Today's Bug of the Week fits perfectly with Halloween. It is creepy, crawly, scary looking and packs one heck of a bite.

The redback spider's scientific name: The redback spider is one of the most well-known spiders in Australia because of the red stripe on its back. The redback spider is known by its common name, but ...

Sightings of potentially deadly redback spiders have prompted a safety warning for visitors to the Osaka Kansai Expo in Japan. The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition said nearly 70 ...

And yet, the idea of an actual redback spider coming to nest in Eric Adams’ New York is so terrifying to begin with that “Sting” doesn’t have much to gain from its extraterrestrial twist. As a ...

A woman has found a deadly, venomous spider and its egg sac lurking in a box of grapes in Australia. After buying the grapes from a Coles supermarket, New South Wales resident Natasha Thomson opened ...

Australian redback spiders sniff out how much competition they have for females as they're growing up, and tailor their adult size accordingly, say Canadian researchers. Michael Kasumovic and Dr ...