Yes, spiders sleep. Sleeping behavior is very noticeable in jumping spider species that dangle from their silk at night. Experts can tell spiders are "sleeping" based on a series of body twitches that ...

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As the temperatures drop, you may notice some extra visitors in your home - of the eight-legged variety. Whether you’re a friend of spiders or foe, the idea of spiders near the space we sleep can be ...

You've heard about this swallowing spiders while you sleep thing right? And supposedly it's just part of sleeping. Ewwwwwww! Chalk this up as something I just don't want to know. Except, how true it ...

The claim sounds precise enough to pass as true. Eight spiders a year, eaten while asleep. It’s the kind of fact people insist they picked up in school or heard repeated often enough to trust. The ...

Is any urban legend more shudder inducing than the one about humans swallowing an average of eight spiders a year in their sleep? The idea of unwittingly ingesting eight-legged interlopers is ...