New Research Reveals the Mechanics Behind How Spiders “Balloon” Scientists have known about the phenomenon called “ballooning”, a technique used by spiders that allows them to fly, for a while now, but the exact mechanics behind this incredible feat have…
Date From Hell: Some Male Spiders Eat Females After Mating Most of us have heard of black widow females eating the males after they mate, but I’ve personally never heard of the opposite. Sexual cannibalism is a somewhat common practice…
The Only Cute & Cuddly Spider You Will Ever Meet There’s a new spider in town, and I can pretty much guarantee that no matter how much you hate spiders, you will absolutely fall in love with this little guy.…
The arachnids that live on your skin are referred to as mites. This blog has already featured an article about mites that live on skin. However, skin mites do not just cause scabies in some people. Mites can be harmful…
Seven New Species of Spiders Have Been Named After Beloved Fictional Spiders in Fantasy Literature A Brazilian research team chose to further immortalize several literary fantasy classics by naming seven new species of spiders they discovered in caves in northern…
Sexually Starved Spiders Invading Your Home!? It is officially spider mating season, so you might want to be on the lookout for randy spiders (probably male) invading your home in search of females. Spiders so big that they can literally…
If you do any gardening in your spare time then you probably have a love hate relationship with insects. That is understandable since some insects can devour or kill your garden while other types of insects can prevent garden damage…
Black Widows are well known around the world. These spiders are especially known in the Americas for having a highly venomous bite, they are generally intimidating to other arthropods, and the females often kill their male counterparts after mating. And…
Well, I hope you are not afraid of water and spiders at the same time, because, once upon a time during the Cambrian period, a giant creature with multiple legs resembling a spider used to rule the seas five hundred…
When we think of spiders we do not think of them as being rich with personality. Spiders are more like mindless organisms that live for nothing more than satisfying their instinctual needs. However, a group of researchers from the University…