Alaska has no established native populations of medically significant spiders, making it one of the safest U.S. states for arachnophobes. Wolf spiders are Alaska’s most commonly encountered large ...

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline of pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. University of Alaska Fairbanks’ ...

Technically, all spiders are at least slightly venomous. However, the vast majority of species in the United States are not considered medically significant. Most cases of spider bites that require ...