Louisiana is home to numerous different species of spiders, since the state's warm climate and diverse landscape makes for the perfect environment for the arachnids. While most spiders in Louisiana ...

Of all the creeping, crawling critters that potentially pose problems for humans, spiders occupy a special niche. Unlike the biting, stinging pests such as hornets, wasps, snakes, and ticks that ...

Have you ever wondered what some of the largest spiders in South Carolina might look like? If you haven’t before, you might be curious now. You may be accustomed to seeing banana spiders in their ...

Growing as big as a person’s palm, fishing spiders — the largest spiders in Minnesota and the Midwest — can make people jump, startled by their size and speed. “It’s a very big, intimidating spider,” ...

They may appear to be passively relaxing, but they are actually feeling for aquatic insects, tadpoles or even tiny fish. A six-spotted fishing spider sits on a lily pad in August. Note the front legs ...