SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has come back out to play. Orb weaver spiders, one of the most common families of ...

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(NEXSTAR) — As the onset of summer nears, so too do warmer temperatures and mating season for many of the nearly 900 spider species in Texas. Even though you’re unlikely to cross paths with many of ...

Kansas State University entomologist Jeff Whitworth adds another scary warning: “And they’re watching you with multiple eyes and fangs made for sucking blood.” But unlike the Addams Family of 1960s ...

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You’re walking back to the house at dusk. Thinking about dinner. Not thinking about spiders. Then you hit a web. Across the face. There’s a big shape hanging in it. If you spend a lot of time outside, ...