Spiders don’t carry diseases, the way ticks and mosquitoes do, and in the United States, where thousands of species of spiders live, there are only a few venomous types that cause concern — notably, ...

Learn how to get rid of black widows with these effective spider control methods. You can identify black widows and prevent ...

Household spiders are generally not dangerous, but to keep your mind at ease, follow this cheat sheet of the most common home ...

Among the most common spiders found in and around the home, the shy grass spider (aka a funnel-web spider) builds dense, silk-lined webs/burrows to trap its insect victims. They’re also super fast ...

Black widow bites can cause severe illness, which can be treated with horse-derived antibody sera. This method, however, is not entirely safe. To change this, researchers have generated fully human ...

A desperate dad is warning Brits to be careful around false widows as he was hospitalised after performing DIY surgery on an agonising spider bite. Rob Bendelow was staying at his partner's house in ...

Perhaps the most notorious of all, the black widow spider is easily recognizable by the red hourglass marking on its abdomen. Found throughout the US, black widows prefer dark, undisturbed areas like ...