For some people, the sight of a spider egg sac is incredibly unsettling. They may be tempted to immediately destroy or remove it from the home, assuming that the progeny that emerges will be dangerous ...

In West Bengal, India, researchers searched for spider egg sacs. Joy Amed via Unsplash Across the regions of West Bengal, India, a group of researchers were on the hunt for the egg sacs of spiders.

Spider egg sacs can appear different, depending on the spider species. Spiders prefer to lay their egg sacs in out-of-the-way, low-traffic, and dark spaces. Removing spider sacs is easy, and it only ...

Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

And they’ve been spotted in Pennsylvania before. USA Today reports that the Joro spider — those rather large, black-and-yellow arachnids native to Asian countries like Japan that can move around by ...