Concerns of venomous, palm-sized spiders landing in New York and other east coast cities has captured the worried attention of some arachnophobes in recent days, as headlines suggest they could be ...

Giant black and yellow spiders the size of a human hand are due to arrive in northeastern US states this summer, including New Jersey and New York. Jorō spiders are an invasive species that ...

Ramírez-Garofalo, an ecologist at Rutgers University's Lockwood Lab, told the Staten Island Advance in April 2024 that "it is a matter of when, not if," the spiders make their way to New York and ...