When it comes to lists of common phobias, arachnophobia – the fear of spiders – almost always makes the top ten, and more often than not, the top five. Some have even argued that the fear of spiders, like the fear of snakes, is an innate fear – people are simply born with it thanks […]
Originally published to noteworthy acclaim in 2017, “Britain’s Spiders” from the Princeton University Press WILDGuides series has now been fully revised and updated into a second edition by the authorial team of Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford, and Helen Smith.
As the temperatures turn cooler here in the northern hemisphere, I’ve begun to receive an increased number of communications regarding the identities of spiders that were recently noticed in someone’s house. They’ve likely always been there, of course – spiders that commonly live out-of-doors don’t generally seasonally migrate indoors as autumn approaches, it’s just that […]
To anyone with even a small amount of arachnophobia, an oversized cover image of a leaping (flying? can they fly???) Phidippus apacheanus, the Apache Jumping Spider, may not be the greatest incentive to pick up a copy of Jillian Cowles new Amazing Arachnids – and yes, true to their name, they can jump.