A not so itsy-bitsy spider bugs the pope in Prague

President Barack Obama had his fly. Now Pope Benedict XVI has his spider.

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Experts: Spider found at grocery likely not lethal

A spider found in a Tulsa grocery store might not have been as deadly as initially thought.

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Colombian students learn to get cozy with spiders

The creepy and crawly can be good for you — at least that's the message that Dario Gutierrez preaches to sometimes squeamish students in Colombian schools.

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Teen trying to burn spiders sets home on fire

Fire investigators have come up with an unusual cause of a blaze that damaged a home in Reno — spider killing. Reno Fire Battalion Chief Rick Kajans said a teenager was using fire to try to kill spiders Sunday afternoon when he accidentally set a fence on fire that then also burned part of his home on Neil Road.

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Experts: Spiders Spin Giant Web in Texas

A variety of spider species built on one another's work to create a sprawling web that blanketed hundreds of yards of trees and shrubs at a North Texas park, according to entomologists who studied the unusual formation.

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Doctor Finds Spiders in Boy's Ear

These guys weren't exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear — "like Rice Krispies" — ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

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Spider Bite Turns Serious for Ore. Woman

A small spider bite turned out to be a big problem for Cindy Pettey. Pettey awoke when she was bitten on the stomach in the middle of the night a few weeks ago, but thought little else of it. Then she started running a fever, she felt achy and weak. The bite sore became larger.

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Spider Causes Man to Lose Control of SUV

A Levant man told police he lost control of his 2003 Lincoln Navigator after he was startled by a spider on Wednesday morning.

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Study Says Spider Web Developed Just Once

Will you walk into my parlor, said a Cretaceous spider to an ancient fly. The classic spider's web, like Charlotte would have woven, was invented just once, way back in the Cretaceous period some 136 million years ago, scientists report.

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French 'Spider-Man' Climbs 31-Story Tower

French skyscraper climber Alain Robert scaled a 31-floor office building outside Paris on Wednesday using only his bare hands, his last climb before spending a week in prison in Texas.

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A passenger says he spotted a tarantula crawling between his legs while sitting on a plane.

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Foreplay can be a matter of life or death for the male redback spider in a courtship ritual that appears even more demanding than previously thought.

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Each of the world's 40,000 spider species survives by hunting and killing — except, that is, for Bagheera kiplingi, the world's first vegetarian arachnid.

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In a possible affront to its fierce meat-eating relatives, one jumping spider prefers to dine vegetarian, munching on specialized leaf-tips of acacia shrubs, finds a new study.

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American scientists have discovers a spider that feeds almost exclusively on plant food. The findings are significant because of the known approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all were thought to be strict predators. More Articles

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A British art historian has created what is believed to be the world's largest and rarest piece of cloth made entirely from golden spider silk.

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Ok -- now this is creepy, I'm sure glad the spiders here don't get this big. "Mr Shakepeare told ninemsn he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger"

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Published by R J Evans September 20, 2009, Category: Zoology Spider webs – possibly the most beautiful and intricate animal structures of the natural world. However, some spiders are not content with a simple web. They go one step further.

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A German spider specialist told the Observer newspaper he named the new species after Bowie — whose album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was a huge hit in 1972 — because he wanted to raise awareness about the discovery.

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Among connoisseurs of insect stings, it's the equivalent of Robert Parker's wine ratings. Schmidt has been stung by about 150 different species on six continents and seems to have opinions about all of them.

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SEATTLE - Everyone had high hopes when the Seattle Police Department launched its paperless system more than a year ago. But the system, nicknamed "SPIDER," has created a web of confusion. SPIDER stands for "Seattle Police Information Dispatch and Electronic Reporting."

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A VENOMOUS spider is spreading across Britain due to climate change, experts warned yesterday. The False Widow — cousin of the Black Widow — carries enough poison to kill a human. It first arrived in Devon from the Canary Islands 140 years ago.

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Scientifically, this tiny arachnid goes by the name of Theridion grallator – but it takes little imagination to see how it got its more popular name: the happy-face spider.

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A man had to be rescued by firefighters after setting the front of his house on fire while trying to kill a spider with a lighter.

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Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal.

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Scientists have found themselves raising a smile when studying this creature - the happy face spider.

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The ladybird spider has been dragged back from the point of extinction in Britain, naturalists claim.

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Eight Legged Hostage Taker

I am being held hostage in my own apartment by someone maybe 1/1000th the size of myself. Someone with eight eyes, eight legs and a creepy demeanor.

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Forget about crawling. A spider discovered in the Sahara Desert moves by doing a series of hand springs across the sand -- and travels surprisingly fast. Bionics experts think the method could be used for future Mars explorer vehicles.

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Spiders are amazingly sophisticated animals, and probably the premiere complex adaptation of modern spiders is the ability to spin silk.

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It might look like something out of a James Bond film but this is could be the ocean cruiser of the future. The WAM-V, or Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel, blasts along on two giant inflatable tubes which, according to its designers, let it 'dance' with the waves. Powered by twin d …

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Many people, especially now, will have troubles paying for the little extra services they use but do not need. People will deal with it in different ways, this guy tried to pay off his debt with a picture.

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Conservation group WWF says that more than 1,000 species new to science have been recorded in South-East Asia's Greater Mekong region over the past decade. More Articles

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Below is the complete email conversation that Adelaide man David Thorne claims he had with a utility company chasing payment of an overdue bill.

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