The prowling spiders from the Syspira genus have little in common with their pale-bodied, long-legged sac spider brethren from the shared family, Miturgidae. Instead, they display a wolf spider ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the sex ...

A large spider, but with a very small greyish body and long thin legs. They prefer the warm and constant temperatures of our homes, garages and sheds, and are rarely found outdoors as they cannot ...

Daddy long legs will even kill the dangerous black widow ... The wolf spider and yellow sac spider are two common species that do have a venomous bite, and these can typically be treated easily ...

Instead, yellow sac spiders have dark brown markings on the tips of their legs and jaws. Yellow sac spider bites can result in redness, swelling and a burning sensation on the human skin surface ...

the yellow sac spider (the only venomous spider in Germany), the feather-legged lace weaver (one of the few spiders without venom glands) and a mesothela (lived before the dinosaurs). The research ...