These web weavers have been found in shipping containers full of tropical yellow fruit, thus earning the moniker “banana spiders.” However these spiders come in all shapes and sizes, some being ...

Sheila Terry and her husband keep a Brazilian wandering spider in a baby-food jar filled with alcohol on top of their refrigerator, out of sight. The bunch of bananas the spider rode into their home ...

Brazilian wandering spiders are aggressive spiders that belong to the genus Phoneutria, which means "murderess" in Greek. These critters, also known as armed spiders or banana spiders, are some of the ...

Sheila Terry says she got more than just a bunch of bananas from her shopping trip to the Superior Walmart on Tuesday. After taking them to her home in Hayward, her husband, Dan, went to pick one when ...

A colony of the world's most venomous spiders have been found crawling over bananas bought from a supermarket, it has been reported. A mother has told of her horror after spotting "dozens" of the ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska — Nobody is quite sure where the wandering spider came from, but its travels ended Monday in a pool of alcohol. All 6-year-old Isabelle Tavares wanted Sunday night was a snack.

For men, the venom of a South American spider may be the key to more fruitful sex life. Scientists in Brazil have been testing an alternative treatment for erectile dysfunction that uses venom from ...

A British woman got an unpleasant surprise in her kitchen when she found that the world's most venomous spider had hitched a ride on a bushel of bananas she bought from her local grocery store. Maria ...

The state Dept. of Agriculture reports that a venomous spider was captured in Honolulu on Monday, April 13. According to our sister station KHON, the spider was found in a container of granite and ...