Pests like spiders and scorpions are staying active longer than usual across the Southwest this fall, including Southern Nevada, due to ongoing mild temperatures [1]. This extended warmth delays the ...

We are less than six months away from Halloween but we're already hearing eerie tales of large, yellow spiders "coming for us." But is that true? Joro spiders have been dominating headlines as the ...

Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's also ...

It’s a season of renewal, a period of awakening and growth, also known as spring. But if spring means a new start for humans, it can mean the same for non-humans. As temperatures rise and windows and ...

A curator at New York's renowned American Museum of Natural History, who was detained at Turkey's Istanbul Airport on the suspicion of smuggling valuable poisonous spiders and scorpions out of the ...