What looked like a pearl necklace on a tiny spider turned out to be parasitic mite larvae. Scientists identified the mites as a new species, marking the first record of its family in Brazil. The ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

Huntsman spiders of the family Sparassidae are found throughout Brazil. While adults can grow to large sizes, with legspans of up to six inches, juvenile spiders are only a few millimeters long. This ...

a spider on a piece of wood with a parasitic fungus bursting through its head, legs and body A rare image has captured the moment a huge spider is "defeated" and engulfed by a parasitic fungus, with ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

Wasp vs spider Larvae of a clever, yet ruthless, wasp turn their spider victim into a zombie before forcing it to frantically build them a home -- and then kill it, a new study has found. The ...