SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A three-inch long Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) was spotted at a local Santa Barbara County business this fall. The potentially invasive species is harmless ...

Joro spiders have been spotted in areas across the county, but what are these invasive creatures? When will they be returning? Will they be expanding? While the Joro spider season, which spans from ...

The Joro spider, a vibrant black and yellow arachnid native to eastern Asia, has been spotted invading Maryland.

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

Get up close with a spider that may look harmless but could have a bite you don’t want to experience—learn about its risks. Donald Trump issues funding threat to Smithsonian Hochul calls for action ...

A potentially invasive Joro Spider was spotted at a Santa Barbara County business, confirmed the Santa Barbara Museum of ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

The claim sounds precise enough to pass as true. Eight spiders a year, eaten while asleep. It’s the kind of fact people insist they picked up in school or heard repeated often enough to trust. The ...

It is easy to drift into alarmed hyperbole about Donald Trump’s second presidency. The guardrails and principled advisers who discouraged his authoritarian proclivities during his first term are no ...

All dangerous roads are not alike. For some, like Florida’s US-1, which runs the length of the state’s east coast, it’s a matter of volume and geography, as in thousands of mixed-ability drivers ...

Tomatoes were reviled for centuries—so how did we come to embrace them? This small New Jersey town claims to have played a major role. Once called the "poison apple," tomatoes were thought to be ...