Many love the taste and smell of the banana, but there is one critter found around South Carolina donning the colorful fruit’s name that you might want to avoid. The banana spider. This arachnid is a ...

An invasive species of spider that arrived in South Carolina in recent years has spread fast and gotten a foothold in the Southeast, a new Clemson University study shows. The Joro spider from Asia has ...

The first time David Coyle saw a Jorō spider outside his house in 2020, he recognized it immediately. The bluish-green bands across its thick yellow abdomen made the critter easily identifiable. At ...

Being inconspicuous might seem the best strategy for spiders to catch potential prey in their webs, but many orb-web spiders, which hunt in this way, are brightly colored. New research finds their ...