I’ve never been a huge celebrator of Halloween. My daughter-in-law, on the other hand, is going all out this year with enormous spider webs, giant spiders, and various skeletons shrouded in webbing, ...

My photo here shows a female wolf spider with recently hatched babies clinging to her. They will ride on her abdomen for a few days until they become too big to ride. Often a sudden disturbance will ...

At first glance, it looked like a large spider resting on the ground—but a closer look revealed dozens of tiny spiderlings ...

The scary-looking, ominously-named wolf spider is actually a beneficial insect. Wolf spiders belong to the class Arachnida and are members of the family Lycosidae (derived from the Greek word lycos, ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...

The female wolf spiders wrap their eggs in silk to create a sac. They now carry the egg sacs until they hatch. What?! This is creepy as hell. A man in Australia tried to kill a spider he found in his ...

A female wolf spider emerges from a burrow with dozens of spiderlings carried on her back. The image highlights a rarely seen moment of parental care in the natural world.