Have you ever wondered what some of the largest spiders in South Carolina might look like? If you haven’t before, you might be curious now. A nursery rhyme that kept waking a woman up at night in ...

A female dark fishing spider, left, and its male counterpart. There are bad relationships, and then there is the mating ritual of the dark fishing spider. The male mates with the female. The male ...

A female dark fishing spider (left) and its male counterpart, which sacrifices itself as a food source immediately after mating. A new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Gonzaga ...

Many species of insects and spiders engage in homosexual behavior, like courting, mounting, and trying to mate with members of the same sex. But it is unclear what ...

Growing as big as a person’s palm, fishing spiders — the largest spiders in Minnesota and the Midwest — can make people jump, startled by their size and speed. “It’s a very big, intimidating spider,” ...

LA CROSSE — As spiders go, this one at first glance seems the stuff of nightmares — big, hairy, like something that would be found in a steamy jungle, not a storage shed in Wisconsin. Tom and Bonnie ...

Dark fishing spiders have the ability to skate, row, or run across the water when they hunt as well as dive below the surface to catch their supper. Additionally, an alarmed fishing spider can hide ...