Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. ... a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous ...
Mar. 12—With researchers saying a large spider native to East Asia may spread to much of the East Coast, a local ecologist says we have nothing to fear. "I hope that people will keep an open ...
The spider is one of 60 species in the genus Phidippus, [2]: vii and one of about 5,000 in the Salticidae, a family that accounts for about 10% of all spider species. [3] P. clarus is a predator , mostly consuming insects, other spiders, and other terrestrial arthropods .
Poecilotheria formosa is a species of tarantula, commonly known as the salem ornamental, beautiful parachute spider, or finely formed parachute spider. Distribution
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders" [1]) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down.
A 2022 California Supreme Court decision allowed bumble bees to be considered a protected species because they met the state’s legal definition of a “fish”. Image credits: HauntedHippie
Phidippus audax are commonly referred to as "bold jumping spiders" or "bold jumpers". [8] The species name, audax, is a Latin adjective meaning "audacious" or "bold". [8] This name was first used to describe the species by French arachnologist Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, who described the spider as being, "very bold, often jumping on the hand which threatens it". [9]
With so many kinds of eight-legged bugs running around (nearly 3,000 species in North America alone!), the most common house spiders are bound to pop up in your abode from time to time. And with ...