Meet one of Europe’s largest spiders — the South Russian Tarantula. Despite its fearsome appearance, this ground-dwelling hunter is shy and rarely seen. Watch it emerge from its burrow and explore the ...

They may creep some of us out (and you can bet that us includes yours truly), but we’ve all got our own little spot in the world, right? Anyway, I recently discovered that there may be a difference ...

Joaquin Ortega-Escobar, Miguel A. Ruiz. Role of the different eyes in the visual odometry in the wolf spider Lycosa tarantula (Araneae, Lycosidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology , 2017; 220 ...

Some of the larger species can even take down a small lizard or frog. Wolf spiders may be tough hunters, but they’re not without predators, including some species of hunting wasps. The wasp paralyzes ...

2. The Word 'Tarantula' Has a Strange Origin . The first spider to be called a "tarantula" was actually a type of wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, which is not a member of the family Theraphosidae ...

Spiders are a common nuisance found worldwide. They come from the arachnid family. There are more than 37,000 species of spiders found around the world. Some, such as the common house spider, are ...

During the 16th and 17th centuries it was believed that a bite from a species of wolf spider (named “tarantula,” found in the Taranto region of Italy) would be fatal unless the victim engaged in ...

I recognized the hole as belonging to a wolf spider. There are about 50 species of wolf spiders indigenous to ... Some people say these hairy spiders remind them of a partially grown tarantula.