It’s a quiet autumn evening. You’re enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider ( Tegenaria domestica) is striding across the rug towards you. You make a ...

Unless you’re an arthropod admirer, like me, it’s not uncommon to panic if you see a web in the corner of your porch or kitchen ceiling. The good news is that most spiders in US homes and yards are ...

If you’ve spotted eight-legged pests and don’t want to kill them, here’s how you can humanely evict them out of your home.

Once a spider web has been abandoned, it will start to gather dust and dirt, which is what we’ve come to recognize as a cobweb. While an active spider web is clean and translucent, and used by the ...