Viewers were paralyzed with fear. An Arizona biologist sent shudders across social media after showcasing the scary, incapacitating effects of a spider wasp’s sting — which can immobilize its victims ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – Spiders are perhaps the most feared invertebrates on the planet. Their eight long legs seem to move almost as if each of them has a mind of their own rather than belonging to one ...

Staff and supporters of the Bohart Museum of Entomology unloading a truck full of wasp specimens. Photo by Steve Heydon. The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis recently received an unusual gift: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the creepy crawlies that can leave you with a nasty bite, spiders might be the creepiest. Thankfully, most spiders can't ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

What makes her story remarkable is that until her death, this trapdoor spider was the oldest known spider in the world. Trapdoor spiders are called such because they don't spin webs like many others.