The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an ...

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Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider--it mysteriously can spend much of the night... Why Jumping Spiders Spend All Night Hanging Out — ...

It’s a quiet autumn evening. You’re enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider ( ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big eyes to spot prey so that they can pounce, can spend a lot of the night just hanging around—literally. The gorilla jumping spider, Evarcha arcuata, ...

The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an arachnophobe. For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel.