The truth is that few spiders are able to comfortably live in modern centrally-heated homes. The majority would prefer to be helped back outside where they live in garages and sheds or among the ...

Some of the most feared spiders of the arachnid world seem to be the brown recluse, or Loxosceles reclusa, which live throughout 16 states, primarily in the Midwest and South. Like their name ...

They are easy to feed because they hunt on the ground by foot ... They are very docile and live up to eight years. Southern house spiders are extremely gentle if you get the rare opportunity ...

(See our article How dangerous are false widow spiders?) There are six species of false widow spiders that live in the UK (Steatoda nobilis, Steatoda grossa, Steatoda bipunctata, Steatoda albomaculata ...

Reports of spiders swarming by residents' homes to ... all these animals that spend their lives cryptically on the ground can't live there anymore," explained Professor Dieter Hochuli from Sydney ...