Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Spider egg sacs can appear different, depending on the spider species. Spiders prefer to lay their egg sacs in out-of-the-way, low-traffic, and dark spaces. Removing spider sacs is easy, and it only ...

(CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of ...

A bite from this arachnid won't give you as many problems as black widow bites, but it's still no fun. [Shutterstock/Courtesy] Israeli researchers have discovered that brown widow spiders, a global ...

It's a great time to see some midsummer happenings in nature. The warm days, often with scattered thundershowers at the end following an early morning of dew, keep us looking. My daily walks along the ...

In West Bengal, India, researchers searched for spider egg sacs. Joy Amed via Unsplash Across the regions of West Bengal, India, a group of researchers were on the hunt for the egg sacs of spiders.