Arachnophobes might cherish the idea of a world without spiders, but consider this: Without them, the planet would be covered in a thick, wriggling blanket of other bugs. Researchers writing in the ...

The post Joro Spiders Eat Tiny Flies, Not the Bugs Scientists Feared appeared first on A-Z Animals. Giant Joro spiders are large arachnids native to East Asia. Sometime after the year 2000, they found ...

When Joro spiders first arrived stateside more than a decade ago, scientists worried the massive black-and-yellow spiders would gorge themselves on the same bugs as native spiders (or even the native ...

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 ...

All the spiders in the world combined annually eat about 440 to 880 million tons of insects and other pests — equal to the weight of more than 85 million elephants, according to a new study. That's a ...

Underside of Giant Joro Spider in a north Georgia yard© Kelly vanDellen/Shutterstock.com Giant Joro spiders are large arachnids native to East Asia. Sometime after the year 2000, they found their way ...