A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

Learn more about a parasitic spider mite discovered in Brazil, the second of the genus ever described.

It can be pretty scary finding any sort of spider in your bath but imagine coming across one that has a leg span of 12 inches ...

What should be done with shipping containers that venomous spiders hitched a ride in from South America? We first told you about the discovery of the Brazilian wandering spider last week. The spider’s ...

Like something straight out of The Last of Us, scientists have found a parasitic fungus in Brazil that attacks trapdoor spiders, The Guardian reports. It is not clear yet whether the fungus takes ...

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

The parasitic mites were found on juvenile arachnids in the Butantan Institute collection. The larvae of Araneothrombium ...