October is the month of Halloween, when people decorate their yards and homes with large spiders to scare people. October is also when ...

The scary-looking, ominously-named wolf spider is actually a beneficial insect. Wolf spiders belong to the class Arachnida and are members of the family Lycosidae (derived from the Greek word lycos, ...

The other day, I pulled the car up next to the garage apron and spotted a round opening in the grass next to the concrete. It was about the diameter of my forefinger and perfectly round. The grass was ...

A wolf spider stays low to the ground. The timid venomous creatures are common in California, especially during warm months. Getty Images As sweltering temperatures continue to bake California, the ...

Think that you have a large extended family? Well, you have nothing on a group of creepy-crawlies known as Wolf Spiders. Wolf Spiders are a diverse group of spiders that can be found worldwide, save ...

Something unsettling is crawling through homes across Spain. In recent weeks, reports of wolf spiders appearing in gardens ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...

DEAR JOAN: The largest spider I ever saw — and according to my critter book, the largest wolf spider in North America — is the Carolina wolf spider, and I was fortunate enough to find one inside my ...