Pa. man burns down 4 homes after setting fires to kill spiders, police say
Police in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania are looking for a man who they say set multiple fires to deal with spiders.
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Police in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania are looking for a man who they say set multiple fires to deal with spiders.
Joro spiders can lay up to 500 eggs in a single sac and can parachute themselves "tens to hundreds of miles" away through the sky. These photos show where they've landed so far.
They're big, they're scary-looking and they float through the air — but Joro spiders are also among the "shyest" spiders researchers have ever found.
"It is a matter of when, not if" the spiders are set to arrive, experts say, and it could happen any day now.
An Indiana boat builder found a very scary-looking guest checking out his work recently: a giant six-inch spider that can apparently walk on water.
The record-breaking arachnid was 15 years older than any other spider scientists have found.
A California man reportedly set his apartment on fire while trying to kill a wolf spider with a torch lighter.
A driver in Portland Oregon crashed their car after a spider dropped from the rear view mirror, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
The automaker says spider webs can clog a fuel vapor vent hose in some 2010 to 2013 Kizashi cars, cutting off air flow.
