Big and scary-looking Joro spiders have spread from Asia to the southern United States and are now poised to colonize the country's cooler climes—but they're nothing to fear and might end up actually helping local ecosystems. That's according to scientists who have been studying the arachnid invaders since they first arrived in Georgia around 2013.

It’s bedtime at Arlo the Owl’s tree! Little Arlo sometimes needs a bit of help getting to sleep, but Lucas’ thoughtful lullaby may not do the trick.

That’s so Findley! Lucas is so excited for you to meet his friend Findley the Fly who loves to laugh, eat, and play with Lucas.

The sticky silk threads of spider webs may be hiding a toxic secret: potent neurotoxins that paralyze a spider’s prey.

Susie Torres noticed a slight pain in her ear Tuesday morning. It was a venomous – but harmless – brown recluse spider.

Oh boy, it sure is hot outside! How does a spider keep cool in the summer?

Summer is here! Lucas and his friend found a new toy to play with - if only they could get it to stay still!

Where could the egg have possibly gone? I'm sure Lucas and his friend will get to the bottom of it!

Just when you thought spiders couldn't get any more terrifying.

Lucas and his friend are finding the strangest eggs… Happy Easter!

This is the first video documentation of a large mygalomorph spider preying on an opossum. While surveying in northern Peru, a team of scientists from University of Michigan found a tarantula dragging a young opossum along the ground. The team was studying interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest. The study found that arthropod predations accounted for a surprising amount of mortality amongst Amazonian vertebrates.

Lucas the Spider has a hard time making friends but that doesn't stop him from trying!

Parasites that control the behavior of their hosts for their own benefit are a well-documented natural phenomenon, but the discovery of a previously unknown relationship between a parasitic wasp and a social spider is particularly upsetting.

Just as Lucas the Spider had started to lose all hope for a new friend, his bell started ringing! Who could it be?! Follow Lucas's exciting new adventure to find out!

A sprawling study of spiders across northern Canada has turned up more than 100 species in provinces or territories where they had never before been recorded. The findings, by researchers from McGill University, provide a valuable new benchmark for monitoring biodiversity across Canada’s vast northern expanses. Using traps to sample 12 selected sites from Labrador to the Northwest Territories, McGill PhD student Sarah Loboda and Prof. Chris Buddle collected 23,000 adult spiders representing more than 300 species.

Lucas has been waiting all day and night for a new friend to fly in his web. No sign of anyone yet...It's getting late and Lucas found book of scary stories to keep him entertained!

Dozens of new creepy crawlies have been discovered on Queensland's Cooloola Coast in the space of one weekend, and scientists believe there are many more out there waiting to be found. The thought of 37 new spider species might send shivers down most people's spines, but for spider expert Robert Whyte, it is exciting.

Lucas isn't about to let a little adversity get him down. For him, anything is possible!

If Lucas can become the world's most musical spider, then anything is possible!