Many animals, including humans, are known to dine on snakes. Mammals, lizards, birds and even snakes engage in snake eating.

You’re walking back to the house at dusk. Thinking about dinner. Not thinking about spiders. Then you hit a web. Across the face. There’s a big shape hanging in it. If you spend a lot of time outside, ...

A Washington College professor is asking residents across Baltimore and Maryland’s Eastern Shore to help track the spread of the Jorō spider, an invasive species that has recently appeared in the ...

A Washington College professor is calling on residents in the state to help track the expansion of the Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an invasive species previously seen in large numbers only in ...

CHESTERTOWN — A Washington College professor is calling on residents in the Baltimore area and on the Eastern Shore to help track the expansion of the Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an invasive ...

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny fraction of the 17.9 million deaths caused by cardiovascular disease. Yet ...

Massachusetts is home to dozens of species of spiders but luckily, most are not dangerous to humans. Massachusetts is home to just one spider that is harmful to humans: the black widow. Other common ...

Kansas State University entomologist Jeff Whitworth adds another scary warning: “And they’re watching you with multiple eyes and fangs made for sucking blood.” But unlike the Addams Family of 1960s ...

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky.… K-State entomologist Jeff Whitworth adds another scary warning: “And they’re watching you with multiple eyes and fangs made for sucking blood.