Fishing spiders and wolf spiders often look alike with their large, brownish bodies. However, their build, eye patterns, and ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...

There's nothing quite like the creepy-crawly feeling of walking through a spider web! Yes, plenty of spiders do spin webs to catch their prey, but not the wolf spider. Instead, these athletic ...

It's a quiet autumn evening. You're enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider (Tegenaria domestica) is striding across the rug toward you. You make a sudden ...

The diminutive spider measures in at less than a quarter of an inch in size and was discovered on a remote nature preserve Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has ...

A study published in ‘Experimental and Applied Entomology’ has explored how spiders could tell what animals are living around ...

Wolf spiders have a scary name, but they're similar to grass spiders in looks AND harmlessness. And the difference between both is surprisingly easy to spot.

While some people do not care for spiders, there are only two groups in the U.S. that are considered dangerous to humans because of their venom: brown and widow spiders. These include the infamous ...