A few dark specks on a sheet, windowsill, or skirting board can make an ordinary room feel suddenly suspect. The reaction is usually immediate and deeply familiar. Disgust arrives first, closely ...

YOUR Android phone has the power to identify spiders or insects lurking in your home. It could reveal if you’ve got a harmless critter scuttling around – or something more dangerous. The motto is ...

Spiders are beneficial to the environment. Fear of these insects is common, but—believe it or not—most spiders cannot hurt humans. However, the brown recluse spider is a dangerous exception. The ...

Ravenous Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders -- vampire spiders -- have very specific tastes: they prefer to dine on blood-engorged female Anopheles mosquitoes. So how do they pick out female Anopheles ...

Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...