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 ...

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 ...

At first glance, the ogre-faced spider looks like something out of a nightmare—but this bizarre little hunter may actually be the perfect cure for arachnophobia. Armed with enormous light-sensitive ...

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Much of the fear people feel toward spiders is due to misinformation largely spread through the internet. In reality, spiders are beneficial to us, according to research conducted by more than 60 ...

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 ...