Jeff Williams, with Integrity Pest Control, said there are simple steps homeowners can take to keep them out of houses, ...

The bright contrast of yellow and black on a spider may make it look very scary, but most do more good than harm. Here's how to identify friends and foes.

Tiny brown bugs can be a nuisance indoors, but identifying the culprit is the first step toward getting rid of them for good.

American House Spiders American house spiders are also very common and harmless. They have a widow-like shape and are a light brown and gray color. Less common spider in WA Western WA Black widow ...

Black widow spiders are waning in the southern US and brown widows may be the culprit – in lab tests, they were more than six times as likely to kill southern black widows than other arachnids ...

Brown widow spiders' evident aggression toward black widows raises many questions, perhaps first and foremost: Why? What drives such behavior toward a closely related species?

Allen said there are typically only two spiders that are a problem for humans in the U.S.: the black widow and the brown recluse. On the flip side, the common house spider is actually beneficial ...

· Southern house spiders, which are large-bodied with uniform brown coloration; they like to hide in crevices in crumbling brick and wooden slats and build webbing around the holes of their retreats.

Black widow spiders across the southern United States are getting eaten up by brown widows, their lesser-known cousins, according to new research investigating the relationship between the two ...

A black widow spider crawls along the thumb of a researcher. The species is being killed off from urban and suburban areas in Florida and other parts of the U.S. by its aggressive non-native ...

Black widow spiders have earned a fearsome reputation for their venomous bite. But in parts of the southern United States these spiders have much to fear themselves -- from spider relatives who ...