Twice as many black and brown widow and redback spiders were exterminated this spring on MCAS Iwakuni compared to the same ...

Spiders get a lot of credit for being neat. With their perfect little webs, strung delicately, repaired fastidiously, they scamper over to any stuck prey and wrap it up tight for later. But redback ...

Among spiders, sex doesn’t just create life; it can also end it. Males of many species—including orb-weaving spiders, widow spiders, and wolf spiders—find their fortunes turning on a dime ...

The redback spider, a native of Australia and a relative of the black widow, first appeared in Japan in 1995 in Osaka, according to Australia’s ABC News.

Janet Dickey spotted a rare spider not normally seen in this part of the world. Today's Bug of the Week is believed to be a Red Back Ant Mimic spider, an arachnid that is not common in Canada.

Scientists say Australia's hot, humid and wet summer has had a bad effect on common, but poisonous, redback spiders. (Remember, it's summer now in Australia and the southern hemisphere ...

The redback spider of Australia spins a tangled web with sticky, “gum-footed” lines that stretch straight down to the ground like a beaded curtain. When ants or crickets brush up against one ...

The redback spider, also known as the Australian black widow, is a highly venomous spider found across Australia, Southeast Asia and New Zealand.

As he was tidying up, he found a baby eastern brown snake, the world's second-most venomous land snake, with a redback spider, one of the world's deadliest spiders, on its tail.

The redback spider, also known as the Australian black widow, is the kind of creature that might shake a person’s belief in God. This Lovecraftian nightmare freak hunts its prey with balletic ...