Harmless black and yellow garden spiders are common in Texas landscapes and eat nothing but insects. Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers ...

Fair warning: If you’re deathly afraid of spiders, or are sensitive to yucky stuff, you should probably skip this story. Or maybe put a hand over the screen when we get to the photos. OK? About a week ...

All the spiders in the world combined annually eat about 440 to 880 million tons of insects and other pests — equal to the weight of more than 85 million elephants, according to a new study. That's a ...