Prepare for your next holiday down South by reading up on the one state with a surprising number of venomous spiders. Plus, ...

When you see a brown spider crawling around your home or property, it’s easy to jump to conclusions and think it must be a ...

(NEXSTAR) — As the onset of summer nears, so too do warmer temperatures and mating season for many of the nearly 900 spider species in Texas. Even though you’re unlikely to cross paths with ...

The natural range of the brown recluse spider, L. reclusa, is from south- ern Texas, north to Nebraska ... At first light, wandering spiders will normally return to their retreat of an irregularly ...

and the northeastern parts of Texas round out the recluse's range. Though the spiders can travel around – maybe in luggage, or freight – it’s uncommon to find a brown recluse outside its ...

Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. How do you tell if it’s a brown recluse? These spiders are light brown with a dark violin ...

"They really are shy, thus the name recluse," Wizzie Brown, an entomologist at Texas A&M University, said in a statement. "They come out to hunt insects, even other spiders, at night, but ...

Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park. Officials at ...

Dr. Monica Mowery and colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev compared egg sac parasitism in the urban invasive brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, to the desert white widow ...

In late August and early September, Texas brown tarantulas are especially active in Kansas as they seek out mates. These insect-hunting spiders hide in states from Arizona to Arkansas. Whether you ...