Real spiders

Queensland, Australia resident Lauren Ansell was cooking dinner with her boyfriend the other night when an unexpected visitor turned their quiet evening into a night of terror. It was a huntsman spider, a horrifying dinner plate-sized beast, and he wasn't in the mood for any funny business.

Black Widow Spider (Latrodectus mactans). Potentially fatal. Range: warm regions of USA

Many people have a fear of spiders—arachnophobia. Let's be real. A creepy-crawly with multiple eyes and legs that can appear out of nowhere is enough to give anyone the heebie-jeebies.

A photograph purportedly showing a 'Giant Hawaiian Cane Spider' on the side of a house is just a picture of an ordinary wolf spider.

As creepy as they can be.... spiders are really beautiful if you think about it. Ok, so I'm sure some of you aren't buy'n it. Well here is a spider, who's beauty no one can deny! He's so cute This is a fun easy project. Perfect for a mellow rainy day, drink a cup of coffee, crafty craft kind of afternoon. So here is what I used. 24 gauge wire round nose pliers flat nose pliers wire cutters bugle beads seed beads 1 oval bead, about 1" long didn't have the flat nose in this pic, sorry Measure…

Labyrinth spider {Agelena labyrinthica} waiting in funnel web for prey. Nordtirol, Tirol, Austrian Alps, Austria, 1700 metres altitude, July.

Wolf spiders don't fit the traditional spider archetype. They don't spin webs and don't catch their prey in them; instead, they stalk and hunt their prey - just as wolves do. Although it's true that wolf spiders look very similar to...

Who has the creepiest crawlies? The north, or the south? There's only one way to find out...