You may have heard about some not-so-itsy-bitsy venomous flying spiders that can soar with the winds, love to eat butterflies and are already appearing along the East Coast. They're called Joro ...

A subgroup of air-breathing, terrestrial (land) arthropods, spiders are not actually insects but rather belong to the Class Arachnida (a.k.a. arachnid). Besides spiders, other arachnids include ...

A giant, yellow, venomous flying spider with 4-inch legs sounds like a creature out of a nightmare, but they're already infiltrating some parts of the Eastern U.S. New Jersey Pest Control, the pest ...

If you're afraid of spiders, now is the time to stop reading. You won't want to know that the intimidatingly large Joro spider is becoming an increasingly invasive issue in the United States. If you ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

Arachnophobes, look away — there's a giant invasive spider that has reportedly arrived in the the tri-state area. Earlier this year, experts warned that Joro spiders could start showing up in ...