Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The way gardeners view insects has come a long way in the past few decades. The importance of pollinators and the natural pest ...

Perhaps no arachnid symbolizes what's wrong with many human's perception of spiders better than the garden spider. Beginning now and extending well into the fall is the time yellow garden spiders are ...

Some predators chase. Others ambush. And then there are the ones that shoot. Across the animal kingdom, a surprising number ...

MUNICH - Insect and spider populations are falling dramatically across the globe, spurring concern throughout the scientific community, and a new study suggests that the decline may be happening more ...

A newly identified spider, Pikelinia floydmuraria, is catching scientists’ attention for what it can do despite being only a ...

Spiders and other creepy crawlies have an uncanny ability to make your home feel less like a haven and more like a scene from ...

Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers, a new one to me. Despite their creepy reputation, spiders are largely beneficial and help keep ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new ...

Researchers studying amber containing the larvae of Cretaceous insects reveal that immature lacewings likely specialized in killing spiders. They walked across spider webs with ease thanks to long, ...

Flapping bees build up a charge of several hundred volts, enough to electrostatically draw pollen from a flower. But researchers have discovered a downside to being charged: it attracts spider silk ...

What happens when an insect touches a spider’s web? Most web-spinning spiders line their silken threads with droplets of glue, which snag blundering insects. But one group—the cribellate spiders—does ...