With the death of a student last year after a spider bite, it is good to know what action you should take if you are bitten.

The name “brown recluse” conjures up nightmarish visuals for a majority of the population, and not only for those who have arachnophobia. This unique spider is found in 16 states, most of which are in ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

Generally, spiders want to avoid humans and are much more scared of us than vice versa, meaning they will only bite as a ...

While spider bites aren't uncommon, of the over 650 different species of spiders in the UK, just 12 are venomous enough to cause humans severe pain, according to AnimalWised. Generally ...

If the threat doesn’t go away, it will grab onto it and bite over and over. Another characteristic that makes this spider so dangerous is that it is aggressive. It doesn’t just run away and hide like ...

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 ...