La Cañada Flintridge residents are noticing some new guests in their backyards and gardens as fall arrives — spiders, usually brown, with striped legs, that are stretching their webs all over the ...

A study of candy-striped spiders feasting on sleeping insects suggests there are many surprising arachnid behaviors still waiting to be discovered. By Lesley Evans Ogden In hospitals, candy stripers ...

Researchers who photographed a tiny spider massacring a group of sleeping wasps during the night on the Saanich Peninsula say the spiders can use their sticky webs both to capture prey and roam freely ...

Encounters with giant circular webs in the garden, parks or out in the bush are a familiar experience at this time of the year. A far cry from her ground dwelling, hunting relatives such as wolf ...

Arachnophobia, or the fear of spiders, is one of the most common specific phobias. Arachnophobia affects between 2.7 and 6.1 ...