Huge, colorful Joro spiders are making their way up the East Coast and will likely reach the D.C. area, bug experts say. While Joro spiders are harmless to people and pets, their size and presence ...

Six-month-old babies show stress responses when viewing images of snakes and spiders, long before they could have learned ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

Snakes send chills through a lot of people, but those chills can be much more severe in some people. A few people, however, find snakes to be so fascinating that they suffer no chills at all. Many ...

ROCHESTER — This story is for one of my friends who has a true spider phobia. She's terrified of them. The fear, at times, trashes her quality of life. I've know her to avoid social events and suffer ...

Meet the man who lives with over 1,000 tarantulas — and travels up and down England helping people overcome their fears of creepy crawlies. Aaron Phoenix, 37, began accumulating them in the summer of ...

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Millions of people have a debilitating fear of spiders. Arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias in the United States and around the world. Across the pond – the London Zoo is on a mission to ...

Blame it on public fear of immigrants or good old-fashioned arachnophobia, but we find the latest reports of an onslaught of giant flying spiders headed to Maryland and beyond a little over the top.

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

A crippling fear of nature called “biophobia” is becoming more common, researchers say. A Wyoming backcountry guide said he’s ...