Before you go exploring in your backyard, you should definitely take some precautions because two small yet deadly spiders ...

As their name implies, brown recluse spiders are reclusive — Whitworth describes them as shy — and often go unnoticed as they spend their time in places where there is not a lot of human activity, ...

Yellow garden spiders are great for keeping your yard's unwanted insect population down, but what happens if they bite you or one of your pets?

Jumping spiders rapidly move their eyes and twitch during rest, suggesting they have visual dreams, never before observed in arachnids. A jumping Spider (Evarcha arcuata) on flowers.

But that’s tricky to spot in animals with eyes that do not move, including spiders. However, part of a jumping spider’s eye does move. The acrobatic arachnids have eight eyes in total, ...

Some species of cave-dwelling spiders lack eyes but still maintain the ability to sense light, which likely protects them from the arid environments at the sunny mouths of caves.