Hone your backyard spidey sense with spider facts! Learn how to attract garden spiders and why spiders are beneficial.

The brown recluse and black widow are the most common venomous spiders in the U.S., Mississippi. What are their habitats? Know how to prevent a bite.

If you can get close enough, you can determine which species of spider you are observing. The brown recluse has six eyes arranged in three pairs in a semicircular pattern. Sac spiders and funnel ...

Scientists at the Zoological Survey of India have used DNA metabarcoding to discover that tiny organisms, often invisible to ...

Parental care might help invasive brown widow spiders spread. Valeria Arabesky and colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the ...

Brown widow spiders protect their egg sacs by capturing and killing parasitic wasps and constructing silk spikes. The tactics ...

Bugs that are good for plants fall into three distinct categories: pollinators, predators, and parasitoids. Each group has its own special mechanism that works to protect plants from harmful insects, ...