders all over the place in Australia, you'd be hard pressed to find them lurking in the sterile surrounds of a supermarket. That's unless you're Queensland woman Dee Nott, who ...

Australian redback spiders sniff out how much competition they have for females as they're growing up, and tailor their adult size accordingly, say Canadian researchers. Michael Kasumovic and Dr ...

The redback spider's scientific name: The redback spider is one of the most well-known spiders in Australia because of the red stripe on its back. The redback spider is known by its common name, but ...