Mothballs only help prevent spiders by keeping one of their food sources (moths) away. Here's how experts actually recommend ...

If Miss Muffet in the children’s nursery rhyme had known more about garden spiders, she might not have been so frightened. Spiders are beneficial garden inhabitants that are much more interested in ...

The way gardeners view insects has come a long way in the past few decades. The importance of pollinators and the natural pest control provided by beneficial insects is increasingly recognized as many ...

Although many people have a built-in aversion to them, spiders rank as one of the gardener's best tools for biological pest control. They also are one of the few pest predators that don't eat plants. ...

Orb-weaver spiders produce fine threads made of nanofibers, arranged like beads on a string with puffs and intermediate zones. The spiders have an organ called a cribellum, which pushes out silk ...

Harmless black and yellow garden spiders are common in Texas landscapes and eat nothing but insects. Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers ...

At night in the forests of East Asia, fireflies glow to attract mates. But sometimes their signals are hijacked. Sheet web spiders have been caught turning these insects into unwilling accomplices, ...

There are about 2,500 kinds of spiders on the North American continent north of Mexico, and thank goodness. Without spiders, we'd be overrun with insects. It is estimated that each year the world's ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The next time you see a spider crawling around your house, look at the bright side. It’s probably feasting on a bunch of other insects and providing you with free pest control. A new study released on ...