Concerns of venomous, palm-sized spiders landing in New York and other east coast cities has captured the worried attention of some arachnophobes in recent days, as headlines suggest they could be ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently ...

Ramírez-Garofalo, an ecologist at Rutgers University's Lockwood Lab, told the Staten Island Advance in April 2024 that "it is a matter of when, not if," the spiders make their way to New York and ...