I’ve never been a huge celebrator of Halloween. My daughter-in-law, on the other hand, is going all out this year with enormous spider webs, giant spiders, and various skeletons shrouded in webbing, ...

Wolf spiders have a reputation for being intimidating, and it’s easy to see why. They’re fast, hairy, and large enough to make anyone jump when one scurries across the floor. In Australia and the ...

The scary-looking, ominously-named wolf spider is actually a beneficial insect. Wolf spiders belong to the class Arachnida and are members of the family Lycosidae (derived from the Greek word lycos, ...

If you saw a brownish colored spider with dark markings crawling through the grass toward you, could you tell if it was a wolf spider or a grass spider? Many people struggle to identify the ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...