Rodent droppings on a wine display cabinet, live flies in a dining room and wastewater backing up through floor drains were among the issues that forced shut three South Florida restaurants last week.

Filmed in a lab box, a little Steatoda spider tries to capture a much bigger roach to feast on.Spiders didn’t evolve pulleys with wheels for lifting massive loads, but tangle web spiders like ...

A bogus report that a spider climbed into a man's appendectomy scar, for instance, made the rounds online, but spiders don’t burrow into wounds, and certainly can’t climb around under your skin.

Once a roach loses contact with the ground, a spider can inject it with venom to paralyze it. Then it can lift it all the way up to the central den of the web and begin to eat.