The scary-looking, ominously-named wolf spider is actually a beneficial insect. Wolf spiders belong to the class Arachnida and are members of the family Lycosidae (derived from the Greek word lycos, ...

While on a cruise Colin Blake noticed his toe turning purple. He went to the ship's doctor who told him he'd been bitten by a wolf spider Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE ...

A species of wolf spider. These arachnids probably don’t lay eggs in people’s toes, experts say—probably. Image: Katarina Christenson (Shutterstock) Just in case you needed a new fear to keep you ...

A British man’s wedding anniversary spun out of control when a Peruvian wolf spider bit him and laid eggs in his toe — with a baby hatching inside and “eating its way out.” Colin Blake and his wife ...

(CNN) – Here is a mystery that is sure to give you the heebie-jeebies – did a spider lay eggs in a man’s big toe? Colin Blake, a man from England, said it happened to him. Blake and his wife were ...

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You know those nightmares where you kill a spider and suddenly dozens more appear? That nightmare was real for these people. YouTube user Danny Ford wrote that he spotted the massive wolf spider ...

Have you ever wondered what some of the largest spiders in South Carolina might look like? If you haven’t before, you might be curious now. A nursery rhyme that kept waking a woman up at night in ...

Can you imagine coming face-to-face with the largest tarantula in the world? This massive arachnid is the king of creepy ...

When Colin Blake noticed his toe turn purple and start to swell, he knew something was wrong. Blake, who's from Cramlington, Northumberland, told BBC that he first noticed his toe changed color while ...