Arachnophobia is the technical term for an irrational or severe fear of spiders. It’s also the name of an incredibly campy yet satisfying horror film from 1990. In the movie, a previously undiscovered ...

Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive, a new study suggests. The study, published Aug. 6 in the Journal of Natural History, proposes several new ideas ...

Scientists in California have discovered a new species of worm capable of turning tarantulas into living 'zombies' and eating them from the inside out. A team of scientists from the University of ...

So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — Tarantulas, beware. It’s officially mating season for New Mexico’s state insect, the tarantula hawk. They’re a type of spider wasp primarily known to hunt tarantulas in a ...

* Agatha, the zoo's Mexican red knee tarantula, is probably 25 to 30 years old. Zoo-keepers think she was donated by a woman whose son went away to college and didn't want to bring his pet tarantula ...

On a Saturday evening in March, while herds of St. Patrick's Day revelers clad in green pushed through Times Square past tourists gawking at a guy dressed as a giant Transformer, a wholly different ...

You’re walking back to the house at dusk.Thinking about dinner. Not thinking about spiders. Then you hit a web.Across the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Every fall, male tarantulas will travel up to 20 miles across southeast Colorado to find a mate. While thousands participate in the “mate-gration,” around one-third of them won’t ...

Respect the tarantula trek. That was the main message at La Junta’s first Tarantula Festival this weekend. Festival goers got to watch a parade, take tarantula tours, buy tarantula-related goods and ...