North Carolina is home to the black widow. The brown recluse is not native, but can be found here.

Julia Newton-Mercer was on a week-long trip to Sardinia, Italy, and was bitten by mosquitoes while lounging outside the hotel ...

Julia Newton-Mercer was vacationing in Italy when she noticed a bite on her leg. While she initially thought it was from a mosquito, the bite was from a venomous spider that led to a sepsis diagnosis ...

Hidden inside homes and dry desert shelters across South America lives one of the most dangerous spiders on Earth—the Chilean recluse. A close relative of the brown recluse, this tiny arachnid ...

What started as a normal morning before school turned into a nightmare when 15-year-old Mike Makins felt a sharp pain inside ...

Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly have ...