Spiders ingeniously consume their old webs to recycle vital proteins and nutrients, a process crucial for energy conservation and new silk production. This behavior ensures their traps remain ...

Urban legend has led many to believe that we eat spiders in our sleep, up to as many as eight a year. To put at ease the 3%-15% of people who suffer from arachnophobia (the intense and irrational fear ...

Spiders are quite literally all around us. A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 percent of them, including 68 percent of bathrooms and more than ...

WASHINGTON -- Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other food from the water. Researchers from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, ...

Shrubbery, toolsheds, basements—these are places one might expect to find spiders. But what about the beach? Or in a stream? Some spiders make their homes near or, more rarely, in water: tucking into ...

A giant, yellow, venomous flying spider with 4-inch legs sounds like a creature out of a nightmare, but they're already infiltrating some parts of the Eastern U.S. New Jersey Pest Control, the pest ...

If you're interested in bats, there's a good chance you know that around 70 percent of bat species are insectivores, some ...