The redback spider, also known as the Australian black widow, is the kind of creature that might shake a person’s belief in God. This Lovecraftian nightmare freak hunts its prey with balletic ...

The scientists say that over the past 150 years the expansion in global trade has led to more alien spiders, bigger than domestic species, being inadvertently imported. A huge, furry monster ...

When Flynn Prall started working in the bush all day as a trainee conservationist, he began to take notice of the tiny creatures around him. He was so intrigued that when his day job with Mandurah ...

Creepy crawlies make many of us squirm, but the secret world of Tasmanian bugs has become a fascination for Launceston-based part-time hairdresser, Charlie Price since she started using a macro lens ...

Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...

Although they're frequently called insects, spiders belong to a closely related class called arachnids. Spiders are helpful to people because they feed on harmful insects. Spiders aren't aggressive or ...