Spiders are some of the world’s most misunderstood creatures. These arachnids, which have been around for around 400 million ...

Huge, colorful Joro spiders are making their way up the East Coast and will likely reach the D.C. area, bug experts say. While Joro spiders are harmless to people and pets, their size and presence ...

A guided walkthrough of a reptarium bug wall turns into an emotional journey of fear, learning, and personal growth. The video introduces a wide variety of insects and arachnids, explaining how they ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

I tell you this because spiders and public speaking regularly rank among our greatest fears. So out of curiosity, I Googled "How to overcome a fear of spiders." I wondered if the keys to overcoming ...

Snakes send chills through a lot of people, but those chills can be much more severe in some people. A few people, however, find snakes to be so fascinating that they suffer no chills at all. Many ...

ROCHESTER — This story is for one of my friends who has a true spider phobia. She's terrified of them. The fear, at times, trashes her quality of life. I've know her to avoid social events and suffer ...

Millions of people have a debilitating fear of spiders. Arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias in the United States and around the world. Across the pond – the London Zoo is on a mission to ...

Meet the man who lives with over 1,000 tarantulas — and travels up and down England helping people overcome their fears of creepy crawlies. Aaron Phoenix, 37, began accumulating them in the summer of ...

Blame it on public fear of immigrants or good old-fashioned arachnophobia, but we find the latest reports of an onslaught of giant flying spiders headed to Maryland and beyond a little over the top.

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for many, the celebrations conjure up images of two specific animals: spiders and ...