The Great Smoky Mountains National Park's official Facebook page posted a warning to all visitors on August 28. "The invasive Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata), originally from East Asia, was first ...

September is peak time for the huge spiders known as orb weavers, whose humongous, wheel-shaped webs seem to be everywhere now — stretched between shrubs and trees on trails and garden paths or across ...

Depending on your perspective, seeing a joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) for the first time is either an enchanting experience or an alarming emergency. These creatures are strikingly beautiful, ...

This is the time of year when the huge, wheel-shaped webs of big orb-weaving spiders seem to be all over the place — stretched between trees and shrubs along trails and garden paths or across porches, ...

Published in the journal Subterranean Biology, the find marks the first documented colonial behavior in Tegenaria domestica and Prinerigone vagans.

Jorō spiders are brightly colored, as big as your hand, travel by a method known as ballooning — and, according to a recent study, they will soon be all over the eastern United States. But don't worry ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — One Spokane woman’s small apartment in a downtown brick building has all the essentials - a bed, a kitchen, a couch and more. But the space is also riddled with spiders. For most ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHILADELPHIA — The long list of stolen items ...