Spiders

Watch: It's raining spiders in Brazil

The 'rain of spiders' was filmed in Santo Antonio da Platina by a local resident Erick Reis. ...  

U2's Bono gets spider species named after him

Three dozen new species of the trapdoor spider have been identified,three of them from Joshua Tree National Park. ...  

When spiders forced Halle Berry out of her house

Los Angeles: Actress Halle Berry was forced to move out of her Hollywood home after a gardener found a colony of black widow spiders under a lawn chair in her pool area. The Oscar-winning star says she freaked out when she realised the poisonous spiders were living beneath a chair she used every other day and left the house until they had been destroyed. "(There were) hundreds under this lawn...  

Fear of spiders, snakes acquired

Washington: We aren't born afraid of spiders and snakes, but we can pick up these fears very quickly as infants, scientists say. Arne Ohman at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Susan Mineka from Northwestern University, US, have studied how infants and toddlers react to scary objects, the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science reports. In one set of experiments, they showed infants as young as seven months old two...