Matt Bertone is an entomologist; in other words, a person who studies insects. He and his team conducted a visual survey of ...

For many, spiders ... from the surveyed North Carolina homes. These included cellar spiders and cobweb spiders (yes, cobweb ...

There are nearly 3,000 spider species in North America alone, making identifying a common house spider difficult. Is it just a harmless little guy? Or a venomous predator waiting to pounce?