You can use a free and easy-to-use wildlife recording app, such as iRecord or iNaturalist, which can be downloaded from your preferred app store (we will pick up all records made in Cumbria!) or send ...

Spiders are not out to get you and actually prefer to avoid humans; we are much more dangerous to them than vice versa. Bites ...

In the dunes between Monterey and Mexico’s Baja California, Jochim and her coauthors discovered a new species of spider that until now has been hidden in plain sight: Aptostichus ramirezae. The new ...

Researchers used computer models to simulate if and how these features influence prey affect vibrations of orb-weavers' webs ...

Forty years after they were last seen, a rare breed of wolf spiders have been rediscovered in the United Kingdom. Researchers ...

If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake ...

Scientists discovered a new kind of trapdoor spider under California’s sand dunes, showing how isolation helps spiders evolve ...

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Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California’s ...

The new species is a kind of trapdoor spider, a spider known for creating borrows underground with hinged doors.

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

Verified by iNaturalist, these 10 spider species show the real diversity of northern Michigan, from black widows to ...