Mitchell County Rep. Ralph Hise has introduced a bill that proposes naming the Linville Caverns spider the official spider of North Carolina. While web spiders can be found throughout the country ...

There's an official dog, an official flower and even an official beverage. But students in a first-grade class in North Carolina think a spider should be in the group of special state symbols.

Large, yellow spiders not native to the United States have been spotted just south of North Carolina. The joro spider is native to Korea, Taiwan and China. But in 2013 scientists found it living ...

The further south you go, the bigger the bugs. Heat has a dramatic effect on the growth rate of some species, and North ...

Large, yellow spiders not native to the United States have been spotted just south of North Carolina. The joro spider is native to Korea, Taiwan and China. But in 2013 scientists found it living ...

False widow spider (credit: North Carolina State Parks) The brown recluse and black widow may be the deadliest spiders in NC. However, they aren’t the only venomous spiders in the state.

First documented in Georgia in 2013, Joro spiders have now been reported in South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, and Virginia. New sightings are popping up in Maryland, West ...

A new exhibit is ‘crawling’ in to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Skip to content. FOX8 WGHP. Greensboro 59 ...

There are many spiders in North & South Carolina, but only two are dangerous: the black widow and the brown recluse. How to spot them, where they hang out and more.

Since then, the spiders − which can grow up to 4 inches in length − have spread to states including Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, according to researchers at the ...

The Carolina wolf spider (Hogna carolinensis) is the Palmetto State’s selected spider species representative and is the largest species of wolf spider in North America. It is also one of the ...

Similar to tarantulas, the Carolina wolf spider will dig an underground burrow for their habitat rather than spin a web like most spiders. Unlike most spiders that catch their prey in webs ...