What scares you the most? Maybe it's teetering precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper; perhaps it's a giant, hairy tarantula crawling across your laptop keyboard. Maybe it's giving a wedding toast ...

Spiders are some of the world’s most misunderstood creatures. These arachnids, which have been around for around 400 million years, consume billions of disease-causing mosquitoes and crop-destroying ...

One day, while at work in her office at home, Kae realized she wasn’t exactly alone. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a sheepish little visitor doing her best to survive behind a corkboard on ...

A woman with a crippling fear of spiders sleeps in a tent on her bed – to protect her from creepy crawlies. Estella Kyriacou, 25, grew up terrified of arachnids and was horrified when she saw one in ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Much of the fear people feel toward spiders is due to misinformation largely spread through the internet. In reality, spiders are beneficial to us, according to research conducted by more than 60 ...

Fear of spiders is the biggest phobia among young people, a survey has revealed. Aversion to spiders - or arachnophobia - topped the list of fears in a study of nearly 2,000 people aged 18-30 by ...

Discover how spiders use their eight legs and eyes to spin webs and hunt insects in this KS1 Science video on types of animals for primary schools.