For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen’s affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. Tolerance turned to acceptance, and “accidentally ...

Jessiah Hahs Brinkley’s fear of spiders turned into fascination, and then infatuation. As a child, he had nightmares after smashing black widows with his grandfather in the eaves and crannies of his ...

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This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. I’m obsessed with jumping spiders. But it wasn’t always so. While never a spider hater or arachnophobe, I was pretty ambivalent about them ...

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