Sexual cannibalism is a complex behaviour observed in various species, often serving reproductive or nutritional purposes ...

Discover more about "Britain's most venomous" spider - the noble false widow, from where you'll find it in the UK to how dangerous it is.

Your first instinct might not be correct, and if it involves questionable behavior, hold up! An emergency room physician at ...

With summer here, more spiders and bees are coming. Read to learn about the pain of spider bites and bee stings, and which ...

Some of the more common spiders in the Kamloops and Okanagan regions are the shiny black widows, the tiny jumping spiders, ...

Dos and don'ts if you're bitten by a venomous spider or rattlesnake. The Mayo Clinic's snake bite advice is similar to that of spider bites. In either case, do: Call 911/get immediate medical help.

Brown widow spiders vary widely in their colors, from very light to very dark, but are not shiny like black widow spiders. Their coloring is mottled, and females have black accent stripes.

Wolf spiders eat crickets, cockroaches, beetles and other insects. Courtesy, Joseph Berger, Bugwood.org ... Black widow spiders are typically between 1 to 1.5 inches across.

Seeing creepy crawlies in your house might make you squirm, but there are some beneficial spiders that you'll want to think ...

The black widow spider is not normally aggressive but may bite in self-defence. In most cases, the symptoms following a bite are a sharp pain followed by localized swelling and redness.

The black widow spider's web helps it trap things to eat. They'll eat other spiders -- including black widows -- and all kinds of insects. They're capable of killing things much larger than ...

Black widow spiders are active in California. Here’s what the arachnids look like, ... Sometimes, female spiders will kill and eat their male counterparts during a violent mating ritual.