You were working in your garden or cleaning out a closet and now you’re feeling pain on the back of your hand. It looks like there could be some swelling or redness around the spot where it hurts.

Did you just see a common house spider in your kitchen cabinet or one of South Carolina’s more dangerous arachnids? The Palmetto State has four different types of spiders with venomous bites. But how ...

Diane Wood laughs when she thinks about brown recluses or black widow spiders jumping at people and biting them. "It only takes one person to get bitten and then everybody becomes afraid," said Wood, ...

Black widow spiders across the southern United States are getting eaten up by brown widows, their lesser-known cousins, according to new research investigating the relationship between the two ...

Eight legs. Weird body shapes and colors. Hair. Eight or more eyes. Sticky webs. Alabama has about 100 species of spiders that can legitimately freak people out, but there are only two that are likely ...

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When it comes to spiders, two names in particular tend to spark the most fear: the black widow and the brown recluse. Both of these spiders have earned a reputation as being among the most feared ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — There are ...

From the funnel web spider to the brown recluse, here are some of the deadliest spiders on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.