arachnids

The largest cave spiders in the world are formidable, often reaching leg spans above 10 centimeters. These long-lived hunters occupy dark, stable environments where food is scar...

In Iowa, "big black spider" usually refers to large, dark-bodied arachnids that people commonly encounter around homes, sheds, and porches. The most often seen candidates are th...

Flying spiders are real, but they do not fly with wings or powered flight. Instead, certain spiders use a behavior called ballooning to drift through the air on silk threads, al...