We consume nearly 400 million pounds of cranberries annually—but how they’re harvested might surprise you. Cranberry bogs are ...

Spiders’ webs come in all shapes and sizes, from funnel webs to sheet webs and the classic orb web – the sort you imagine for ...

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

While spiders are often seen as pretty creepy, pirate spiders are downright devious, using clever tricks to feed their cannibalistic tendencies.

NC State entomologists discuss the production of insects in media, and whether they are actually haunting this Halloween.

A critically endangered spider has been rediscovered in the UK after being unseen for 40 years. The find was called a “major ...

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

So much of the fear of Halloween was really a fear of men.

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Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...