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, ...

In images that are sure to strike fear into any arachnophobe, a vast communal web that plays host to more than 100,000 ...

Deep inside a pitch-black chamber on the Albanian–Greek border, scientists have stumbled upon something straight out of a nightmare: the world’s biggest spider web. “This is one of the first examples ...

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 ...

Currently, more than 46,000 spider species stretch their eight legs in habitats across the world, in every country and continent except Antarctica. And those are only the ones scientists have been ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...