Many love the taste and smell of the banana, but there is one critter found around South Carolina donning the colorful fruit’s name that you might want to avoid. The banana spider. This arachnid is a ...

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Our yards and gardens are filled with life. But some of those living creatures are not what many people desire, like spiders. As creepy crawlers that honestly just look like they came straight out of ...

It seems Greenville residents will need to get comfortable with a new arachnid in town because, according to scientists, it’s not going anywhere. The Joro spider was first identified in North Georgia ...

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

Giant, venomous yellow spiders have been making their way up the East Coast, and people may begin to spot them in New Jersey, New York and even southern Canada as early as this year. The creatures are ...

A Washington College professor is calling on residents in the state to help track the expansion of the Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an invasive species previously seen in large numbers only in ...

The hot summer in Texas has attracted a special kind of arachnid to soak up the sun, which has piqued the interest of local homeowners. “Anyone know what this spider is?” asked a Nextdoor user in a ...

Female Banana Spiders (Nephila clavipes) are one of the largest orb-weavers in this country, rivaled in size only by female Black-and-Yellow Garden Spiders (Argiope aurantia). The male Banana Spider ...