It wasn’t until she took an arachnology class in college, at West Texas A&M, that she really fell in love with spiders. In the early days of her graduate research, she saw parasitoid wasps hatch ...

POLK COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - Recent warm weather and rain in East Texas may be inviting unwanted ... black widow I’ve ever seen.” Black widow spiders are jet black with a red hourglass pattern.

(NEXSTAR) — As the onset of summer nears, so too do warmer temperatures and mating season for many of the nearly 900 spider species in Texas. Even though you’re unlikely to cross paths with ...

“There is usually a rise in activity in the fall, when the temperatures become more tolerable,” says Valerie Bugh, author of the quick-reference guide Spiders of Texas. According to Taylor ...

“This is the friendliest group of people that you’re going to find. Yeah, if you’re not looking to get tattooed, we have giveaways, we’ve got live music going on. We’ve got a little bit ...

She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor ... will potentially be seen on the East Coast sometime this year. The spiders, native to Asia, were first spotted in Georgia ...

Research also found Joro spiders are more likely to move north from its current range on the east coast — not west toward Texas.

Research from the University of Georgia also suggests that the spiders can survive in cooler areas and could eventually appear in many states along the East Coast. Still, “there’s no way to ...