Bugs: Spiders

Email prank warns of deadly South American "Blush Spiders" (scientific name: Arachnius gluteus, or "Butt Spider") migrating to the U.S. in airliner bathrooms and lurking under public toilet seats everywhere.

Recycled email hoax warns of the dangers of the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), purportedly a poisonous spider from Indonesia that hides under toilet seats and is responsible for the deaths of five people in North Florida.

Emailed pictures purport to show the progressive deterioration of a necrotic wound caused by the bite of a poisonous brown recluse spider.

Emailed photo taken by U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq shows a pair of huge, scary-looking arachnids known as camel spiders. Is it true the venom of a camel spider is deadly to human beings?

Can spider eggs hatch inside a person's body? Here are two variants of an urban legend about a truly horrible infestation!

They thought it strange when their brand-new cactus began to quiver.

Cautionary tale about the dangers of not washing one's hair.