Christmas spider tales are many, but all center on good fortune. Liliya Krueger/Getty Last year I found a giant, and I mean absolutely gargantuan, spider in my laundry the day after we brought our ...

Spider webs present an intriguing challenge to evolutionary biologists. These finely honed death traps come in many forms, from the trampoline-like construction of the sheet web spider, to the ...

Spiders might seem like a symbol specific to Halloween, but the eight-legged creatures actually play an important part in another holiday. When we recently reported on the history of the pickle ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The day before Halloween, Jonn Cherico sat on the ground next to a gnarled fallen oak, wrapping cones made of chicken wire with tape and black fabric. “A lot of duct tape, a lot of ...