During this Halloween week, let’s take a moment to pay tribute to two of our favorite wilderness neighbors: bats and spiders. While their presence might cause concern for some people, often due to ...

What Is a Jumping Spider? It's no wonder jumping spiders are called that; they can jump 10-40 times their body length using their powerful back legs. They belong to a family of spiders called ...

Just as Halloween season is beginning, Butterfly Pavilion is gearing up for its Spiders Around the World exhibition, featuring species of tarantulas and other arachnids not always on display at the ...

If you're not so fond of spiders, you may find kindred spirits in other spiders! Researcher Daniela Roessler worked with jumping spiders and found that they know to get away from the presence of other ...

Jumping spiders are one of the most common types of spiders. While there are thousands of species of jumping spiders, only 300 are native to the United States. Jumping spiders are not dangerous to ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

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