A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the sex ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front claw to the other. They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found ... but it just goes to show that for most of arthropods, we know so little,” study lead author Stephanie Loria, formerly a ...

Sea spiders don't do anything by the book, and researchers have just gotten to the bottom of how they breathe.

Brazilian wandering spiders roam forest floors at night in search of prey such as frogs and cockroaches ... He has an MSc in zoology and entomology, specialising in animal behaviour, and aims to ...

The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the ...