Someone (usually me) in your home informs you that there is a gigantic spider in the bathroom that needs dealing with, only ...

KidsPost Big, colorful joro spiders are coming! But there’s no need to be afraid. Scientists say this nonnative spider is spreading along the East Coast, and that might be a good thing.

The Joro spider is big, very big. “Including its legs, the spider is around 3-4 inches long, about the same size of our indigenous argiope (or black and yellow garden spider).

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

They're big, they're scary-looking and they float through the air — but Joro spiders are also among the "shyest" spiders researchers have ever found. Latest U.S.

Arachnophobes, beware! You may want to stay out of area parks for the next several weeks. Many are packed with spiders and they aren't the itsy bitsy variety. These are big ones, almost humongous. … ...

A female jorō spider looms so much bigger that it’s easy to overlook the males of the species (inset, shown to scale) that often hang out in her big web. J. Howell (female) and B.J. Freeman ...

But it's not something all spiders do. And it's not something big spiders can do, because they're too heavy. "It's why you don't see a battalion of spiders flying at you," said Coyle.

The article, published online Feb. 28 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, details instances of arthropod predators—mostly large spiders along with a few centipedes and a giant water bug ...

"Creepy crawly" giant flying Joro spiders are spreading to the Northeast U.S., experts say 01:13. The saga of the large invasive Joro spiders that parachute through the air isn't over. A new study ...

Big, yellow spiders are popping up around homes and gardens in parts of the South.Joro spiders are a non-native species first found in northern Georgia in 2014.But now, they are showing up in ...