Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It seems Greenville residents will need to get comfortable with a new arachnid in town because, according to scientists, it’s not ...

It seems Georgia 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 in ...

A colorful, invasive species of spiders known for spinning gold-colored webs has been spreading across Georgia for years now, and scientists say they aren't going anywhere. The Joro spider, a ...

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An invasive spider that is native to Japan and can move across large distances by riding winds and ballooning — which some call parachuting — has spread throughout the Southeast over the past several ...

Researchers who photographed a tiny spider massacring a group of sleeping wasps during the night on the Saanich Peninsula say the spiders can use their sticky webs both to capture prey and roam freely ...

The animal kingdom is filled with colors and patterns. Sometimes, those colors are to signal to members of an animal’s own species, in a mating display for instance. In other cases, a bright color or ...

It may be September in North Georgia, but it looks more like Halloween. Millions of palm-sized Joro spiders have suspended themselves in three-dimensional golden webs on porches, power lines and ...

Spiders, belonging to the class Arachnida, have a long and fascinating evolutionary history that dates back over 300 million years. Their origins can be traced to ancient arachnid ancestors that lived ...

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 ...