Don't reach for a shoe the next time you find a spider in your home. Squishing some types of spiders can create even bigger ...

Brown widow spiders are venomous, but their bites are considered much less dangerous than other venomous spiders.

Meet some of Reddings most venomous residents They tend not to bother us unless we bother them, but more live with us as we ...

It’s time we embrace spider season (or at least make peace with it) In Southern California, autumn is the season of the arachnid.

Spider season is unwinding across Southern California. What should you do? Can the spiders hurt you? One expert explains it all.

The oriental fruit fly, which is native to South Asia, poses a risk to several crops and plants grown in California.

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, was sentenced after using the alias “Sam Scorpio” to traffic baby spider monkeys.

Scientists found a “large” animal with 8 eyes in forests and discovered a new species: Taiwanese tree-dwelling wolf spider, study said.

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

A Texas man will spend months in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking six endangered spider monkeys in Southern California, according to federal prosecutors. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of ...

A colorful jumping spider mimics multiple species of ants, and its repertoire of impressions seems to help it scare off one of its fiercest predators.

The California Bird Records Committee has admitted 17 non-native bird species to the official California state bird list, and several other exotics are waiting in the wings.