TORONTO, October 22, 2009 — New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 ...

Although you can find spiders all over the place in Australia, you'd be hard pressed to find them lurking in the sterile surrounds of a supermarket. That's unless you're Queensland woman Dee Nott, who ...

Australian redback spiders sniff out how much competition they have for females as they're growing up, and tailor their adult size accordingly, say Canadian researchers. Michael Kasumovic and Dr ...

Female Australian redback spiders have unique ways of controlling who fathers their offspring, Canadian researchers say. Lindsay Snow and Dr Maydianne Andrade of the University of Toronto report that ...

A woman has found a deadly, venomous spider and its egg sac lurking in a box of grapes in Australia. After buying the grapes from a Coles supermarket, New South Wales resident Natasha Thomson opened ...

Staff at a BAE Systems base in Lancashire reportedly fled in terror when they found over a dozen Australian Redback spiders in a crate. According to The Sun, Warton ...

The redback spider's scientific name: The redback spider is one of the most well-known spiders in Australia because of the red stripe on its back. The redback spider is known by its common name, but ...