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

October is the month of Halloween, when people decorate their yards and homes with large spiders to scare people. October is also when people often see real large spiders in their homes. But if this ...

Spinning their sticky webs in shadowy corners to capture mosquitoes, flies, wasps and cockroaches, the American house spider (aka common house spider) is more friend than foe. What they look like: The ...

Learn why “spider season” and deadly Sydney funnel-web season are different, and how to stay safe when spiders are on the move.

For the majority of the year, native spiders take up residence in our homes and gardens, but tend to stay out of sight (and, cucially, mind). It's only in autumn, when the weather takes a turn, that ...