Boston's first giant hand-sized jumping spider spotted - on Beacon Hill

By adamg - 9/25/24 - 8:53 pm

NBC Boston reports a yellow-striped Joro jumping spider, which could grow to the size of a human hand, has been spotted on Mt. Vernon Street on Beacon Hill, near the Common. The station sent out a fearless reporting team, which managed to get out a dispatch: Read more.

Today's pressing spider question

By adamg - 11/7/15 - 10:18 am

Patty asks:

Anyone able to identify this spider that built a web across my front window? Should I move?

His favorite arachnid

By adamg - 10/16/10 - 11:07 am

Jef Taylor shows us a Phiddippus audax:

Spider babies

By adamg - 5/31/06 - 4:48 pm

Charlotte's Web or Arachnophobia? You decide.