If we can get beyond our fears, spiders, beetles, caterpillars and other creepy-crawlies can make for fine family companions.

Have you ever seen a spider skitter under a cabinet in your kitchen, then spotted a similar one later in the day? While many of us, especially those afraid of spiders, would like to believe that a ...

Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren’t ...

The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate and also to evade predators. Male jumping spiders also jump to escape ...

This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

Many people who live a nomadic life in vans, buses, and RVs like to have pets with them on their journeys, and it’s actually easier to keep an animal with you on the road than you might suspect, ...

Jumping spiders are all the rage among entomologists, but an entire genus living in New Zealand's South Island rocky alpine regions, comprising 12 different species, has managed to evade human ...