As a recovered arachnophobe, I am very familiar with many of the ridiculous spider myths. Spider myths can stem from their appearance, nighttime habits, and the fact that some of them are venomous. To ...

I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral scare line, not as a finding from sleep labs or arachnology research. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spiders are fascinating for so many reasons, but can their behaviour actually predict the weather? I spoke to Catherine Scott, ...