Spotting a spider in your immediate vicinity can be a little intense, especially if you have a major fear of the creepy crawlers. And, when one shows up in your home, it can be downright freaky. With ...

Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...

Spiders often appear in homes for simple reasons, such as seeking shelter and food. Most of the species are not only harmless but also eat the insects in your home that you dislike.

Spinning their sticky webs in shadowy corners to capture mosquitoes, flies, wasps and cockroaches, the American house spider (aka common house spider) is more friend than foe. What they look like: The ...

You’ve probably come across more spiders or have even walked straight into spiderwebs recently, and that’s because the spider season in western Washington has begun. Well, kind of. Although spiders ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to see a lot of spiders around my house. Up until I started doing some digging for this article, I didn’t know much about spiders. The little knowledge I did ...